From After Effects to Premier
by Nathaniel Marten
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Jun 26, 2008 at 5:04:20 pm
I took an avi file created in Premier Pro and added effects to it in After Effects 6.5. I've pre-rendered that video to QT animation codec and then exported it to an avi. Quicktime plays it flawlessly, Windows Media Player plays it flawlessly but the video is completely distored when I import it back into Pro for further editing. It seems to work in the tiny box which previews the clip, but when it's placed in the timeline only audio works. Sometimes I get no video at all. What's happening? Help would be greatly appreciated.
Re: From After Effects to Premier by Dave LaRonde on Jun 26, 2008 at 5:21:38 pm
[Nathaniel Marten]"the video is completely distored when I import it back into Pro for further editing. "
Can you be more specific? Are the colors bad, is the video squeezed horizontally/vertically, does it contain noise, is the interlacing off, is it HDV, etc.?
If you're on a Windows box and you have a nice array of codecs, why did you turn it into a quicktime? It shouldn't be necessary. The only reason I can think to do so is because you need an alpha channel, and none of your codecs support alpha channels.
Dave LaRonde
Sr. Promotion Producer
KCRG-TV (ABC) Cedar Rapids, IA
Re: From After Effects to Premier by Nathaniel Marten on Jun 26, 2008 at 7:05:48 pm
Hi thanks for responding.
When placed in the premier timeline there actually is no video at all. It's a black screen with a flicker of noise every now and then. I have another editing program called Studio 11 which I tried just to see if it would open. In Studio the video was visable though very messy. I'm not sure the exact terminology. It was kind of a jumbled mess; it looked scattered and wrongly rearranged. Maybe the interlacing was extrememely off.
We used a QT codec because a previous poster had adviced us to do so. Before that it wouldn't even open in Media Player.
If it does have to do with an alpha channel what kind of codec do I need?
Thanks again.
Re: From After Effects to Premier by Nathaniel Marten on Jun 26, 2008 at 7:30:21 pm
Hi, sorry for not specifying.
This particular video isn't actually captured footage at all. When I do capture from my camera it's DV. This however, is an animation using jpeg images. It was partly done in Premier and then part in After effetcs, and now I'm planning to add it to an existing Premier project. It does not need to be rendered in Pemier in order to see it.
Thanks.
Re: From After Effects to Premier by Dave LaRonde on Jun 27, 2008 at 4:42:18 pm
I still think that since you're on a Windows box, you ought to RENDER (don't export)an AVI, using a codec that you know works in Premiere. I'm a Mac guy, and my knowledge of the Windows World is pretty sketchy.
Dave LaRonde
Sr. Promotion Producer
KCRG-TV (ABC) Cedar Rapids, IA
