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Exporting TIFF sequence settings for FCP
Hi all!
I’ve been working on some effects for a short film on AE. The original clips where imported from digi beta rushes. Now I need to export the whole film for FCP and Avid Media composer trying not to loose quality. Is a TIFF sequence the best option? If so, what should be the settings for this process?
Any help will be appreciated for my deadline is on friday morning.
Cheers.
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Where is the final piece going to? Back to Digital Beta?
Definitely do not use Targa sequences for Final Cut.
If it is going to Digital Beta, I would render with the codec of the output board.
If you are not sure, I think its safest to render with animation codec set at highest.
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Your original was 10-bit YUV 4:2:2 sampling in NTSC (720×486) or PAL (720×576) resolutions at a bitrate of 90 Mbit/s.
I would go 16 bit 4:4:4: uncompressed with no generation loss like PNG or animation.
If you don’t have room for that, use a codec that is 4:2:2 with bitrate of 90 Mbit/s like dvcpro HD 100 Mbit/s.Use color management so that your colors don’t shift like SDTV or HDTV. If you are unfamiliar with this, use PNG, it encodes color management inside itself so you don’t make mistakes. finally, if you have transparencies, export out RGB+Alpha millions+ colors straight(not premultiplied). If you want to work with changing your brightness a huge amount later on, consider going 32bpc so that you keep your illegal white information. Finally, broadcast spec out a 16-235 levels so that the NTSC won’t get line crawl.
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[Chris Wright] “I would go 16 bit 4:4:4: uncompressed with no generation loss like PNG or animation.
If you don’t have room for that, use a codec that is 4:2:2 with bitrate of 90 Mbit/s like dvcpro HD 100 Mbit/s.Use color management so that your colors don’t shift like SDTV or HDTV. If you are unfamiliar with this, use PNG, it encodes color management inside itself so you don’t make mistakes. finally, if you have transparencies, export out RGB+Alpha millions+ colors straight(not premultiplied). If you want to work with changing your brightness a huge amount later on, consider going 32bpc so that you keep your illegal white information. Finally, broadcast spec out a 16-235 levels so that the NTSC won’t get line crawl.”
Don’t you think that is a bit of overkill?
If your original footage was digibeta you should be working in an NTSC / PAL D1 preset or something similar. Just render out to the NLE’s uncompressed codec or animation set at best.
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but wait! there’s more!
1. interpret your digibeta footage in AE as upper field first.
2. don’t forget to render out with fields on.
PAL broadcast SD is upper field first, HDTV broadcast TV is upper field first, SD NTSC is lower field first.field order here:
https://www.vfxtalk.com/forum/video-field-order-reference-list-t176.html?s=d4f87322cd2e26eb3d7c3b650ccec3ba& -
Hi!
I did not re interpret the material on my edit line of AE. Since I am going back to digibeta and not film, do i still have to worry about pull down issues?
And in any case, which compression should I use to go back to FCP so I can export to a Digi beta.
thanks again.Luna
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