Having some Trouble....

Donald Harvey

Donald Harvey

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There are three things that I am having trouble with, this seems to be the best place to ask these questions!

1.) How do I transfer my project file in After Effects back into Adobe Premiere project. I do all my effects and then I want to bring it back into premiere to export it at it's highest quality...

2.) Is After Effects just as good as premiere in exporting a movie? If so, what is the method to make After Effects export my composition into a high quality movie, or just the best quality I can get. I seem to be having trouble trying to figure it out.

3.) I forgot my third...doh...

Anyway thanks for the help! Much appreciated!
 
You can Export a Movie equally well from AEFX or Premiere.

Which method depends as little on your workflow.

If you have completely finished everything (including Audio) in AEFX, no reason not to export directly from there.

If still editing in Premiere and you want to bring back some FX clips from AEFX, export a lossless avi or QT (maybe with alpha). This is an intermediate type workflow.


You could also do all this using Dynamic Link where the Premiere Project and the AEFX Project are linked so as changes made in one/either...reflect in the other.
 
As I recall you can put an after effects comp directly into your timeline in premiere, so you would skip the extra rendering step that way, though to be able to watch it (especially if there's a bunch of work going on in that AE comp) in smooth motion you'll probably have to render that segment first.

I think your best bet would be to export a tiff image sequence from AE, and import that into premiere.. that will give you the same benefit as working with uncompressed video, but I think it plays back better.

Shooter is right though, there really is no reason not to export from AE if you're finished editing. It is actually possible to get better quality out of AE, because you can put your comps into 32bit colorspace...
 
And if you do decide to export directly from After Effects when you're done:
Export your footage as an uncompressed setting and keeping all other settings the same.
 
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