• Adobe After Effects

  Quicktime import

  Posted by Simon Roughan on May 2, 2006 at 1:30 pm

  I have a background for a series of clips that i made that was very render intensive ( big 3D layers with lots of fractal noise and glows etc). rather than have every clip render for 3 hours, i thought to myself render the background out first, and then just lay it in the clip comps- well duh!!
  Rendered out a QT in animation, best quality etc, but when i bring this mov back into AE and lay it in a timeline, it looks like it is in half res or something. the QT icon in the project window has a strange little red and blue symbol in the bottom right corner. when i alt-click it, it still looks like crap, but when i just simply double click it and it opens in the normal movie player window, it looks good. It also looks good in the normal QT player. Can someone please tell me whats up here? what does this little symbol in the corner mean?
  thanks in advance
  simon

  Simon Roughan replied 20 years ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Filip Vandueren

  May 2, 2006 at 2:04 pm

  the footage is being de-interlaced for display in AE, if your footage wasn’t rendered interlaced, you can prevent that from happening by going into Interpret footage and ignoring the seperate fields option.
  Either way, if it is interlaced: when you render back out to interlaced, the quality will be there, don’t worry.

  The Red-blue symbol in the Quicktime icon indicates that AE knows that this Movie is actually a rendered comp from an aep. project file, there’s some metadata stored in the qt that enables you to replace the movie with the comp should you choose to do so.
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  Simon Roughan

  May 2, 2006 at 2:21 pm

  thanks mate!!

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