In this tutorial you will see how to import a Sony Vegas project to After Effects.
08. Import Sony Vegas Projects to After Effects
Published: September 29, 2009Posted in: News, Tutorials
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My name is Gyorfi Szilard, I am the founder of BlueFx.net, I work as a freelance motiongraphics designer 
Well thanks for the tut. I’ve used vegas many times, I would use it in the future and this tip is gonna help me for sure. But I want to ask you, why don’t you prefer Premiere for editting sound and video instead vegas?
Hi Ahmed
Hmm good question, I have used Premier and Vegas too, I prefer Vegas because it is much faster and more user-friendly , but at the same time a professional editing tool. For example: I was doing a multicam edit first in Premier, it took me 4 :30 hours, when I edited the same project in Vegas it took me less than 3 hours and I was still learning how to properly edit multicam videos in this application. I will create a post/tutorial about using Sony Vegas vs. Adobe Premier
Thanks!
Great man! Perfect 8D
Awesome video I have been looking for something like this for quite a while. I’m new to the whole editing process and I can’t tell you how much I have stressed on this issue. I had CS3, with an AVCHD video camera that recorded files in .mts, which adobe CS3 does not recognize. I could never quite figure out how to get files from vegas to after effects without loosing any quality. I’m currently away from my computer to actually try this, but what happens if I make video effect changes to the video file in After Effects and then I save the .aaf file? Will these changes show up if I open it in vegas?
Thank you Luis for your feedback. I have a suggestion, try to rename the file extension from .mts to .MPG. This way you could be able to edit the videos more easily. Unfortunately you can`t save from After Effects to aaf. format. This only works in Sony Vegas. Would be cool to have the feature in AE too.
This may work if the video/audio files are editable within Adobe but for example Xvid files will not load. I tried editing a fanmade trailer and Adobe just errored out. I have not tried this with normal DV files or anything though….but I could have really used this for my 22 min short film.
Hello!
This is great and I realy need it for making stabilize motion.
But I have a problem, in save as I have not AAf format.
I have platinum 9.0
What should I do?
Hi Tedy
Thanks, hmm strange. I just installed Sony Vegas 9 , it dose have the aaf file format in the “Save as “menu.
Maybe you could reinstalling the app, if this won`t solve the problem try to contact the Sony support team. I`m sure that they will have a solution.
Üdv! Magyarul írok, így könnyebb. Tedy-hez hasonlóan én is 9.0 verziószámú Vegast használok (Vegas Movie Studio HD 9.0c), és mentési lehetőségként a “Save as…” menüben csak a .vf formátumot kínálja föl. Elképzelhető, hogy megszüntették ezt a funkciót? Esetleg elérhető valamilyen plugin?
Laci is saying that he has Vegas 9.0 but can`t find the .aaf format in the Save As dialog.
I am not sure why this is happening, on my version the format exists, I use Vegas 9.0, if anibody has an explanation , possible solution, please let us know.
Koszi Laci
AAF import and export (or saves) are not available in the 64 bit version of Vegas Pro 9. They are available in the 32 bit version though.
Jay, it was quite a mystery for me.
Thank you for your help
Tedy mentioned platinum 9.0 which is the consumer version, maybe it doesn’t have AAF.
Excellent Video, and definatly puts to rest a lot of consern from many poeple that are weary of feeling that they have to render out of vegas, work in after effects, then render out from after effects to finalize in vegas, then render the final product.. mainly the consern of losing quality after all these various renders.. this however.. solves the “from vegas into AE” …
i have a question though…. once u are finished doing the effects in AE off of the .aff prefix, what does one need to do to get the project back into vegas with all the new work done from after effects with out any loss of quality or added compression?
hope this question made sense.
thank you
Alex
Hi Alex, thanks
I have been searching for a way to export the edited files from After Effects back to Vegas, but I did not find a good solution. I render the videos out and then edit theme in Vegas if I need to.
Nice video tips there.
i have a question, when i tried to put my render projects in sony vegas from AE it lost some video quality?
what is the problem?
any suggestion?
Hi Charles,
It could have more causes:
1) you are rendering in to a compressed, delivery format from AE, this is making the video lose quality. If file size is not a big issue for you, I recommand that you render the video in Qtime, animation codec. This is a lossless codec, meaning you are not loosing video quality. A good alternative, that I also use, in Qtime Photo -JPEG, this codec renders fast and the quality loss is barely noticeable
2)Vegas automatically reduces the quality of the video when you preview a video so that the video plays smoothly and dose not jump. This happens often if you work with HD videos, this happens only in the preview, the video will have good quality when you render.
very nice.
thanks pal