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After Effects to FCP
Hey Guys,
I just finished editing a commercial for national broadcast. Everything looked great until I burned a DVD (as a Master) in Studio Pro, and monitor shows some visible distortion, not present on my master file, which I am sending to the network. Will that distortion be present when shown on TV?
Here’s the breakdown. I did almost the entire thing in After Effects. The problem is within my 3D space sent from AE to FCP. I finished the main part of it in AE, added to render que as an Animation. Imported into FCP, and exported out of FCP (when I was done adding the other components) using Apple ProRes. The file is perfect, the DVD, however is not. Is there a way to fix this?
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10 Replies
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It’s difficult to know what you are talking about without a screenshot of some sort. When you say “distortion”, I can’t imagine what you are talking about.
To prevent issues like this (and to waste fewer DVD blanks), I usually monitor as I am working (with an external monitor not the computer) to catch any problems with graphics from the get go.
Kevin Monahan
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Are you dragging your pro res file into DVD Studio pro and letting that do the compression? If so, you should drag the file into compressor and use one of their highest quality DVD templates. It will do a better job.
Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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[Dave LaRonde] “That ain’t no master, that’s a disaster.”
ha ha thanks for the monday morning laugh Dave.
Matt it might also be distorted because its anamorphic and was
not encoded or flagged anamorphic. does everything appear vertically stretched? -
Sorry if I was unclear. The master dvd is only for us. The master file, we are sending off to the network for broadcast (it’s fine). My concern was, is that distortion going to appear when they do the transfer to Beta SP for broadcast.
I encoded the spot in Compressor, and burned in Studio Pro, and the same distortion still remains. Could the problem be in AE to FCP. Should I export out of AE using ProRes instead of “Animation?”
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No it doesn’t appear stretched.
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Come to find out, looks like our Monitor is causing the distortion. Same DVD played in my computer looks just fine. I’m guessing the ProRes master file should be fine when converted by the network?
As a secondary question for the future, should I export my 3D stuff out of AE as ProRes (imported into FCP) or keep using AE Animation codec?
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it really doesn’t matter if you export animation or prores.
only real difference is prores will play in realtime without rendering.
the animation won’t.now if you need alpha channel intact (in fcp) on export, then animation
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If you can output ProRes, then that is better than transcoding Animation (8bit) to ProRes (10bit) in FCP.
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[Chris Borjis] “now if you need alpha channel intact (in fcp) on export, then animation
would be necessary.
“Pro Res 4444 has an alpha that plays in real time in FCP (if you have the horsepower). Make sure to select millions of colors+ on the output dialog.
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[Will Salley] “Pro Res 4444 has an alpha”
yeah I forgot to mention that… but my suggestion was for those
that may not have fcp 7 yet.
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