vegas and premier

adihead wrote on 10/27/2003, 3:29 PM
i worked a bit with premier before moving to vegas just a short while ago. since premiere and after effects are both adobe products, they worked well with one another and i was able to work on premiere projects, using after effects, without first rendering the project. i would just open the premier project as is with after effects, do whatever i needed to be done, and then go back and continue editing on premier. i imagine that this would not be possible with vegas projects. am i right? do i have to render my vegas project before opening it with after effects?

oh... i left out the fact that i'm using vegas 4.0

thanks

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BrianStanding wrote on 10/27/2003, 3:35 PM
Going from Vegas to After Effects is easy. A frequent contributor to this forum, Satish, has built a frameserver plug-in that allows you to save the Vegas timeline to a dummy .avi file that After Effects can read. Basically, it means you can transport your Vegas timeline into After Effects with no rendering, just as you can with Premiere and AE. You can download the free plug in from:
http://www.debugmode.com/pluginpac/

Going from After Effects to Vegas requires you to render out a (real, not a dummy) media file. Unfortunately, the Sonic Foundry/Sony DV codec is not available to After Effects, so you'll have to pick another codec. Most people use uncompressed video to avoid recompression errors.
filmy wrote on 10/27/2003, 6:15 PM
As the resident Adobe user here I'll answer this. :)

Satish makes a free plug-in for both VV and Premiere that allows you to frame serve. He mentioned he was working on one for AE as well but I have heard nothing more on this. So all you have to do in install the plug-in to VV and when you export choose the frame server. Open up AE (You must keep VV open) and import the dummy *.avi file.

The downside to all of this is that you can not open up a VV project in AE. To me this isn't really a downside because I look at AE as a compositing tool and/or an effect tool - not a NLE. So I normally would not be loading an enitre project into AE unless it was to do a film look color correction on the entire piece. As for output, as long as it is 30i or 30p and not 24p, you can Main Concept DV. Many people use uncompressed. I use Main Concept DV.

But!!! If you must load an entire VV project into AE I just found a very nifty plug-in that will allow for a basic cuts only type of project to be loaded via, of all things, an exported VV EDL. *gasp* I too was suprised to find this. http://www.forgedimages.com/vegasimportorder.html