Efficient Green Screen Workflow between Adobe Apps? at DVinfo.net

Ram Ganesh · November 6th, 2009, 02:39 AM

I have shot around 10mins of green screen HDV 720p footage (for a 2min greenscreened short). I use AE CS4 and PProCS4 (with Dyn Link)

*When* do I key out the greenscreen & do the compositing?

Option A:
1) Assemble a rough cut in Premiere pro (basically delete all unusable takes)
2) Right Click and Replace with AE Composition (do I need to do this for each clip or the whole sequence?)
3) Do the Keying & all complex compositing in AE and come back to PPro to apply transisions etc.
4) Render out to Adobe Media Encoder for FLV (online distribution)

Or Option B:
1) Start in AE, throw away usable takes
2) Key and do composting in AE
3) Render to xxx (which format??)
4) Import to PPro and do the fine tuning there?

Harm Millaard · November 6th, 2009, 04:21 AM

I would choose option A, since that makes the composition in AE easier to handle and the simple work can be done in PR.

Greg Omelchuck · November 6th, 2009, 09:11 AM

The first one is the best. I just completed an 800 shot greeenscreen project with that workflow. One thing to keep in mind is you need lots of RAM if large project. If you are using 4gigs of ram you might run into crashing issues. CS4 runs AE in the background about 3-4 times while using dynamic link. You use up the ram really fast. If using 64bit system it can allocate 4gig ram to each program open. Hope this helps

Ram Ganesh · November 6th, 2009, 12:51 PM

That explains why I see 'AfterFX.exe' multiple times in my TaskManager... Unfortunately, I just have 2 GB ram, and system crawls...

To speed things up - should I split sequences into its own projects? (is it even doable?)

Harm Millaard · November 6th, 2009, 01:15 PM

To speed things up and improve stability at the same time, get extra memory.

November 6th, 2009, 02:39 AM	#1
Ram Ganesh Regular Crew Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 175	Efficient Green Screen Workflow between Adobe Apps? I have shot around 10mins of green screen HDV 720p footage (for a 2min greenscreened short). I use AE CS4 and PProCS4 (with Dyn Link) When do I key out the greenscreen & do the compositing? Option A: 1) Assemble a rough cut in Premiere pro (basically delete all unusable takes) 2) Right Click and Replace with AE Composition (do I need to do this for each clip or the whole sequence?) 3) Do the Keying & all complex compositing in AE and come back to PPro to apply transisions etc. 4) Render out to Adobe Media Encoder for FLV (online distribution) Or Option B: 1) Start in AE, throw away usable takes 2) Key and do composting in AE 3) Render to xxx (which format??) 4) Import to PPro and do the fine tuning there? __________________ http://www.wizedot.com

November 6th, 2009, 09:11 AM	#3
Greg Omelchuck New Boot Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Austin Texas Posts: 22	workflow The first one is the best. I just completed an 800 shot greeenscreen project with that workflow. One thing to keep in mind is you need lots of RAM if large project. If you are using 4gigs of ram you might run into crashing issues. CS4 runs AE in the background about 3-4 times while using dynamic link. You use up the ram really fast. If using 64bit system it can allocate 4gig ram to each program open. Hope this helps

November 6th, 2009, 12:51 PM	#4
Ram Ganesh Regular Crew Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 175	That explains why I see 'AfterFX.exe' multiple times in my TaskManager... Unfortunately, I just have 2 GB ram, and system crawls... To speed things up - should I split sequences into its own projects? (is it even doable?) __________________ http://www.wizedot.com

November 6th, 2009, 04:21 AM	#2
Harm Millaard Trustee Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Rotterdam, Netherlands Posts: 1,832	I would choose option A, since that makes the composition in AE easier to handle and the simple work can be done in PR.

November 6th, 2009, 01:15 PM	#5
Harm Millaard Trustee Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Rotterdam, Netherlands Posts: 1,832	To speed things up and improve stability at the same time, get extra memory.