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AE to FC: animation or DV?
I’ve been digging through posts on the cow, but now I’m even more confused, hope somebody can enlighten me on this one:
For an NTSC broadcast my final output medium will be a DVCPRO tape.
-I started in After Effects, rendered the animation in Quicktime/8bit-Animation-100%/field render OFF.
-I imported the file into Final Cut, and put it on the timeline. (In this case, I basically use FC as a player, exporting the video through firewire to DVCPRO.)
-sequence settings: DVCPRO/RGB/best/lower fields firstIs this the best possible workflow? Should I render from AE in 16bit?
Thanks in advance,
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For broadcast DV 8-bit is fine – it’s FCP’s native uncompressed format so everything plays on the fly. You can use Animation or None but you end up having to render and re-render everything in FCP. If you’re REALLY worried about quality you can use DV 16-bit but it’s not neccessary and will slow down your workflow in FCP if you need to do any further finishing to the final sequences. Once everything’s encoded to tape there isn’t any difference.
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Thanks a lot & thanks for the quick reply!
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[Eric Wais] “For broadcast DV 8-bit is fine – it’s FCP’s native uncompressed format so everything plays on the fly. You can use Animation or None but you end up having to render and re-render everything in FCP. If you’re REALLY worried about quality you can use DV 16-bit but it’s not neccessary and will slow down your workflow in FCP if you need to do any further finishing to the final sequences.”
DV is a HIGHLY compressed 8-bit only format, where can you set it to have a depth of 16-bits?
Are you talking about the Audio being 16-bit?
The best thing to do is to bring it in as animation and render it with the DVCPRO-50 codec if it really is going to DVCPRO tape. That way it will still look better than NTSC DV by itself.
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