AfterEffects workflow script?

mikemo wrote on 6/13/2003, 12:33 AM

hi everyone -

We're doing a series of projects with Vegas. These projects involve a lot of shots that need to be "effected" with some of the tools unique to AfterEffects.

I was wondering if a script existed that allowed us to select a series of events on the timeline, then have them batch rendered out to a specified format in the exact length they are on the time line in. This would result in a single folder full of shots that our effects artist could work on...then we could just reimport the shots back into the timeline without missing a frame. I know we can do this one event at time with "render loop region" - but being able to select multiple, non-sequential events and render them out in a batch would be very, very helpful.

Any help or guidance would be much appreciated. Thanks!!

Mike

Comments

SonyEPM wrote on 6/13/2003, 10:22 AM

Try exporting sections of the Vegas timeline (from cut to cut, not in the middle of a transition) as a still image sequence. There are several scripts for this, .png format is preferred. Open the image sequence in AE, paint it up, resave in AE as a still image sequence of exactly the same size/type/framerate, open that up in Vegas as a new event.

Luxo wrote on 6/14/2003, 12:46 AM

As slow as the image sequence rendering scripts are, I don't think this will save a lot of time, although it would retain more image quality. It sounds like Mike wants to find a proceedure more time efficient than rendering each event one at a time.

As far as I know there's no easy solution but you should try posing the same question in the Vegas scripting forum instead of the Video forum.

You could always frameserve the video clips to AE, but that might not be feasible with your setup.

roger_74 wrote on 6/14/2003, 4:24 AM

Since Vegas scales images when saving to an image sequence it's very slow. If you frameserve to VirtualDub and save the image sequence from there, it will be very fast.

In my opinion scaling an image that is to be brought back again is a bad idea and unnecessary.