Special Effects/After Effects

shaneadkins wrote on 9/1/2003, 12:10 AM

Does anyone have any suggestions for compatible programs?

I want to be able to do some special effects, like edit out things or add things into scenes. I've looked at Pinnacle and AfterEffects by Adobe. Will these work with Vegas? Are these what I'm looking for?

Any suggestions are appreciated!

Shane

Comments

rmack350 wrote on 9/1/2003, 1:20 AM

I forget what Pinnacle's got but AEFX works fine with few caveates.

None of these compositors has hooks into Vegas. You can't put an AEFX comp on the Vegas timeline, choose "edit AEFX" from some Vegas menu, and have AEFX open up.

However, as far as I know, AEFX and Vegas can open most, if not all, of each other's rendered files. Compatibility with Vegas isn't really much of an issue. Where you could someday see an issue is with hardware solutions-like a hardware card that writes files that only one of the two programs can read. That isn't a problem right now.

There IS an issue with frame rates. Evidently AEFX sets it's rendered files frame rate at 29.97 while Vegas sets it to 29.97002997. Vegas will "correct" the file rendered by aefx by adding a frame once every 9 minutes or so. Unfortunately, the first added frame occurs early in the file so you might see a blip. I don't know if this is fixable but there is a hidden "Default Frame Rate" setting in prefs that could be set to 29.97 flat.

Hold Shift while selecting prefs in the Options menu to view the hidden tab. I'd be careful with this. The tab is hidden for a reason.

For many, the solution is to render from AEFX as a series of stills.

Rob Mack

filmy wrote on 9/1/2003, 8:47 PM

After Effects and VV play nice together overall. Currently though if you are doing 24p to be fully compatable with VV it needs to be rendered with VV. I was told by SonicDennis that currently only 24p headers created with VV or in the DVX-100 will be read correctly. This isn't just an AE issue I guess it is any program the allows for 24p DV files.

Now that may sound worse that it is - VV will read the files fine. Wht would be awesome is if Satish created a frame server plug for AE. Currently he has one for Premiere and one for VV so you can serve out of VV into AE or out of Premiere into AE or VV but not from AE to anything. I think it would be awesome to be able to utilie all the plug-ins available for AE and be able to work with VV - frame serve to AE and than *back* to another instance of VV for the render.

shaneadkins wrote on 9/3/2003, 11:05 PM

Thanks!