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After Effects pixelated font (very weird)
Hello!
I’m using a mac with Adobe After Effects 9 , Photoshop cs4 , Final Cut Pro 5.0.4
I purchased an adobe after effects project. A very simple one that is 10 seconds long where you put in your logo.I went into the project. inserted my logo saved in .psd format and then rendered the project. I took the .mov file and inserted it into final cut pro. Then I went to play it and the graphics were fine but my logo was pixelated and blurry.
I went back and viewed the .mov file on my desktop outside of final cut pro and it was fine (huge file so i couldnt play it smoothly but the logo was fine)
So I went back to after effects and checked settings to make sure that the cross line at the bottom for the logo was smooth and not blocked.
Im at a loss why the video clip in final cut pro is pixelated?
any ideas anyone? thanks
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23 Replies
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my best guess would be that it is an interlace issue… either you rendered progressive from ae (this would be the default) and imported in fcp as interlaced, or the other way around…
either way, if you import the render back into ae, at the top of the project window it should tell you how ae is interpreting the footage (progressive, separating lower, etc.), see if you can change the import setting in fcp to match the render.
Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
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I re-imported the rendered .mov back into AE and in the project info it only said this:
_Final Comp.mov
1920×1080 (1.00)
0:00:12:01, 29.97 fps
millions of colors
animationSo it didnt say anything about progressive, seperating lower, etc)
With that I am unable to know what import settings I need to chang into fcp to match the render.
Any other possibilities or suggestions?
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I just spent the last 3 hours trying to import and export in all different ways. My brain is fried and I keep seeing when i search in google other people having similar problems but no real solution.
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Check your Final Cut Pro Sequence Settings and make sure that they match the footage exactly.
Same Resolution.
Same Codec – Animation – Not NTSC/DV
Same Frame Rate
Same Pixel Aspect Ratio
Field Dominance Set to None.Starting with FCP 6, the sequence creation process became automated. With 5 you have to be more vigilant and make sure all this stuff matches up.
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Hello,
but what doesnt make sense is that even if I dont import anything into final cut pro and I just add text inside FCP at the end for example credits then it ends up all pixelated also!
I also imported a photoshop .psd file into fcp and that ened up pixelated also
same with Adobe after effects project
so if AE and FCP need to have same sequence settings which I still have not solved yet then how come fcp is giving the same problems with any and all text i try?
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Is there a colored bar (orange or yellow) above your clip in the sequence? This means you need to render.
Could you post a screen grab of your FCP UI, as well as one of your sequence settings?
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hello thanks for the help
the sequence color was red and what can you tell me what you mean by the UI settings?
I have attached pictures of
Adobe after effects settings I believe
what the logo looks like before its all pixelated in the exported AE .mov file
image of FCP sequence settings
image of what i looks like after all pixelated
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Have you tried just setting the Field Dominance to None?
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In your FCP Sequence Settings.
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