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Render Issue!
Hello!
So I made an animated video in After Effects and am having issues bringing it into and working with it in FCP.
The AE settings I used to create and render my animation are:
HDV 1080 / DVC PRO HD 720
When I rendered out of AE, I used a HDV 720p 30I brought the clip into Final Cut so I can mix in audio & narration. What frame size should I be using in FCP? Right now the sequence settings I’m using are 720 x 480 Custom which is what I used in AE and my compressor is HDV 720 p30. Yet it looks all stretched out after I render in FCP 🙁
Please and thank you for your help on this!!
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2 Replies
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[Elayne Lake] “HDV 1080 / DVC PRO HD 720”
How on earth can your settings be both 1080 and 720? That makes zero sense.
[Elayne Lake] “When I rendered out of AE, I used a HDV 720p 30”
HDV is the WORSE choice you can make. How about ProRes? much better. Better quality, no GOP, full raster.
[Elayne Lake] “What frame size should I be using in FCP? “
The exact same frame size you exported out of AE as. And frame rate…and codec.
[Elayne Lake] “Right now the sequence settings I’m using are 720 x 480 Custom which is what I used in AE and my compressor is HDV 720 p30.”
Hmmmm…no…that’s wrong. When something is referred to as 720p…it is 1280×720…the LAST number. 1080 is 1920×1080. You are using a 480 setting…not what your footage is. You need it to be 1280×720…but first you need to render out of AE as ProREs. Actually, what version of FCP are you running? Want to make sure ProREs is an option.
Shane
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Hey Shane
Thanks so much for your answers & help! I’m out of town and away from my workstation so I can’t double check any of the settings / questions you asked me but I will when I’m back.
I appreciate all your help!
I hope to finally wrap my head around the whole premise behind sequence settings!
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