Onlining in CS5

I've recently purchased CS5 and have an Nvidia GFX card that takes advantage of the Mercury engine (fantastic!!)

Aparrantly all the colour correction effects within Premiere CS5 now work in 32Bit, which I believe was the main advantage to onlining in After Effects.

So my question is, is there any need in CS5 to use After Effects to online? Ecspecialy considering the 32bit effects in Premiere are hardware accelerated whilst in After Effects they are not?

Plus I have easily accessible scopes in Premiere as well?

adam_54 wrote:

I've recently purchased CS5 and have an Nvidia GFX card that takes advantage of the Mercury engine (fantastic!!)

Aparrantly all the colour correction effects within Premiere CS5 now work in 32Bit, which I believe was the main advantage to onlining in After Effects.

So my question is, is there any need in CS5 to use After Effects to online? Ecspecialy considering the 32bit effects in Premiere are hardware accelerated whilst in After Effects they are not?

Plus I have easily accessible scopes in Premiere as well?

You probably don't necessarily NEED to use AE, but it's brilliant to be able to use adjustment layers and masks to control your corrections!

I've upgraded to CS5 a few months back and have just finished editing/grading a web TV series over the last few months using AE with Colorista 2 and Synthetic aperture's Test Gear 2.5 (for reliable scopes)
I found that AE's effects panel is a heap faster to drill down into than that awful one in premiere pro.
See how many clicks it takes to get to the secondary CC in CII... then see how long it takes to get a power mask up and positioned.
When you have 60 shots in a sequence - it gets tedious.

I actually tried both Ae and Pr workflows on the project (because time suddenly becomes important if you're doing work for someone else - especially if they're paying ya) and the "standard" DVRG workflow worked a lot faster for me.

May have been that I'm used to it more, or that I don't have a CUDA capable card in my machine - Just saying, it's what worked for me (plus I have the assurance that it's already got the Stu M seal of approval!)

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Thanks for the reply,

I think I'll just base by decision on a case by case basis.

Quick 30 sec promo spot with minimal CC work maybe stick with PP

More involved projects & films move over to After Effects.

You mentioned you used Colorista II: If you add Colorista to a clip in Premiere and then send that clip to After Effects via Dynamic Link, does that effects move across to After Effects with it or is it lost and you have to re-create it in After Effects?

adam_54 wrote:

Thanks for the reply,

I think I'll just base by decision on a case by case basis.

Quick 30 sec promo spot with minimal CC work maybe stick with PP

More involved projects & films move over to After Effects.

You mentioned you used Colorista II: If you add Colorista to a clip in Premiere and then send that clip to After Effects via Dynamic Link, does that effects move across to After Effects with it or is it lost and you have to re-create it in After Effects?

Fair enough Smile

I have had issues with cross dissolves not coming across from Pr to AE, as well as coloristaII adjustments (the effect stays there, but the primaries are reset)
My system's a bit messed up at the moment (needs a full re-install), so I'm hoping that it'll fix it

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- Peter

Hoping to stand on the shoulders of giants one day... as soon as I can afford a ladder....