Jason Tammemagi
August 24th, 2003, 03:21 AM
I cut my film in Premiere and have been doing a ridiculous amount of colour fixes and effects work in After Effects. But after watching it all recently I want to make a few changes to the cut involving shortening some scenes, cutting some scenes completely and extending the amount of footage used from other scenes.
The problem is that if I change the cut in Premiere, all of my After Effects settings will be out. Badly out. And some scenes where I want to slightly retime shots by changing the speed, I'll have anasty amount of masks to shift.
Now I'm pretty certain the answer to this is no, but is there an easy way for me to go back to Premiere, change my cut and then make everything fit in After Effects? There doesn't seem to be a way to collapse layers that have masks in AE (I have loads). If I could do that I'd probably save myself a huge amount of time. Or if I could import the effects layers into Premiere and shift them with the cut, that would be perfect. But there doesn't seem to be a way to do that.
Does anyone have any ideas on this?
It's funny. This is my first solo live action short and there really isn't one thing that I've managed to do efficiently...
Jay.
The problem is that if I change the cut in Premiere, all of my After Effects settings will be out. Badly out. And some scenes where I want to slightly retime shots by changing the speed, I'll have anasty amount of masks to shift.
Now I'm pretty certain the answer to this is no, but is there an easy way for me to go back to Premiere, change my cut and then make everything fit in After Effects? There doesn't seem to be a way to collapse layers that have masks in AE (I have loads). If I could do that I'd probably save myself a huge amount of time. Or if I could import the effects layers into Premiere and shift them with the cut, that would be perfect. But there doesn't seem to be a way to do that.
Does anyone have any ideas on this?
It's funny. This is my first solo live action short and there really isn't one thing that I've managed to do efficiently...
Jay.