Vegas and AE-full feature film?

I start shooting my next feature soon and this will be the first time I online it in After Effects (my previous two stayed in Vegas). I'll be doing an offline edit in Sony Vegas, the entire film in one timeline. I know how to bring my Vegas project into AE, swap out the files, grade and master it. My question is, will AE handle an entire feature film at once in HD? I'm shooting with the T2i and would like to use the original quicktime files to master. I have AE CS4.
Thanks!

Anyone?

i dont know, but you can always stay on the safe side and cut your movie into many different parts (like 10-20 min each) and throw those in AE.
when ur done with the online for each part render to TIFFS. when you have all the TIFFS exported for the entire movie use quicktime pro or even backto after effects to render out the deliverable files.

make sense? im sure there are dozens of other possibilities, and possibly AE CAN hand the whole thing, i dont know though.

_________________
AIM me!

ED, what is your final target format? Blu-Ray? DVD? Each of these will have different requirements of your final output. AE and Encore can share chapter markers, so you can master in AE and output your H.264 file for Blu-Ray output, if that's your choice.

Also, Vegas can export an AAF file, which After Effects can read, so you can simply edit, then open the EDL in AE, without the need to render. Just include all of your 20 minute reels in the timeline and render once.

You might also try Cineform NeoScene, which interpolates your color into 10-bit 4:2:2 color space. Definitely a plus when you're mastering.

Target format is DVD and BluRay. I know about the AAF EDL trick, my concern was that I just don't know how stable AE is with a long project.

The longest work I've processed through is 46 minutes, and, while it took a long time to render, I had no technical problems.

There are others on the forum who have finished longer work in AE that may chime in...

good to know. Thanks! =D

Having another issue at the moment. Immigration isn't working well on a feature length project so I'm looking for other options. My offlines (proxies) are .avi and the HD files are .mov I need to swap out the avi's for the mov's. Is there a free way to batch do this? Or will I be stuck doing it all by hand? Also having problems importing my .aaf from Vegas. It worked just fine on my old machine, but my new one doesn't seem to like it =/

Thanks

you may have problems using the H.264 codec from the camera - it not an editing format - I would transcode to something better to work with. (yes I know the guide is all about pixel purity but it was written around the dv codec, an all I frame editing codec).