After Effects CS3 Query

GreenMint · 31 Jan 2011 at 10:24

Hey guys, I have a colleague who is using a combination of Adobe Premiere Elements and Adobe After Effects CS3 for some projects, at the end of it, it needs to be in the 1080i 30fps WMV format for use on our internal Multi AV system, exporting to this is no problem at all from Premiere, but when the file is moved into After Effects, we cannot save it straight as a WMV for usage back in Premiere, we seem to have to save as DV avi and then use a3rd paryt editor to convert to WMV (If we don't bring it back into Premiere as a WMV it seems to get huge letterboxing.

On the short of it, is there a way to export as WMV from After Effects CS3, I cannot see it anywhere on the export options, but the Adobe site lists this as CS3 export options:

Video and animation formats
■3GPP (3GP, 3G2, AMC; requires QuickTime 6.5 or later)

■Adobe Clip Notes (PDF containing rendered movie)

■Animated GIF (GIF)

■Cineon (CIN, DPX; 16 and 32 bpc converted to 10 bpc)

■ElectricImage (IMG, EIZ)

■Filmstrip (FLM)

■Flash (SWF)

■Flash Video (FLV)

■H.264 and H.264 Blu-ray

■MPEG-2 (Windows and Mac OS on Intel-based Mac only)

■MPEG-2 DVD (Windows and Mac OS on Intel-based Mac only)

■MPEG-2 Blu-ray (Windows and Mac OS on Intel-based Mac only)

■MPEG-4

■OMF (media [essence] only, Windows only)

■QuickTime (MOV, DV; requires QuickTime for 8 bpc and codec support for 16 bpc)

■RealMedia (RAM, RM; Windows only)

■Video for Windows (AVI)

■Windows Media (Windows only)

From: http://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/Aft...WS3878526689cb91655866c1103a4f2dff7-79f1.html

alexakasloth · 31 Jan 2011 at 11:14

It should be possible to import the project into Premiere then place it on a sequence and export it as WMV.

GreenMint · 31 Jan 2011 at 11:28

The only option we can see if export to Adobe Premiere Pro Project, wasn't sure if this would be usable with Premiere Elements?

alexakasloth · 31 Jan 2011 at 11:45

I haven't used Premiere Elements so cannot verify, however it's usually an import process (right click in the Bin area, import the AE project which will appear as one sequence). Can P.E do this? Otherwise i'm out of ideas

GreenMint · 31 Jan 2011 at 12:08

I exported the project and tried to open it with premiere elements, sadly the files types don't match, renaming obviously didn't help, I guess now I'm on the hunt for a convert from premiere pro projects to premiere elements projects!

Bones · 31 Jan 2011 at 14:14

When i use AE i always render out to Quicktime .mov and import that into Adobe Premiere. Then use Premiere to encode to whatever codec (media encoder). Give that a try.

GreenMint · 31 Jan 2011 at 14:30

Thanks Bones, will give it a try, just trying to cut down on the sheer amount of encoding he has to do!

ashatron · 1 Feb 2011 at 03:39

Exporting out wmv from after effects for use elsewhere seems odd.

AFAIK (and what I have done for years) the best process is to export an uncompressed (lossless) QuickTime mov from AE and import that into premiere (or FCP w/e). Select the codec 'Animation' for uncompressed.

You should be able to export the wmv straight from AE though. Huge letter boxing? You
must not have set your render settings / composition settings correctly. Check your pixel
aspect ratio and composition dimensions.

Also avoid converting formats in 3rd party applications, you will only get quality degradation. Unless the input file is an uncompressed format.

GreenMint · 1 Feb 2011 at 08:41

Ok, thanks mate, will pass that onto him, just working as a go between for him

NutritioN · 3 Feb 2011 at 14:25

For WMV I use the export as... option in the file menu. Not the normal rendering queue. Can't remember the exact wording, but can you find what I'm talking about?