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Settings for best quality
I do a lot of photo montages in After Effects and then import them into Final Cut to incorporate them into my timeline. I am really dissapointed with the quality of the photos once I export my timeline from FCP and encode to MPEG-2 for DVD creation. The photos I am using are very hi-res, so I am wondering if it is a step or setting I am missing in either AE or FCP. I keep all my comp settings the same as my FCP timeline (DV-Pal). Should I be using something else if I want to keep the best quality of the photo montage? Since these are still pictures I am using for my AE photo montage, could I use another (better) comp setting. Will that make the photos look better?
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are you rendering out of AE using DV compression? if so, I probably wouldn’t … if you can afford the disk space you don’t really want to compress your video until the very last step … so when you render out of AE you should be using no compression, or Animation Codec if you have the disk space. If you don’t have enough disk space maybe try a codec like PhotoJPEG.
Also, maybe work with your FCP timeline in the same setting as you render out of AE…. then only compress the video to MPEG-2 when you are finished ….
hope this helps you a bit …
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The comp setting shouldn’t be the issue. The comp setting sounds like you’ve got it right. Duff’s right, but to further clarify… don’t go to File-Export. Go to Composition-Make Movie. The default should be great quality.
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