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AAE to FCP field render problem
Hello,
At work I’m using After Effects 6.5 for an animated television show. We are rendering our compositions from a comp that is 720 x 486, D1 pixels, with lower fields to an animation compressor. When we bring our Quicktimes into Final Cut Pro we have large jagged breaks in the image quality, not the smooth movement we expect. We tried switching to upper fields and got the same result. We’re using the latest version of Final Cut. My suspicion is that it’s something on Final Cut’s end of things and not AE’s. Has anyone else experienced and (better yet) solved this problem?
Scott
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3 Replies
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What are your sequence settings?
How are you monitoring the output of FCP?
Which I/O are you using?
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[Slice11217] “At work I’m using After Effects 6.5 for an animated television show. We are rendering our compositions from a comp that is 720 x 486, D1 pixels, with lower fields to an animation compressor. < So far so good, but why are you using Animation? I'm asking because many people do not udnerstand it. > When we bring our Quicktimes into Final Cut Pro we have large jagged breaks in the image quality, not the smooth movement we expect. < If you are bringing in the raw Animation it won't play until it's rendered to conform to your sequence settings. > We tried switching to upper fields and got the same result. We’re using the latest version of Final Cut. My suspicion is that it’s something on Final Cut’s end of things and not AE’s. Has anyone else experienced and (better yet) solved this problem?”
Most of these issues are simple user errors. Fill in the blanks on the question me and debe have asked and we’ll have something to suggest.
bogiesan
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Well, we got to the bottom of the whole thing here. Just had to endure a night of perplexed, cold sweat, insomnia. The answer is kinda complicated, but it boils down to a frame rate problem. We’re working with Flash animation at 30fps. As everyone knows video isn’t quite 30fps, and this isn’t too much of a problem for about the first 15 seconds of our comps. After that point the drop-frame starts to rear its ugly head and After Effects tries to compensate by splitting the animation over the two fields. Works OK for anything that’s animated in After Effects since the keyframes are set up to accomodate this, but for the stuff that’s animated originally in Flash, well… let’s just say that it becomes incredibly obvious how Flash really isn’t yet suited to video.
I’m just glad that I now know what the problem is. Thank you for your help, guys
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