• Adobe After Effects

  Comps have ‘tracer’ effect in FCP

  Posted by Tw on November 21, 2008 at 10:14 pm

  Hello. I am using NTSC DV footage on FCP 6.0.4 and AE CS3. Whenever I make a movie in AE and put it into FCP, I get this ‘tracer’ effect. It also doesn’t look as sharp as my original footage. What I’m doing is stabilizing my footage because rotating in FCP is a disater. I’ve tried rendering the comp several different ways, but it all comes out the same. I’m not new to AE, but I am to FCP.

  Any help is appreciated.

  Thanks,

  Tony West

  Tw replied 17 years, 5 months ago 59,109 Members · 3 Replies
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  Tw

  November 21, 2008 at 10:34 pm

  It looks like, for example, when someone’s arm is moving they have trails, like there are a lot of arms there.
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  Tw

  November 21, 2008 at 10:40 pm

  You know… anytime I make a project in AE that is completely graphics based, it looks great, but anytime I use footage I’ve shot, the outcome looks like crap once I transfer it to FCP. I need to read up on exporting files.
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  Tw

  November 21, 2008 at 11:15 pm

  Dave, you’re batting 1.000 with me (you’ve been my savior twice before). I’m a total newbie to FCP and yes, my computer monitor was playing tricks on me. I took the video into the control room and looked on our video monitors and it looked fantastic.
  Thanks again.

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