AE, FCP, & compression (for HD 15-min short animated film)

[Darby Edelen]

[Mardo El-noor] “how can i edit a full resolution renders of these shots as the Mac can’t handle the load?? where is the best place to apply compression???”

What do you mean the Mac can’t handle the load? We regularly edit 1920×1080 HD material in Final Cut Pro. You may need to change your sequence settings to match the AE renders, otherwise you will constantly be forced to render in FCP to conform the footage to the sequence settings.

I wouldn’t compress anything until the very end when you need to create the deliverable (and if you’re delivering on a hard drive, don’t even compress it then!). You may need to find out exactly what the film festivals will require.

Darby Edelen
Designer
Left Coast Digital
Santa Cruz, CA

[Mardo El-noor]

thanks for replying…

i failed to mention that the ONLY uncompressed 1080X1920 full res render i can get from AE current settings is 9.2GB a minute… in AE, all shots have 10 to 50 photoshop layers, some HD video footage, & some have light effects…

thanks

Mardo El-Noor
Freelance Animator
auckland, New Zealand

[Steve Roberts]

Sorry, but you’re not telling us what the problem is.

Is the computer crashing? When?
Are you running out of hard drive space?
Is rendering too slow and you’ll miss the deadline?

Let us know.

[Mardo El-noor]

i should’ve been a bit clearer…

with files of this size (9GB/min), i can’t view them on QT (it stops, becomes jittery, or it crashes, even on the MAc with the aforementioned specs)… it takes a very long time to do ANYTHING with them in FCP… & yes, the Mac computer crashes occasionally..

thanks a lot

Mardo El-Noor
Freelance Animator
auckland, New Zealand