• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Quality Loss

  Posted by Elaine Lake on June 4, 2011 at 10:33 pm

  I imported an Adobe AE .mov animation I made into a Final Cut Project. It looks fine in the FCP viewer but when I render the project, the animation looks terrible!

  My sequence settings in Final Cut are:
  NTSC 720×480 NTSC DV 3:2
  Compressor is DV / DVCPRO – NTSC

  I shot footage on a Canon 7D camera and transcoded it to Apple Pro Res 422 LT to work with it in FCP.

  Any idea why the AE files looks blurry and loses quality when I export my FCP project with it in it?

  Thank you in advance for your help!

  Elaine Lake replied 14 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  David Roth weiss

  June 4, 2011 at 11:13 pm

  This is a very common issue Elayne, and it’s quite simple to fix.

  The problem is, you’ve put your title in a DV sequence. DV compression is as bad as it gets. Create a new sequence with settings to match your ProRes LT footage, and drop the animation in, and you’ll see a remarkable difference.

  David Roth Weiss
  Director/Editor/Colorist
  David Weiss Productions, Inc.
  Los Angeles
  https://www.drwfilms.com

  POST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™

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  Elaine Lake

  June 6, 2011 at 3:25 am

  Thank you very much! 🙂

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