MXF in After Effects

[gi-jones]

I'm shooting 1080p footage and editing on Edius.

The question is; what is the best way of getting the edited footage from Edius to After Effects. I reality I would obviously like to bring the actual mxf files in, without exporting or recompressing or anything. Is there a way to do this? How do other people get around it?

 

[Shaw]

Can Edius export an AAF file? That would probably be the quickest way and wouldn't require recompressing.

 

[Bayne]

Dump from Edius to a RAW AVI uncompressed if you can, then import to AE.

 

[THoff]

You can also use the Canopus HQ or Lossless codecs if you are running After Effects on the same machine as Edius. That would save you a great deal of disk space.

The full Canopus codec needs a Canopus editing board or the Edius software dongle, but you can download a decode-only version of the codec if you are running After Effects on a different system or need a post house to be able to work with material using the Canopus HQ/Lossless codec.

Canopus Playback Codec

 

[gi-jones]

Well, as we are talking about quite a lot of shots I would prefer not to be exporting uncompressed stuff. As I see it the ideal way would be to import the actual source files, but I guess theres no easy way of doing that. How about that AAF stuff? How exactly does that work?

 

[hvx_germanboy]

I would second the comment of THoff,

thats actually my workflow for footage that has to go through AE: import MXF to EDIUS, edit, and export via Canopus HQ(highest quality, i dont use losless right now)..then work in AE.

You even can send it back as Canopus HQ from AE if you run both programms on the same machine....!