• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Using After Effects to improve text appearance and resolution for an FCP project

  Posted by Robert Withers on November 8, 2013 at 1:37 am

  Hi all,
  I’m cutting an SD NTSC movie in FCP 5.1, creating intertitles using the FCP text function.
  At some point I will want to deinterlace this and convert to HD maybe 720p.
  Maybe I’ll switch to FCP 7 to get some more flexibility with the export.
  I’ve heard that titles might look better if created in AE.
  Is this true?

  Should I recreate them in AE and drop into the FCP timeline before transcoding? After?
  I may want to save this as FCP project as a Quicktime file and import into Premiere cause this could be part of a larger PPro project. Should I wait and recut/replace the titles in PPro? That seems like more work. Would it offer any benefits?
  I’m cross-posting this to the FCP and AE lists cause I don’t know how different the memberships are.
  Thanks for any thoughts,
  Robert

  Robert Withers

  Independent/personal/avant-garde cinema, New York City

  Michael Gissing replied 12 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Michael Gissing

  November 8, 2013 at 2:53 am

  I would use AE to convert from SD to HD and then put the titles on the HD version in Pr or AE.

  Using AE or Adobe Media Encoder will do a better scaling than FCP 7.

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