how 2create pre-keyed composite ready footage,avid to illustrator and AE workflow
by alyousha
on
May 26, 2007 at 3:20:51 pm
Hello, I done a blue screen scenes (3hours) and now I need to do two things, back up my footage as composite ready and pre keyed into DVD, and I need to figuer out a workflow technique between avid, illustrator and after effects, the footage is shot on sony z1 as HD 1080/50i (mxf i think for HD,notOMFI) I don't need to import the footage again to avid from illustrator or after effects, its a one way ticket from avid to adobe, is the solusion for the two problems is in one formate? like tga? but how. many thanks for your help.
Al
Re: how 2create pre-keyed composite ready footage,avid to illustrator and AE workflow by MHancock (promoboy) on May 29, 2007 at 7:15:20 pm
If you're just wanting to take the footage from Avid to After Effects for compositing and keying, and you're working on all of this on the same machine--capture in Avid, export as a Quicktime Reference file. It will point to the MXF on your media drives but After Effects will read it as though it's a quicktime. To take it to Illustrator, export from AE to Illustrator and back again.
If you're exporting from Avid, burning to a Data DVD, an dtaking this to another system for the AE and Illustrator work, you can export standalone quicktime files from Avid. I would do Uncompressed or the Animation codec--3 hours is a lot though. Be prepared to wait awhile for the export, export in chunks, and be ready to burn a boatload of DVDs.
You could also do Targa sequences--they play nice with AE and Illustrator, but it also takes a while to export and will take up a lot of space. Burning them to a DVD would take A LOT of DVDs, and again--you'll have to break it up into chunks. I suggest sending them to an External Drive and just taking the drive to your AE/Illustrator workstation. For the cost of all of these DVDs, you can get a decent sized External Drive. It will make your life much easier.
