Best Way to Use Vegas with After Effects

MarcS wrote on 1/10/2005, 9:09 AM
I was wonderining whether those that use AE6.5 regulary with Vegas can give me some pointers on the best way to use the programs together efficiently? I typically do my cutting and editing in Vegas and then, if there are some clips I want to give particular special filter treatment, I'll select each one and then render the clips indiviually (without comporession) for reimportation into AE. I then put each clip in it's new composition, apply the filters I want, and then render them back out (without compression) back to Vegas where I paste them back into their original place in the timeline. Of course, Vegas itself must recompress the AE uncompressed clips to play them in realtime.

The process can be cumbersome and I wish the programs were better integrated. If anyone has ideas on how to use them more efficiently together I'd be interested.

- MarcS

Comments

Coursedesign wrote on 1/10/2005, 10:07 AM
Do a search in this forum, it has been covered many times.
rmack350 wrote on 1/10/2005, 10:10 AM
The only thing I have to add to it is that there's a difference in how Vegas plays uncompressed with and without alpha. I think it plays better with alpha if memory serves me right. Of course the files are a lot bigger with alpha.

Rob Mack
filmy wrote on 1/10/2005, 10:16 AM
I wish Satish would return to his attempt at making a AE plug adapter for Vegas. RedGL came out and sort of seemed to kill that.

I am leaning towards Premiere/AE because they work so well together anymore. But options I have used are frame serving from from Vegas to AE. The issue is getting back ot Vegas, although really adding the filtering should be maybe the last step.

The other option is getting RedGL and using that to interface for the AE plugs. Some work, some don't. It is trial and error.
MarcS wrote on 1/10/2005, 10:49 AM
I agree that the copying/pasting compatabilities between AE and PPRo are very nice as is the ability to plug in AE filters to Pro. I still prefer using Vegas but wish there were better ways to use AE with it.

- MarcS
patreb wrote on 1/10/2005, 11:40 AM
You pretty much describe the way i work with those 2 programs. It seems when teh quality if of concern it's teh best way (still beats the way Avud Xpress DV works where you have to compress uncompressed AE file when you bring it back to AVid and then recompress again when you apply color correction - 2 renders! - nightmare).