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  After Effects Renders looking pixelated in FinalCut

  Posted by Tracy Kim on August 25, 2014 at 3:08 pm

  Hi Everyone, I have a question about my After Effects renders looking pixelated when brought up in Final Cut.

  I am rendering a comp with Alpha using these setting : 1920×1080 29.97 square pixel ..codec:Animation
  Editor’s Final Cut settings are: 1920×1080 29.97 frame rate square pixel ..no field dominance ..export codec is apple prores 422

  Could any please tell which other codec can I use that will export alpha channels and will not make renders look pixelated in Final Cut?

  Tracy Kim replied 11 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Hamdani Milas

  August 25, 2014 at 6:36 pm

  I have also come across this problem. Fixed it by calling up Item Properties on the AE render after importing into FCP and checking the field dominance, in my case it said Upper (Odd) even the the render was 422 progressive. Right click on the Field Dominance and change it to None, then try bringing the clip into your edit sequence. Pixelated look should be gone. Don’t ask me why or how! As far as I can see it might be the way FCP is flagging and interpreting the file rather than being an issue with the AE render. Hope this helps!

  H Milas

  Independent producer, director, cinematographer, writer, editor
  Milas Film Productions, Hong Kong
  http://www.milasfilm.com
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  Tracy Kim

  August 25, 2014 at 6:40 pm

  Thanks. I’ll give it a try.

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