HDV round trip PPro AE Problems....

Hi All..

In CS3, if I use HDV on a timeline

then I try to use the any of the advanced worflow features:

Copy and paste from a PPro Timeline to an AE comp
Import PPro Sequence to AE

I have the following problem...

After Effects will create layers based on the media
The Media will be positioned and offset in the AE comp
The layers will use the right source files, BUT
It WON'T use the right frames

which essentially makes the feature useless in this workflow.

This seems to be extended into my Matrox workflows, using MPeg2I Frame HD files and Matrox DVCProHD files.

Someone had mentioned before that it's more of an AE issue as AE doesn't like media that's based on a GOP frame structure.


I wondering if this issue is resolved in the CS4 version of PPro and AE?

Or if someone could suggest an alternative workflow?

The team I'm working with would really prefer to do final tweaks to color, masking and matting in AE...

So I'm trying to employ a workflow to successfully move the PPro Sequences to AE.

The other thing to note, is that as this is a longer form project, I'm considering the extra ram of a Vista 64 configuration to be more valuable in this instance.

Your feedback and assistance is much appreciated.

Thanks,

Alex