VIDEO: How To Import A Sony Vegas Project Into After Effects For Mastering

There are endless conversations about best practices and workflow for maintain the very highest quality picture in post production and many of them have to do with never recompressing your original footage once you get going. One of the FASTEST and BEST ways to do this is to work in Sony Vegas for editing and then bring it into After Effects for everything else that includes dissolves, fades, color correction, sharpening, deartifacting and finally output of a digital master.

But how can you get your awesome edit out of Vegas without rendering something and thus losing a generation of quality by having to apply some sort of compression?

This video may help answer that question, at least as far as a way to get your Vegas-edited clips into After Effects quite painlessly. Interestingly enough, the solution comes from using a rather antique file export format – the Avid AAF EDL file exchange format. Watch the video, and then post your comments here.

If you know a better way, I would love to hear it!