Sony Vegas & After Effects :::

TheDeanster wrote on 9/19/2008, 6:14 PM

Hi folks, unfortunately, there are a lot of manufactures that do not support Vegas when it comes to making plugins for editing software. So after seeing some amazing plugings that I'd love to use....that are not available for Vegas, I'm thinking about buying & learning After Effects. My question is how would After Effects integrate into my workflow?

Would I for example....edit the footage in Vegas and then render out as avi and then import that into AE to use the plugins?

I'm curious to know if any of you guys use AE in your workflow and if so, what is your process!

Thanks a bunch!

-Dean

Comments

Jim H wrote on 9/19/2008, 6:25 PM

I think the flow says prep your raw vid in Vegas for AE, render as little as possible in AE, and finish project in Vegas... of course with inbetween renders in lossless format.

farss wrote on 9/19/2008, 7:29 PM

I'm just SLOWLY getting up to speed on AE Pro (the extra cost of the Pro version is money well spent). So far I've found I can open an AAF saved out of Vegas with AE. As Jim says, use lossless codecs if you need an intermediate, disk space is so cheap today it's silly to worry about file sizes even in HD.
Nothing wrong with using AE to do your final render. If one can believe what is said in so many places its render pipeline is as good as any at any price and it can render to mulitple format at once in the one pass.
I have had AE wink out on me when I really provoked it. It was gracious enough to open a dialogue box to give me one last chance to save my project. I did that, opened it again and carried on working, nice.
For me at least AE has put the fun back into this game. Checkout the tutorials from Videocopilot, I've watched a few and downloaded the projects to play with. Having fun making wierd things is a great way to learn.
Should mention Boris are giving away their Glint FX for AE. It looks kind of twee until you tweak it. They've also got their Continuum Motion Keyer on special, that could be a handy tool.

Bob.

Derm wrote on 9/20/2008, 1:43 AM

The New Blue stuff is good, I was cautious buying it but have found it useful. I also bought AE, I'm finding it to have a stiff learning curve, a lot of the workflow just hasn't clicked with me yet. I've fooled around with a few templates but I still dont get it. The Video Copilot site that Farss mentioned is certainly a great resource.

Derm