• 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 16 years, 1 month 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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