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adding lossless animation to a comp will lose quality?
hya,
i just need some help about animation codec clips.
I have just renderred a clip with AE7 in animation codec (lossless)… I have another project in AE CS3 and i need to take this lossless clip and put it in with the rest of my unrendered compositions.
will there be a loss of quality or will the lossless file im importing into my project remain as it is?
the composition it will be dragged onto will have the same settings as the one from which i created the lossless clip. DV PAL 720×576 25fps.
thank you.
thanx for the help.
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I’ve noticed that when you have an interlaced clip, intepreted as such and render out to interlaced you’ll loose sharpness.
The same clip rendered as progressive to progressive stays the same.
Now you can only pull this trick if you don’t do any scaling or rotation on interlaced material.
You can do a repos, but only by an even number of pixels, or you will change field dominance.hth
Bouke
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As long as everything is rendered out lossless at full quality the rendered clip should look exactly the same as your AE comp.
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sorry that’s a bit confusing… what do you mean it will look the same as my comp?
maybe i explained wrong…ive got a comp..and in this comp i have raw animation ive made from scratch. in additon to that raw animation i also have a lossless full quality video i rendred from AE7…. so when i put that into the comp with the UNrendered animation, and render it all as lossless, it wont lose quality?
thanx again
thanx for the help.
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yes, that’s pretty much correct… if you render out from ae7 as lossless to composite in cs3, the lossless animation file should be exactly the same as it was in the ae7 comp.
however, if you were working in 16-bpc or 32-bpc color lossless animation is only capable of writing 8-bpc, so you would lose some data in that case… if that were the case, you could use another codec, like none16 from digital anarchy (free), which will encode 16-bpc color, or an image sequence like tif.
Kevin Camp
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thank you!
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thanx for the help.
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