• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Sequence settings + Compression vs. AeCS4

  Posted by Adam Pietraszek on June 21, 2010 at 3:28 pm

  I noticed that when I render gradient-heavy motion graphics in After Effects CS4, next to “output module” it says “Lossless.” When I open and play that rendered .MOV file on any computer, there is NO banding and the quality is superb (1280×720 24p).
  I then import that file into FCP to do my editing.
  Along w/ the AE project, I’m also cutting several 1280×720 24p videos all shot on different cameras (these are already edited and compressed using h.264).
  So I set my Sequence preset to Apple ProRes 4444, 24p, but change the res to 1280×720).
  I do my cutting…
  Send to Compressor and use the Apple ProRes with Alpha (4444, 32bit).
  So…
  This seems to be the ONLY way I can get my final to NOT have gradient banding. HOWEVER, my 3 minute clip is almost 4GIGS! Compared w/ the h.264 version which is only 500gigs.
  Basically I’m asking if there’s anything I can step down in either Compressor or the Sequence presets which will keep the pristine quality (no banding) and reduce the file size?
  Thank you.

  John Fishback replied 15 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  John Fishback

  June 21, 2010 at 4:22 pm

  Have you tried exporting your file to ProRes 422 instead of 4444? It’s 10-bit (as is 4444), but will produce smaller files.

  John

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