Bruce Watson
Veteran
I asked this in the Adobe forums, but got no responses. So I'm going to post it here too hoping that someone here can help me out.
Context: I'm working on a two camera interview in Production Premium CS5. Did the standard stuff in PPro - a source sequence with both cameras, did some rough editing here (syncing the two cameras, trimming the clips, etc.). Then nested the source sequence into a multi-cam edit sequence. Used the multi-cam monitor to switch back and forth between cameras, etc. All is good.
But my editor wants to make three separate videos from this interview. So I thought the logical thing would be to nest this muiti-cam edit sequence into three separate target sequences. Then I could get the camera switching done just once, and slice-'n-dice the three target sequences to make the short-'n-sweet individual videos that make my editor happy. Did this for the first target (a single question and answer). The result looks fine in PPro, and editor approves. All that's left is adding the lower thirds.
Everything is fine until I go to export to AE via dynamic link so I can add lower thirds and finish up. What PPro sends to AE isn't just my target sequence, but it also sends the multi-cam edit sequence and the source sequence as well. But.... it ignores it all and will only show me the Acam footage (that is, the video track that's topmost in my source sequence). Bcam doesn't show up at all. What's really surprising (to me anyway) is that now PPro isn't showing the alternating cameras either. It was fine (and approved, sigh...) before I sent the clips to AE, now it's toast. Weird, that.
Three questions: First, what did I do wrong? IOW, how does one export a multi-cam edit sequence via dynamic link from PPro to AE, and have it show up in AE with the alternating camera tracks showing?
Second, how can I recover from this? Do I really have to delete my target sequence in PPro and start over (and by extension, delete the AE project also)? Is there no way to sever a dynamic link once it's made?
Third, if the answer is to render output from PPro, then import it into AE (that is, bypassing dynamic link), can someone point me to a link describing how that's done? I'm working in AVCHD and don't really want to start rendering and re-rendering because of the image degradation (like repeatedly saving a JPEG file in Photoshop), so I'm thinking this probably involves an intermediate "editing CODEC" but I've got zero experience working this way.
Context: I'm working on a two camera interview in Production Premium CS5. Did the standard stuff in PPro - a source sequence with both cameras, did some rough editing here (syncing the two cameras, trimming the clips, etc.). Then nested the source sequence into a multi-cam edit sequence. Used the multi-cam monitor to switch back and forth between cameras, etc. All is good.
But my editor wants to make three separate videos from this interview. So I thought the logical thing would be to nest this muiti-cam edit sequence into three separate target sequences. Then I could get the camera switching done just once, and slice-'n-dice the three target sequences to make the short-'n-sweet individual videos that make my editor happy. Did this for the first target (a single question and answer). The result looks fine in PPro, and editor approves. All that's left is adding the lower thirds.
Everything is fine until I go to export to AE via dynamic link so I can add lower thirds and finish up. What PPro sends to AE isn't just my target sequence, but it also sends the multi-cam edit sequence and the source sequence as well. But.... it ignores it all and will only show me the Acam footage (that is, the video track that's topmost in my source sequence). Bcam doesn't show up at all. What's really surprising (to me anyway) is that now PPro isn't showing the alternating cameras either. It was fine (and approved, sigh...) before I sent the clips to AE, now it's toast. Weird, that.
Three questions: First, what did I do wrong? IOW, how does one export a multi-cam edit sequence via dynamic link from PPro to AE, and have it show up in AE with the alternating camera tracks showing?
Second, how can I recover from this? Do I really have to delete my target sequence in PPro and start over (and by extension, delete the AE project also)? Is there no way to sever a dynamic link once it's made?
Third, if the answer is to render output from PPro, then import it into AE (that is, bypassing dynamic link), can someone point me to a link describing how that's done? I'm working in AVCHD and don't really want to start rendering and re-rendering because of the image degradation (like repeatedly saving a JPEG file in Photoshop), so I'm thinking this probably involves an intermediate "editing CODEC" but I've got zero experience working this way.
