Animation vs DVCPRO HD

[Todd Kopriva]

> I tried exporting using animation format a few times, but the motion looked jerky, maybe I did something wrong.

Did the motion just look jerky in QuickTime Player? You can’t expect intermediate formats (with their huge data rates) to play back smoothly like distribution formats. Your hard drive, the decoder, and other aspects of the system may just be struggling to keep up when playing the movie back. This is a non-issue when you’re using the movie as a source in an editing application, etc.

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[Steve Roberts]

I render out of AE (picky, picky) to the Animation codec, then use Quicktime Player to export that clip to DVCPROHD for FCP editing.

Rendering to DVCPROHD straight out of AE has resulted in less-than-optimal clips for me. (shrug)

[Maxime Marquis]

Thanks for your quick reply.

Steve, I’ll try to render out of AE the way you do it.

Max