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Lose of quality when rendering color correction *FIXED*
So I’ve been editing a short film for the past few days and have recently starting color correcting. However I’ve run into a problem where when I color correct a clip, the quality drops immensely when I render the color correction 3-way. And yes, the bad quality is still there once exported.
So basically, I get a clip and it’s good quality. I go through and color correct it and it’s still good quality. But once I render the now coloured clip, the quality drops and it becomes very pixelated.
When I go into the color corrector 3-way filter window, and I change the drop down box for display mode to either Final, Matte, Source. The clip goes back to being really good quality. But once exported and rendered, it goes back to bad quality.
I’m really hoping this makes sense. I haven’t had any trouble before this.
The footage I’m working with is 1920×1080, H.264, 25 fps
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[Teagan Bartholomew] “The footage I’m working with is 1920×1080, H.264, 25 fps”
That’s the problem. FCP and H.264 don’t mix. FCP needs the footage to be ProRes. The next best thing is to change the sequence setting to ProRes…away from H.264.
In the future, you need to transcode H.264 to ProRes before you start. Or, if you want to work native, you need to switch to Adobe Premiere Pro…that works with H.264 fine.
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Beside that, when you conform a sequence to H264, the sequence is rendered in 8b/RGB.
So the pictures goes YUV > RGB > YUV.
That’s to be avoided.
rafael -
Ahh Thank you! I changed the sequence to ProRes and now it works a lot better. I had no idea that H.264 and final cut didn’t work that well. Will definitely keep that in mind!
Thank you!
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[Teagan Bartholomew] “I changed the sequence to ProRes and now it works a lot better.”
Make sure that you also check one of the YUV rendering options.
rafael -
I will, thanks 🙂
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