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Did I encode this twice?
Hi everyone. I have a short intro tag that I’ve been picking away at using after effects. It actually ended up being 3 very short mov files I imported into FCP7. I connected them together and added some sound using FCP. I burned the first one to blu ray and it played back great on the desktop. I wanted to save it also as a quicktime file for insertion on future projects. When I played back the quicktime movie, it had some sizing issues when it transitioned between clips and some strange coloring. It’s not way off, but the blu ray looked awesome. Is it re-encoding the mov files again when I save it as a self contained quicktime movie?
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If the three clips has been exported with the same settings and the FC sequence has also the same setting, you can export without any re-encoding.
[Craig Johnson] “When I played back the quicktime movie, it had some sizing issues when it transitioned between clips and some strange coloring.”
Are you importing the files from the BR?
rafael -
No, the files weren’t brought in from the blu ray. I just took the mov files straight from After Effects and put them in a Pro Res 422 timeline in FCP7. My question is if I export it to a Quicktime self contained movie, does FCP automatically re-encode it?
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No.
As I wrote, if the clips and sequence match, only if you apply any filter or transition, or change any motion parameter or “composite mode” will be re-encoding, and only when you have apply those changes.
If you apply a transition, only the frames in the transition will be rendered.
rafael -
Thanks. I’m clear now on what you meant. I was thinking that it might automatically render again and that was the real question. Since it appears that isn’t the case, what would your guess be as to why the difference in playback between a burned blu ray and playing back an mov file? I would think they would both play fine.
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The basic FCP7 “Cross Dissolve”.
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