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Quality Loss from AE into FCP
I rendered out an animation in After Effects and it looks crisp and clean. Then, I imported it into Final Cut and it looks fine (as fine as can be in FCP’s viewer). But when I exported my Final Cut project, the After Effects file / movie looks blurry and terrible!
What have I done wrong?!
Is it a problem with an After Effects setting or Final Cut?Any help is much appreciated! Thank you in advance 🙂
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4 Replies
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Elayne, we’d need a lot more information in order to help you.
What are your sequence settings in FCP? What are your comp settings in AE? What were your render settings and output module settings in AE?
Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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My sequence settings in Final Cut are:
NTSC 720×480 NTSC DV 3:2
Compressor is DV / DVCPRO – NTSCIn After Effects it’s:
NTSC DV Widescreen 720 x 480 px
Frame rate 29.97I’m a newbie here so all of this is frame rate / preset talk is a whole new language to me…
Thank you for your help !!
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DV is a delivery/playback codec. When working in AE try to keep stuff uncompressed. Render out using an Animation (QuickTime)codec or PNG or still sequence like TGA or TIFF.
Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
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With FCP, you can work in ProRes sequences, and render directly to ProRes from After Effects. It’s far kinder to graphics than DV, runs in real-time, and you can avoid the gamma shift you might get with the FCP and the Animation codec.
Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
RenderBreak Blog – What I’m thinking when my workstation’s thinking
Creative Cow Forum Host: Live & Stage Events
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