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  AE created lower third importing blurry into avid?

  Posted by John Castelli on May 9, 2008 at 8:04 pm

  Hey Guys,

  Has anyone ever had an issue with an AE project importing blurry into avid media composer 2.8?

  Basically,

  I have a lower third I created in AE, it is my first AE creation. The graphic has the image of a gun, however, the image is 100% text taking the shape of a gun that I matted out. I rendered the graphic, and in MANY different ways, but no matter what I do, it imports blurry into avid. So blurry that you can not read the words in the gun. I have tried all of the following:

  -ALL of the avid import settings and combinations (it is a NTSC 30i SD project)
  -I have most of the render que options set to “current settings” in my project, with Motion blur being “apply to checked layers”
  -No proxies are being used
  – I tried field rendering both top and bottom first.
  -I am exporting it with best quality, and as a lossless animation (quicktime).
  – I have TRIED rendering it with the avid DV codec, and avid meridian uncompressed (this one errored out, i think I need to update my quicktime?)

  Anyone have any Idea why this might be happening?

  I’m working on:
  Avid Media Composer 2.8- NTSC 30i SD project.
  Working in AE CS3 on a windows XP system

  Thanks All!!

  John

  Andrew Wardlaw replied 18 years ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Lars Bunch

  May 10, 2008 at 4:33 pm

  Hi,

  I don’t think using a DV codec is going to help you. They almost always look blurry. If you use the Meridian codec your comp MUST be 720×486 – nothing else works. If you have set up your comp as 720×480 the Meridian codec will fail. Mostly when I have provided animations for Avids I use lower field dominant renders, but if the editor is working with DV, I find I have to create upper field renders.

  Also, if you are rendering with an alpha channel, do a straight render rather than a pre-multiplied render. Avids do not understand pre-multiplication and will create a dark ring around semi-transparent areas in your animation.

  Of course if you have used the Lossless Animation codec and are still getting blurry text, it may be an issue of the Avid, not After Effects. In once case I was creating animations for a Final Cut project shot in DV and the animations looked blurry and terrible. Apparently FCP dumbed down the animation to DV quality no matter what it started out as. The fix was to upres the project to the quality of the animations.

  Could this be what is happening in Avid? You may want to ask this question on an Avid forum. I’m sure the issue comes up a lot. There may be setting in the Avid for dealing with maintaining graphics quality while compositing into a DV project.

  Hope this helps,

  Lars
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  Andrew Wardlaw

  May 11, 2008 at 12:52 am

  My thoughts…

  If you’re erroring out when trying to render to the meridian codec, it’s probably because your comp needs to be 720×486. It’ll choke on anything else.

  My other thought is maybe the Avid is setup to “draft” mode. In Avid, ont he lower left of your timeline, is icon that is sometimes yellow, sometimes green, and sometimes split. If that’s yellow or yellow/green, that’ll lower the resolution of the final comp.

  What does it look like when you open up the quicktime in quicktime?

  -Andy

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