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avid xpress pro hd and after effects
Good day avid fans,
I am working on mograph for a client editing in express pro HD. They are working in NTSC Anamorphic and I was wondering what the best setting and codec to use. I am planning to to my comps 864×486, rendering to 720×486 (lower field) QT animation files. Is there a better Avid codecI should use?
Thanks in advance!!
Todd Morgan
Creative Director
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3 Replies
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the plan sounds good, build your main comp in a d1 widescreen square pixel preset, take that to a d1 widescreen nonsqr pixel (1.33) comp.
avid won’t have a better quality codec than lossless animation, but if you knew what type of compression they were using for footage in xpress pro (like avid dv, meridien 1:1) you could streamline their process by not forcing them to convert the movs. like lossless, the meridien codec also supports alpha channels, if that matters.
i would still render to lossless, but if you find out what they are using, you should be able to add an output module for that codec when you render. then you’ll only render once and create two different files, one lossless mov and the other avid version. they can then choose which works best, and it will look like you did all this extra work for them. 😉
also, make sure you let them know if the lossless animation files are in rgb color space, or 601… i believe the avid codecs will either convert it or encode it so that avid will know the color space, i know that avid meridien will work this way.
you should be able to find all the latest avid codecs on their site, i know a link has been posted here before.
Kevin Camp
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Either way will work. You can leave your comp at SQ pixels as well if you want, Avid will import it fine and correct aspect using the “601/709 non-square” import settings.
You can download the avid codecs from Avid’s website. Using them will speed up the import into avid considerably over using the animation codec. You will need to use 720×486 if you choose to use the Avid codec.
I tend to export using the QT animation codec so that I can choose my res (dv25, dv50, 1:1) on import depending on my needs.Erik
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Thanks a bunch! I thought so, as I have worked with Avid Meridian in the past, but this is the first client I am working with editing on xpress pro hd.
Cheers!
Todd Morgan
Creative Director
morgancreative
http://www.morgancreative.biz
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