Format question

[RED ROBOT]

Hi folks .


I am currently editing my film and I am using After Effects CS5.5 for color grading and VFX and Adobe Premiere for editing.

I am UNABLE to use dynamic link between both.


Now , if I edit the movie in adobe premiere , then I export the clips to after effects for color grading then I export them back to premiere for the edit and then I export them yet again for the final version.

Now it seems to be that I will lose a crap load of quality so what is the way of doing it?

Usually I just firstly color grade my shots then export them into premiere and edit the movie together but this is all for 4-5 minute pieces , now I'm working on a film that is about 15 minutes.

What is the way to go?

 

[Will Vincent]

To minimize quality loss in that instance, I would probably export to some uncompressed, or very lightly compressed still image sequence instead of a video file format.

TIFF is probably a good choice

 

[PaulGriffith]

First, even without Dynamic link you should be able to cut clips from Premiere and paste into after effects.

But you can export uncompressed or very light compression from both programs. A 90-100% JOG sequence, uncompressed QuickTime or even ProRes 444 or 422 HQ will probably do you fine. Is it for internet distribution? You can probably get away with a little more compression even.