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AE to FCP> best way to render out
hi all,
I work a lot with ae and fcp and I’m wondering which is the best format to export/import in ae/fcp:– For graphics and logo should I use animation or prores?(avoid banding!!)
– for color correction stuff is it good to use prores?Moreover I notice, as I export from my timeline in fcp to prores a shift in color(or gamma)). I usually work in DV.
I’m running on: FCP 6.0.5; AE 9.0 CS4;Quicktime 7.6
thanks
Tommaso
tommaso@3soundrecord.it -
7 Replies
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The best format to work in AE is the same format as your Sequence.
If you’re working in DV, then work in DV in AE. If you don’t, then FCP is just going to recompress your footage in the timeline anyway. Better to know the limitations of your codec in AE rather than discover them when you come back to FCP.
Banding will always be there in the DV codec. It’s a 5:1 compressed format, no way to do clean gradients there that I’ve ever found.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.STOP STARING AND START GRADING WITH APPLE COLOR Apple Color Training DVD available now!
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Tomasso,
I only use Animation if I need an alpha channel. Otherwise, I always use ProRes. Banding can be minimized by making your comps 16 bit, but also a tiny bit of noise will fix it.
Have a wonderful day.
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thanks for the quickanswer.But I have one/two more doubts:
If I have to do CC or something that doesn’t concern motion graphics, is it not better to export to AE in prores (10bit) than to do it in DV?
I tested that If I export my dv timeline in prores I’ll obtain a much cleaner result than If I export in DV.
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Hi Tomasso,
You film in DV, but in which format do you deliver?
Unless you have to finish your product printed to DV tape, you can get much better results rendering in other codecs.
Rafael -
[tommaso cico] “I tested that If I export my dv timeline in prores I’ll obtain a much cleaner result than If I export in DV. “
What’s your final output? DV Tape? If so, you’ll just degrade the image on the way out anyway.
If you’re outputting to DigiBeta, then a ProRes workflow will definitely be better.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.STOP STARING AND START GRADING WITH APPLE COLOR Apple Color Training DVD available now!
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you’re right.
I got project to deliver both in DVD – DVcam and Internet. And so:dvd and dvcam: Export in dv (no better result if I encode in mpeg2 a prores files than a dv?)
Fot internet: export in RGB animation or prores or what? -
Hi Tomasso,
To the movie that go to tape, the only you can do is a good Color Correction but for the DVD and Internet movies you can improve a lot the look of your DV footage.
Anyway what you must do is to get a very good quality SD master and from him go to tape, MPEG-2 and web format.
You should edit your video in a 422 sequence (DV50, 8/10b Unc, ProRess). Rendering in “High Precision” will help too mostly if you put some graphics. Your DV footage will look for sure much better if you use a Chroma filter. The Nattress “Chroma Smooth/Sharpen” works great.
To export for the web, the best option at this moment is H264.
Cheers,
rafael
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