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AE to Prem CS3 Render & Trancode?
I have animated pages of a children’s book in AE CS3…1920 x 1080.
Each page is an AE composition that I render to a movie clip w/ Microcosm lossless codec. I then import that clip into Premiere to assemble and add/adjust the audio. Then I layoff to my HV30 as a portable playback source and a way to archive the final sequence.What file format or codec is Premiere using when I import the AE clips in order to play the timeline in realtime? Is that creating a degradation in quality?
When I transcode to HDV, is that creating a degradation in quality?Thanks,
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Uncompressed is the only way to not lose any quality. The codec you are rendering to from AE is not one I’m familiar with. But when editing in PPro the sequence will be rendering to the set format you chose the sequence from in the presets or set manually by yourself. Unless the sequence was setup as an uncompressed sequence you are losing some quality.
There are varying quality loses with each codec type – HDV is heavily compressed compared to DV, but then you might not notice the difference so much by eye. H.264 with the settings ramped up high can look stunningly close to the original picture.
Best to keep the backups as digital files on a large hard drive you can put away and then pull out when you want to use it again. Best practice would have you back it up on a hard drive that has RAID 1 setup.
Tape can be glitchy and heads on machines can make problems appear on tapes that are fine, but then add gunk from the heads to make the tape dirty and then you’ll never get the ingest properly. Broadcast quality is not even uncompressed, it’s got a 2:1 quality loss, but you’ll never notice it by eye.
Hope this helps.
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