wheatgrinder i did not know that, thanks.
what about a long video? even feature? would you still do AE last? would that take to long?
what does the lossless setting mean? i heard someone say its bad. what kind of format is it? i just tried bring my AE footage into FCP the exporting and there was no problem with the playback.
when would i use compressor? Do you ever use it?
thanks for the help
Long videos take space. My longest short, NOBLE, rings in at around 12:08 after credits. The uncompressed 1920x1080 file at 23.98 fps is just under 80 GB. For features, this is where a multi disk raid becomes necessary to store and playback files.
For my workflow I do the main video edit and basic dialogue/Set sound edit in Premiere, then export to AFX for visual effects. After the VFX are done, I leave it in AFX and color correct/grade every clip (usually adding vignettes and false lighting). After that, I send it back to premiere (exporting uncompressed) and tweak any edits that look funny after VFX. Now that everything video wise is in place, I bounce the audio into as many tracks as I can and send it to the audio editor who magically makes it sound great, adding sound effects and what not where needed. He also scores it. We do ADR if needed as well. He bounces out the final mix, I take it back to premiere and marry it with the final footage. Then, export through Media encoder to different compressed formats for different uses. YouTube likes one h.264 file, Vineo another. Without a box and IMDB want 1280x720 footage so I make a version for that. I encode it to SD Mp2 for DVD and then in HD again for BluRay. Wherever it's going you tailor the compression for it.
Lossless is uncompressed. When you compress video, you lose information. Watch so e low quality YouTube videos, look at all the square junk all over the video. They're super compressed. You keep it uncompressed till the final output, because if you compress footage to send it to AFX, then compress again to send to Final Cut, then again for YouTube or whatever that's three times, each losing kore and more data. It's not bad, just huge hard-to-work-with files.
Again, you use compressor as your last step, outputting for each individual need.