work flow advice
by Malcolm Man
on
May 29, 2007 at 6:40:42 pm
So, I'm about to start a 60 sec commercial comprised of stills. Each still has multiple layers and will have fairly complex animation. Normally, I'd do my small after effects work and then finish the edit in Avid. However being that the entire commercial is made of stills I'm thinking of doing it in AE.
I'm also going to need to align the animation with specific music queues. So, all this said, would you attempt to do the entire project in AE? Would render issues be too much of a hassle?
I've got 4 GB RAM and a dual 5200. I'm working is SD so nothing is of huge res.
Thoughts, comments?
"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources." --Albert Einstein
Re: work flow advice by spmaloney on May 29, 2007 at 9:59:30 pm
What about working the other way around? Do a rough edit of your stills in Avid to get the timing down then export an AAF from Avid to AE. If you use only flattened images in Avid, you can then substitute the layered files for the proxies.
Re: work flow advice by malcolm man on May 29, 2007 at 11:36:24 pm
I did consider this but I don't think I would benefit or save much time from this. I don't really need to know where to cut. It's the more complex animations that I'm concerned with. I think I'll just go with AE.
Re: work flow advice by RHewitt on May 30, 2007 at 5:27:07 am
Malcolm,
Something that may be of great help is Trapcode Soundkeys. If you haven't already used it, it's a plugin that will create keyframes automatically for you by looking at the spectrum of the audio file and looking for beats or particular instruments. Works a treat and there's a demon version available.
