Importing from SVP into AE

[heathern777]

Hi! I'm somewhat new to AE and have been a long time user of Sony Vegas Pro. However, after doing a test edit on AE, I've found out that I prefer to cut my clips and audio in SVP, as its easier to time stuff correctly, and do transitions/effects in AE. I currently have an edit I'd like to make cut out, but it seems no matter what method I try (rendering each individual clip, importing .aaf files, basically every tutorial video I tried to watch), it didn't seem to work out for me.

So, my main question would be: how would you suggest importing a SVP file into AE? I have Vegas Pro 13 and AE 2017 as of right now, and am using a Windows 10. Any help would be much appreciated, as I've struggled with trying to figure this out for about 3 hours. Thanks!

[Mylenium]

Your description is too vague to make sense of it. Most importantly you haven't explained what "didn't work out" is supposed to mean. Were there errors/ warnings? What specificialyl have you done? what didn't work as you expected it to? You need to be a lot more precise.

Mylenium

[heathern777]

Sorry about that! I wasn't too sure what I needed to include to be honest. So far, I have tried:

1. Rendering each clip individually into AE. This one was closest to working, but at the end of each clip there was a weird red flash which didn't appear before I imported it into AE from SVP. I looked up some tutorials on how to get rid of it, but it seemed like there were only a few which had to do with adding lines of code into AE, and I wasn't too sure that I wanted to mess with it in case I broke AE totally.

2. Exporting the file from SVP as an .aaf. This problem was on SVP's part, as I got an 'archive failed' error that looked like this. I found basically nothing online about that (but I probably just missed what I was supposed to find so now I'm gonna look dumb haha) about it so I moved on an tried out some stuff myself.

3. Exporting the file from SVP as a .pproj. This one I just kinda decided to try out myself because it seemed like something that might have worked, but everytime I imported it to AE, it would just crash AE totally. I'm guessing that because its a file that's not even meant for something like that, I just assumed it would be worth a try and be better than nothing.

Those are all the solutions I've seen as of now, and the problems I'm having with them are probably really simple things I'm overlooking to be honest!! I'm not that most tech savvy person I guess, but I decided it might as well be worth a shot trying to ask.

[Mylenium · Accepted solution]

Going the .pproj route presumably would require to open it in Premiere first and save it again from there. Same with AAF. they are probably including a lot of proprietary metadata that AE can't handle and only "conforming" it in Premiere itself would get rid of that. The clips flashing is a typical sign of open frame groups in MPEG-based footage. You could possibly improve upon it by enforcing a fixed keyframe interval in the export settings and possibly playing with other options like actual frame spacing, MPEG levels and compatibility settings.

Mylenium

[heathern777]

Ah, okay! However, I have double checked on the red flashing at the end of the clips. When replaying the exported clip in both SVP and Windows Media Player, the red image isn't there. It only shows up when imported into AE on both the timeline and an exported test version. Because of that, would it still be something I needed to fix with the export on SVP? Sorry if I completed misunderstood that, I'm really not the best with trying to understand stuff.

[heathern777]

Nevermind, I figured out what it was! The framerate in AE was set to 59 while in SVP it was at 60. I just changed AE back to 60 and now its working. Thank you for your help and suggestions!!