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Mystery Compression
I’m rendering a text based intro from AE 7.0 for Windows and am running into loads of pixelation. The comp is rendering lossless yet still looks like junk. Any help would be much appreciated,
Thanks,
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My first thought is that you’re rendering with a straight alpha channel and previewing your file in an application that doesn’t display straight alpha as you would expect.
What happens when you view it in AE?
A picture might help.
Cheers,
BenCurious Turtle Professional Video
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The first .jpg
is from AE, the second
from Premiere. How do I change from rendering in alpha? -
It doesn’t look like the alpha – especially as you’re not rendering out an alpha.
How are you rendering out of After Effects – a lossless AVI? If you are not planning on doing any further work with it, then render it out to match your Premiere settings.
Another thought is, it could just be a phantom compression you’re seeing. Do you by any chance have your Premiere viewer set to Draft? It certainly looks like the sort of artefact you’d get if it was. If your render from AE looks good in another viewer(VLC or Media Player for example), then Premiere is the culprit.
All the best,
BenCurious Turtle Professional Video
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Premiere is set at DV 29.97i, 24p Coversion Method Interladed Frame (2:3:3:2), Display Format 30 fps Drop-Frame Timecode.
It looks like Premiere’s the ticket though, the straight avi is clean. What should I adjust?
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There’s a little dropdown menu to the top right of your viewer window. In there set the viewer from Draft Quality to Automatic or High. (Doing this from memory, so the exact names might not be what I’ve said. It is in that dropdown though!)
Cheers,
BenCurious Turtle Professional Video
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Hmmmm, seems it was set to ‘automatic’ and looks the same even when put to ‘highest quality’. Any clue which other settings might be the problem?
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