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AE supers look bad in ProRes422 timeline
When exporting supers in AE in the Animation codec with alpha, they look great in an Uncompressed FCP timeline, but jaggedy in a ProRess timeline. I’ve also tried PNG with alpha with the same outcome. Anyone know how to get around this?
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7 Replies
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Yeah, make sure your window viewer is at 50% or 100%. If in “scale to fit” mode, it will look jaggedy. Problem is NOT with lossless + alpha or Prorez. Use it all the time (Also try ProRez 444 with Alpha to coincide with the prorez footage/timeline. File sizes are much smaller, but look fantastic)
Tim
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Ok, this is strange. It seems that sometimes the supers look bad, and sometimes they don’t. I made a new timeline, also ProRes, and copied everything from the original ProRes timeline to it, and the supers from AE were perfectly sharp. Strange.
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Tim,
Yes, the window size was not an issue. I had both windows at 100%.
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Tim,
Also, the problem persisted in the quicktime output also. I just don’t know what the difference between the two timelines is. They are the same size (1920×1080), same framerate, same codec.
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Tim,
I’m not seeing the ProRes444 option in my AE. Where can I find this?
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Dave,
It’s not a field thing. The fact that it looks good in one timeline and not another identical one is the strange thing.
Also, I figured out that ProRes444 comes with stuido 3, it’s not in 2. Another good reason for us to upgrade here.
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Dave,
Yup, it turns out the bad timeline had a field dominance of none, the good one of Upper. I’m not sure how I ended up editing in a timeline with no field dominance, I suspect it came from dropping in some footage and saying Yes to making the timeline change to match that footage.
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