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AE to FCP
Hello!
Lately I’ve been having trouble going between FCP and AE. I do all of my effects in AE, so when I bring the footage in and render it out of AE in lossless quality and bring it into FCP and render the final product from there, the scenes that had AE work aren’t top notch quality. Does anyone know how to go about this without loosing quality between the two programs?
Thanks!!!
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8 Replies
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Hi stephen,
A bit more of info, please: Footage and setting when export from AE at least.
rafael -
Sorry, I forgot to add, In no one of the processes of the MP4 files to QT, MFX or played through Calibrated, here is any re-compression. Re-wrapping or reading the original file. Never quality lost or processing time.
Rafael -
Footage is normal DV footage at 720 x 480. I export using the render que at lossless quality, best settings, .mov file with no compression.
Any more info that would be helpful?
-Stephen
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Render at least at 16b and export to Prores.
If AE have a Chroma Filter (411 to 422) apply it in all the clips as the first filter.
What you get should look much better than when exporting to DV.
Stephan, rule of thumb: Whenever you have to render try to do it to a better codec than the original.
50% of the beauty and quality that you can add to your pictures in AE, will be destroyed if you export back to DV. The same counts for FC.
Rafael -
Thank you for the advice!! I will do a few tests according to your instructions, however, what do you mean by a better codec than the original? Could you give me an example?
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Stephan,
DV is already very compressed. If you work the picture a bit you can improve very much that picture, but to hold this improved picture you need to export to a codec that allows so.
DV is 8b 411 (ntsc) you should export (at least) to DVCPro50 (8b/422). Better option Prores (10b 422). Exporting back to DV is trashing again half of the picture color. And if you re-export again in FC, you will kill it.
Believe me, if you treat your DV footage properly, nobody will be able to tell that the original footage was DV.
rafael -
Thank you very much Rafael!!! I appreciate it!!!
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Stephen,
Have a look to the Nattress “Chroma Smooth/Sharpen”.
Apply the filter in the clips and change your sequence to Prores. Set “Render all YUV material in High Precision”.
Give a little bit of contrast to the pictures and export.
You will be really surprised.
rafael
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