Workflow from Vegas to After Effects

[Drew Ott]

http://library.creativecow.net/articles/freitag_lori/twixtor-frame-rate-conversion.php

That video shows how to easily open a Premiere Pro project in After Effects. I'm cutting my 5D footage in Sony Vegas and want to do something similar. I thought I'd be able to export XML and open in After Effects, like apparently FCP can do with CS4.

Is there any way? Otherwise I'd have to render out each tiny clip, bring to AE, render, and put back into the timeline.

If this is the only option, I'll probably end up getting Premiere just for the AE workflow.

 

[Luis_]

tough one!
I'm not familiar with XML but,
I would recommend staying with vegas though!
Premiere pro CS4 has given me lots of trouble.
If you have time I recommend visiting the adobe forums for premiere and enjoy it for your self

I've had Premiere for about 2 years and I've had vegas for about 6 months.
I'm staying with vegas.

I've had After effects for about 3 years and I rather export from vegas, do what ever I'm going to do in AE and render back out to bring it back to vegas.

My project have not been huge like a full movie or something for me to mind going back and forth.

hey by the way I just found this too: http://verstehenvideo.org/aeplugs/index.html

 

[Drew Ott]

The thing is, I'm not just processing a few clips from Vegas in After Effects. Every single 1-second clip in my 10+ minute film would need to be exported, worked on in After Effects, then brought back to Vegas.

That plugin seemed promising, but it appears it's made for interlaced footage only. It seems perfect though otherwise.

 

[Luis_]

every 1 second clip!
holy smokes batman!
yeah.... I would have to work that 10 to 15 seconds at a time depending on how powerful the system is. I don't know man... I don't know what to tell you.

 

[Efexone]

why don't you work on the clips in AE, render, and combine the final edit in vegas? seems like your working backwards.

 

[El Director]

What are you doing in AE that you can't do in Vegas?

 

[medeamajic]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj0JoFxoOyo

It is hard to beat the integration of Soundbooth, AE, Encore and Premiere. I made the switch form Edius to the CS 4 Master Collection. Edius is great but the CS 4 Master Collection is better. I was a dedicated Edius user.

 

[Drew Ott]

What are you doing in AE that you can't do in Vegas?

30p to 24p conversion with Twixtor. I hear there's a way to use Boris as a plugin with Vegas, and Boris supports Twixtor too... perhaps that could work?

 

[VideoMaker]

If your Vegas project is simple cuts only and doesn't use nesting, you can save your project as an .AAF and then import that into AE.

You can't go the other way though with .AAF. Instead, in AE you can render using the animation codec for import back into Vegas (as a clip).