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After Effects-> Magic Bullet -> Final Cut -> Compressor (or BitVice) = Ugly?
Hi Guys,
I captured HDV in FCP 5. Edited it, sent bits of it out to Shake for compositing, all was well… then exported the timeline to After Effects via Animation Codec. Added Magic Bullet (made it 29.97p, added film look, broadcast safe) and rendered that via Animation Codec.
Brought that into FCP to add my titles and credit scroll. Scaled my 1080 to 720×486.
Exported that via Compressor to “DVD 90 minutes Best 16×9”.
The result is very, very dark. Much darker and uglier than it looked in After Effects and FCP via my broadcast monitor.
Any ideas?
Thanks- this is a deadline issue problem 🙁
Pat
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OK, a test:
I scaled and rendered the nice 29.97p Magic Bullet’d file out of After Effects as animation codec and then used compressor to create the DVD file.
It is NOTICEABLY lighter and more true to what I see onscreen than the version I brought into FCP.
Which tells me, perhaps, I need to do some sort of adjustment to the AEFX file before bringing it into FCP.
Chris Meyers says to do an adjustment layer to bring the colors back to video format.
But I thought the Magic Bullet Broadcast Safe filter woulda done that for me…
Or that After Effects made this automatic by now…
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