Aftger Effects graphics look crunchy in FCP

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Aftger Effects graphics look crunchy in FCP

Posted by Doug Normington on August 16, 2010 at 3:03 pm

Hi, I am editing a project in Final Cut Pro. Standard Def DV 16:9. I have made some animations in Aftereffects with the composition settings of DV wide screen. When I output the animations as quicktime they look fine in the quicktime player. When I bring them into Final Cut Pro they look fine when I step through then frame by frame but when I render the sequence the edges of the font looks frayed.

I have tried field rendering. Non field rendering. different codecs. not sure how to crack this one.

thank you in advance.

Doug

Rafael Amador replied 16 years ago 4 Members · 8 Replies
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Rafael Amador
August 16, 2010 at 4:13 pm

Hi Doug,
Change your sequence codec to something better than DV (DV50, 8/10b Unc, Prores), and you will see the difference.
Cheers,
rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com
Doug Normington
August 16, 2010 at 4:34 pm

I have used prorez50 and 8 and 10 bit and it looks the same. Kind of frayed on the edges. The font is generated in aftereffects…

Doug Normington
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Rafael Amador
August 16, 2010 at 5:30 pm

Are you watching the canvas at 100% and fully rendered?
Did you tried to change the Alpha Channel of the graphics?
rafael

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Chris Tompkins
August 17, 2010 at 2:04 pm

Render your AE grfx DV50.
Drop ur DV footage into a DV50 Timeline.
Render.
View Ext. monitor.

Chris Tompkins
Video Atlanta
Kai Cheong
August 17, 2010 at 2:37 pm

I had a similar issue during edit today which involved Livetype. Maybe my solution would help your situation: check the AE Quicktime you’ve dragged into the browser. Scroll across to the field order column – what’s listed there?

Oddly enough, even though I’d exported a ‘no fields’ Quicktime from Livetype, when it was brought into the browser, it was tagged as ‘Upper (Odd)’. I changed that to ‘none’ and replaced the clip in the sequence – problem solved.

Kai
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Rafael Amador
August 17, 2010 at 2:38 pm

[Chris Tompkins] “Render your AE grfx DV50.”
No Alpha channel.
rafael

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Chris Tompkins
August 17, 2010 at 8:47 pm

Did not see any mention of Alpha in original post…

Chris Tompkins
Video Atlanta
Rafael Amador
August 18, 2010 at 1:30 am

[Chris Tompkins] “Did not see any mention of Alpha in original post…”
Well, when people talk about “Graphics”, I imagine an Alpha channel.
rafael

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