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After Effects and NTSC
hello everyone,
i was just looking for some insight into how to prepare a project and export material in after effects for ntsc. i recently had to do add this text to a clip and here’s what happened. the clip i had came from a digibeta at full ntsc spec… frame size, rate, field order, etc. i imported it into my project and dropped it on the new composition icon so that a new composition with the clip’s specs would be created. i did my thing and at the time of exporting i checked field rendering and selected lower. exported with no compression etc. when i brought it in to final cut to lay it on my sequence, final cut had to render the clip for my timeline. i must have done something wrong because technically final cut should not have to render the clip i brought in from after effects. my timeline was set at 10 bit uncompressed and i did export from after effects with none as compression. maybe this had something to do with it.in any case, hopefully i can get more tips on what to watch out for when creating content for ntsc. thank you!
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[Carlos Cidre] ” did my thing and at the time of exporting i checked field rendering and selected lower. exported with no compression etc. when i brought it in to final cut to lay it on my sequence, final cut had to render the clip for my timeline. i must have done something wrong because technically final cut should not have to render the clip i brought in from after effects. “
You did not specify what your sequence settings were in FCP. You did not precisely match the AE clip to the sequence. But rendering out of AE to “NTSC” is not specific enough. You must select a codec and that had to be the same codec as your FCP timeline
“NTSC” isn’t really the issue, neither is the bit depth. NTSC is a set of specifications for the broadcasters, not for production resources. You can give a broadcaster any format.bogiesan
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