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  Does reimporting reference files cause quality deterioration?

  Posted by Seth Arch on September 26, 2007 at 4:25 pm

  I’m exporting my film as quicktime references scene by scene, and then dragging the exported files onto a new sequence and exporting that and compressing it to DVD.

  Will this process hurt the quality of my final project? I’m thinking it won’t because they’re reference files, but I wanted to check just in case. Anyone know?

  I save a lot of time doing it in this way, because I only have to export for scenes that have been changed.

  – Seth

  Seth Arch replied 18 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Tom Wolsky

  September 26, 2007 at 4:33 pm

  It won’t, but be really careful with this technique. The reference files are based on the render files available for a sequence. If you change a sequence the render files that aren’t needed get dumped. Then your reference movie doesn’t work. It’s a non-functional file and may well corrupt your project and make it unopenable until the file is deleted from your drive.

  All the best,

  Tom

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  Seth Arch

  September 26, 2007 at 5:29 pm

  good to know, thanks!

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