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Pieter Voorhout
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November 30, 2018
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Animation workflow for adding animation to long video edit

  • November 30, 2018
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I'm going to do animation for an 8 part video series. Each episode will have animations added to it. There will be some motion tracking, adding titles etc.

I was wondering what would be a clean and efficient workflow going about adding the animations to the edits? Would rendering out a ProRes file from the editor and working from that in After Effects be a good idea? I'd like to keep things as clean and simple as possible.

Important note: The edits have not been locked yet and there will be changes, how can I handle this best? I foresee some issues when the edit has been changed and I have to update the ProRes file, causing time shifts and messing up all the animation done previously..

Thanks in advance!

Regards,

Pieter

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imeilfx
imeilfx
Inspiring
November 30, 2018

If you are working full in Adobe universe I would suggest to you:
a) make your editing in Premiere Pro
b) send to AE (by dynamic link) only parts of your edits that will need motion graphics and animations
c) render everything from PPro with Media Encoder
That kind of workflow will give you flexibility and ease of introducing changes.

More on that kind of workflow:

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Pieter VoorhoutAuthor
Inspiring
November 30, 2018

Thank you very much for your reply!

I should clarify, when I say editor I actually meant a person who is editing I'm sorry for not making this clear.

I don't have direct acces to the Premiere Pro files the editor is working with. That would require some sort of server right?

Do you have any tips on a more 'offline' approach?

Thanks again!

imeilfx
imeilfx
Inspiring
November 30, 2018

If you are not editing those files yourselve and you are not working with project as a team project, or editor works on some other software than PPro - I gess there are no way to do your SFX and graphics other than take footage that was sended to you and work on it.

You can also (only when your editor works with PPro) request your editor to send you AE projects that he generated with edited footage that need to have sfx (special effects - let's call your work that for now) and send you that project. One condition - you have 100% of raw footahe that editor is working on and have in his AE all plugins that you will use. That way you will just send and recieve AE project files without rerendering thos files several times.

New workflow - yes, complicated? Maby. But faster than - in most cases rendering and rerendering files back and forth.


In some cases I guess it will work when you will use Motion Graphics Templates. (more on that here:  Create Motion Graphics templates with Essential Graphics panel  ) But here we also have one condition - your editor have to work on PPro - preferably the same update that your AE.

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