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Rendering help needed!
Hi all!
how are you?
Im in a bit of a pickle. Im an animator and am creating a 2D short film. Im editing and compositing my film in Final Cut Pro. When I am playing back my film, as im editing it, in Final Cut Pro, it plays with great resolution and quality. however, if i export as .mov file, it plays well once in Quicktime. If i play it back a few times in Quicktime, it starts to pixellate. Before I import files into Final Cut, i have been using Photshop CS3, After Effects and Motion.
The settings im using to export my film in Final Cut Pro are:
Compressor: Animation
Size: 768 x 576 Sq Pix DV-PAL
Quality: BestDoes anyone know why my film is pixellating? or how I can prevent the pixellation?
Thanks!
Aman Kaur -
6 Replies
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I don’t know much about FCP, but general knowledge of computers and MEMORY would indicate that quicktime’s losing the battle during playback.. have you tried playing it on a different computer and see if it suffers the same problem?
I’ve noticed on particularly large files, quicktime player starts to suffer, or lags even with my 2gigs…
Just a thought..
-Jeremy
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I would agree with Jeremy. The animation codec is an ‘intermediate’ codec. It preserves quality, but is pretty much unplayable on most systems. Compress a version for final delivery. If you’re making a DVD, import the QT animation into the project and let Encore compress it to mpeg. It definitely isn’t anything to do with playing the video multiple times – playing a clip doesn’t change the data it’s made from.
Simon Bonner
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Thank you!
I’m just going to burn a DVD and make sure it works well as an animation codec movie on a DVD as that is how it will ultimately be viewed as.
Im going to see if it works! Fingers crossed!
I’ll let you know how it goes…
I hate technology…cant live with it, cant live without it!argh!
Aman Kaur
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Thanks for the advice!
Whats Encore? Is it Mac Compatible?
Aman
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Encore is Adobe’s DVD authoring programme. In CS2 you could purchase it separately. It currently ships with Premiere Pro CS3 (you can’t get it separately).
You can also render straight to DVD from Premiere, assuming you have that.
Or you can just use whatever DVD authoring programme you were intending to use!
Simon Bonner
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Hi Aman,
I’d say it’s not the case that the file is degrading in any way when you play it back but rather that the system is doing its best to deliver vision from a file with high data rate.
Personally I’d keep on making the ‘animation codec’ version for your archive but then also make a h264 version for computer playback and a DVD encode for disc.
FCP’s ‘Compressor’ has all the settings required and you can batch them in one hit.
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