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AndrewTheGreat
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November 25, 2022
Question

How to make Rotobrush work when Composition is exported from Premiere Pro?

  • November 25, 2022
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Hi,  I've been having this issue for quite a long time in different versions of After Effects and Premiere Pro. I have a footage edited in Premiere Pro, say it's an iPhone clip in which I need to isolate a person from the background. What normally I do: I choose "Replace with After Effects composition" from the context meny of the clip, then AE opens and I open the clip monitor and choose the rotobrush and do the job. Now and then, and recently it's happening every time, when I try using the rotobrush tool on the clip in AE, tho whole image is selected, not the person or object. No matter how I draw on the image, AE selects the whole image. If I fallow the advice AE gives me - "Framerate mismatch. Set the framerate of the sequence the same as the clip" the problem disappears - I can draw with the rotobrush tool and it selects the object or person I draw on. But since the framerate is changed, when I go back to Premiere Pro with the isolated person there's a mismatch in its framerate amd the PP sequence framrerate resulting in a different  "speed" of the isolated material. How can I cope with it and why cannot AE work with PP's settings since they are linked?

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Mylenium
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November 25, 2022

It's simply a bad workflow. Rotobrush in AE with the native framerate, pre-compose, time-stretch/ time-remap in AE. You're making this unnecessarily complicated.

 

Mylenium

AndrewTheGreat
Known Participant
November 26, 2022

You dont't get it. Why do you think it's a bad workflow? I need a short clip out of all the footage edited in PP rotobrushed in Ae. That's just it. If I work in Ae alone, sure I shall precompose, timestretch and so on, but the main editing is done inb PP and it's just a small clip I need to isolate a person from the background in. For such small edits (literally 3,5 secs) Adobe introduced the dynamic link feature to quickly jump into Ae from PP, make all the necessary things there PP cannot do, and jump back. This feature gives me some inconveniences I mentioned above. What you suggest is use Ae alone.