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AE makes my footage hazy
Herd, please help. I’ve got a bunch of footage shot at 1080p/24 with a Sony XDCAM. The footage is destined for a SD cable channel, so I’m using AE to downconvert to SD/29.97. However, AE seems to be putting a haze on my clips. It’s the wierdest thing ever. It’s like I’m viewing my footage through smog or something. I can mostly fix it by color-correcting in FCP, but what a hassle.
The original footage from the camera looks sweet, but I’ve not encountered this haze before. Any ideas? Moo.
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No clue, sorry.
But what happens if you do the conversion in FCP?bogiesan
This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”
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That’s what I’ve been doing, but when I dump the HD footage into a SD FCP timeline, it gets sorta crappy looking. It had been suggested to me by one of the FCP shazzam elders (sorry…did I just date myself with that one?) that FCP does a rather poor job downconverting HD to SD, which is why I used AE.
No offense taken by your signature. The AE manual doesn’t address “haze” 🙂
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