Help! Exporting for After Effects

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UnrulyFellows

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Not sure if I should have posted on the After Effects forum or this one.

I shot in 24P A then captured in DV 24p. I export the edited clips for After Effects.

I then am getting a small blur while the footage is in After Effects that I am having a hard time getting rid of.

Can any of you just give me all of the steps/formats to get 24P A footage to keep its quality all the way to the end of exporting from after Effects?

Thanks,
 
Hi,

What are you exporting from? I'm assuming Premiere since this is the Premiere forum.

How (exact details) are you getting your footage into AE?

The easiest way would simply be to open your Premiere project in After Effects. It'll open up with all the cuts and it'll be referencing the media files directly instead of having to export to a separate file type like QUICKTIME ANIMATION.

Please provide more info and I'd be glad to help out further if you still need help.
 
Thanks for the advice. I was rendering from premiere and then opening the rendered edited file in A.E.

I like your way of opening the project. I am still getting a bit of a blur in A.E.

What else could be wrong. Do i need to INTERPRET FOOTAGE? What settings?
Thanks
 
It could possibly be interlacing.

See if you can get AE to Guess the pulldown. There's a button for it in the interpret footage menu.

It should be able to guess the 24pa pulldown and remove it.
 
If you have a Creative Suite (esp. 3 or 4), there's really no need to render. In CS3, you can open your Premiere project in AE; in CS4, you can do even better -- select the clips, right-click, and choose "Replace with After Effects Composition." No rendering needed in either case. The better way to go, especially with a highly-compressed format like DV.
 
Another quick tip for CS4 --

If you do the "Replace with After Effects Comp" method, and you want to keep the original edit just in case (I do this, cuz you never know), then copy the video track(s) and paste it above the original in the timeline. Then click "Replace with After Effects Comp."

I do this because once you replace it with the AE comp, it combines all clips into one long "clip" in the Premiere timeline. Of course, you can change the edit in AE, but that can be a pain in the bum, so I keep another copy of the video on other video tracks, or duplicate the sequence entirely and name it something like, "SEQUENCE1a," just to keep another copy cuz you never know if you need to go back to it.

Hope that helps.
 
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