• Maxon Cinema 4D

  Rendering for Final Cut Pro

  Posted by Tony Barone on August 30, 2012 at 2:03 pm

  What is the best rendering setting to use for editing in Final Cut Pro X?

  I tried rendering at: 720 x 480, but for some reason, when importing into Final Cut Pro X, it reads the properties as 640 x 480.

  I’ve tried several different setting with results that just aren’t that good. While the exported animation looks great playing in Quicktime, in Final Cut Pro it looks not as good.. almost as if anti-aliasing wasn’t turned on, edges are jagged and such.

  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

  Daniel Woodard replied 13 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  Daniel Woodard

  August 30, 2012 at 3:23 pm

  Sound like a D1 v. Square Pixel issue?

  Are you rendering square pixels and importing into a D1 FCP project?
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  Tony Barone

  August 30, 2012 at 3:51 pm

  To tell you the truth, I’m really not sure.

  In C4D I have my output set to:
  Preset: NTSC DV Widescreen
  720 x 480

  Film Aspect: 1.8
  Pixel Aspect: 1.2 – D1/DV NTSC Widescreen (1.2)
  Frame Rate: 29.97

  It doesn’t look like I have anything set to square pixels.
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  Daniel Woodard

  August 30, 2012 at 4:23 pm

  Similar, but different problem.

  In C4d use DV but not widescreen.

  The FCP is straight 4:3 720×480 but it looks like you are C4d rendering 720×480 flagged for widescreen 16:9.

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