AE 6.5 Titles look Horrilbe once in FCP??

[Jeremy Garchow]

Ryan, where are you watching these low quality movies? Within FCP’s canvas or in Quicktime?

If it’s within FCP, then you are looking at a low res preview and you won’t know what it really looks like until you watch it on a proper monitor (as has been mentioned already numerous times). If you are watching through quicktime, then perhaps you don’t have the high quality preference turned on.

Open the movie in Quicktime, and go to the Quicktime Player > Preferences menu (or simply hit apple-comma). When the pref window pops up be sure to check the ‘Use high quality video setting when available” preference. That will ensure that you are seeing the movies as they are, and not as a low res knock down for smooth playback.

Jeremy

[Ryan Walker]

Hey guys thanks for all the replys. The snow out here in Colorado is too good to pass up a day of skiing, anyway..

FCP Sequence Setting:
720×480 NTSC DV (3:2)
Pixel Aspect Ratio: NTSC-CCIR 601/ DV(720X480)
Field Dominance- Lower(Even)
Editing Timebase- 29.97
Quicktime Video Settings- DV/DVCPRO-NTSC
Quality-100%

The final output will be to DVD.

And I have been watching these clips in both in FCP and in the Quicktime player. I checked out your settings to view the high res preview, but still looks bad from FCP, and good from AE. Someone briefly mentioned, where I think they were going, with Square Pixels in opposed to more Rectangular pixels and having a comp size of 720×480 vs 720×486 I understand what you are saying, and agree with you. But both of my sequences in FCP and AE are 720×480. Do I need to export from AE as a different comp setting than 720×480 to go back into FCP? Again guys I appreciate the patience and help. If anything, every little step that I try is making it a little better than when we all started. So again, thank you, and if you need anymore information with what I am working with just continue to let me know. Thanks.
Ryan

[David Hames]

Here’s an out from left field thought–2 actually. It be that the image is a field off. A couple of options to rectify this. Use the Shift Fields filter (It’s under video effects/video) Or you could nudge the image up or down a tick under the motion tab. Of course, if this fixes the problem then it means there’s a discrepancy between your AE settings and FCP.

When I use the text tool and move it around on the canvas, sometimes it will land on a spot that it’s straddling two fields which makes it look bad–an option-up/down arrow usually fixes it.

Anyway, I hope this helps.

Where in Colorado are you? I’m in the Springs, and the white stuff has been coming down most of the day.

-David

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