The tools I use are Adobe After Effects, Final Cut Pro and Automatic Duck, with a Power Mac Dual G5 and an AJA Kona 2 card. My workflow goes like this: The editors cut in an Avid and give me an OMF, rather than spit out an EDL. We use Automatic Duck to import the edit info into Final Cut, which saves a lot of time, because Automatic Duck translates a lot more information than an EDL does and saves me from having to recreate a lot of what the editor has already done. I just have to re-link the graphics files and digitize the footage.
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Miller recently used his workflow on commercial campaigns for McDonald’s, with great results.
Comments (4) for "What’s My Flow? - Online with After Effects"
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I use this same workflow as well! It works very well for me, apart from the issues of converting overbright whites into the RGB range without clipping. How do you get around that issue? Great article, thanks!
Posted by Huw Bowen on Wednesday, March 14, 2007 @ 10:55 AM
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I run into the same issue. I clip the whites in final cut with the broadcast safe filter just before layoff.
Posted by Ivan Miller on Wednesday, March 14, 2007 @ 01:14 PM
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Been using AFX like this since June 2003 when i got my first license for the Duck.
We used this workflow to finish several major commercial campaigns including a 2 network launches.
Posted by danny princz on Thursday, March 15, 2007 @ 12:59 AM
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yeah I use this excact same process and find it awesome I render out then put back into FCP to do my broadcast safe'ing before I go to tape.
Posted by damian on Thursday, July 26, 2007 @ 01:58 AM
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