Thank you all for responding.
DaveS,
Ideally we would be able to work on two computers, sharing the project files via Dropbox. As it stands now, we do have the same file paths on each computer for the images, just the work hard drives have different names.
Computer 1: Hard Drive A: Project Folder: Project Stills: CR2 files
Computer 2: Hard Drive B: Project Folder: Project Stills: CR2 files
It does take a long time to relink the files but I think that is in large part due to the nature of the project. Do you know of a way that could speed up this process?
And it was a project with 12,000 still image footage items
Dave L,
The jpegs exported form Lightroom are 5616x3744. FCP has a frame size limitation so I would make a sequence set to 4096x2731 and place the jpegs in there. Think of those sequences as quicktime files. I would use them to do the edit in my 2K sequence. Once the edit was in AE, I would resize those 4K sequences to 5616x3744, tweak my edit/frame/scale as necessary.
Mylenium,
That article is pretty interesting, espceially since we have been talking about trying out the Blackmagic camera, however, working with quicktimes isn't an option for this project for various reasons. If we were strictly editing on 1s we could do that but we often change parts of a single shot to 3s or 4s and will hold on a single image for a moment. Going back and making new quicktimes everytime we wanted to make a change like that would probably be more time consuming than the issue we are having now. And storage for 5K quicktimes would be an issue as well.
When I wrote that first post, a deadline was approaching fast and we were worried we wouldn't make it but we did. Now we have some time and are looking at ways to make this process as efficient as possible. We are in the color correction and compositing stage so everything is mostly going to be done in AE.
The whole project is 40 minutes long and we have each scene as its own AE project. When they are all combined into the master AE project, the file size is 1.5 GB and it takes over an hour to open. Ideally, we wouldn't need to open that project very often, really only when we are doing exports. Is there a way to bring that file size down while still retaining the RAW images. Is there a way to somehow proxy the scene projects in the master project? Do you know if Adobe is working on ways to improve working with CR2/RAW in AE?
I know this a weird workflow and not really what AE was designed to do, but without spending $100,000+ at a high end post house, this is the best workflow we could come up with, while still retaining the RAW information. We tried working with TIFFs but the sheer volume of images we have and each TIFF image averaging 100 MB it was too much of a storage burden. If anyone has any suggestions to help with any of this or someone from Adobe can shed some insight, I will be forever grateful.
