Best export solution

[Walter Biscardi]

[Jimmy Van Houdt] “First: what is the best export option when it comes to exporting your cut video to import it in after effects (so it can lateron be put on dvd)? Should I go uncompressed or work with the default quicktime export that looks to me not soo crisp and full of blocks.”

You export it in the same format that you cut with in Final Cut Pro. It’s not going to get any more crisp or add any quality to your video by changing the export format.

[Jimmy Van Houdt] “Or should I export sorenson3 compressed, or H264? The last one takes still ages to export (on my macpro 2.66).”

Compressing the video add more noise and artifacts. Leave it in the original format.

[Jimmy Van Houdt] “Second: Is there an easy way to add subtitles to a video externaly so that you just need to import them in fcp and don’t need to do this by hand.”

Not that I know of, unless there’s a third party plug-in out there.

[Jimmy Van Houdt] “I thought it was to define for example which target track to paste to in case of a copy, but that doens’t seem to be the fact. Anybody?”

Yes, that does select which track to Paste to. You Option Select the track you want to paste to.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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[Jimmy Van houdt]

Hi,

Thanks for the quick reply.

Regarding question 3:

I’ll check the paste option once more. Must get it to work then.

Regarding question 1:

What I noticed was that when I exported standard qt from fcp that there seemed to be more artifacts than in the original footage that came from the camera. Still when compared, 13GB for 1 hour tape versus the 1GB for 5 minutes fcp default qt export, the quality should at least be equal to the imported camera footage, no? So why does it look less crisp? I don’t want to start with less quality when going into AE. And what is the diffence between the 8bit and 10 bit uncompressed exports?

So if I imported like say sorenson3 compressed footage in AE, is it decompressed before being processed, or will my actions on these video files happen on the compressed footage right away?

My concern: do I loose quality when for example exporting compressed, doing some manipulation in AE and re-importing in FCP in order to then export uncompressed from there?

Thanks again!

[Simon Blackledge]

If you don’t want to loose quality and your doing more work elsewhere use uncompressed..

then compress for delivery if you must.

You want to exort “as is”

s

[Jimmy Van houdt]

Tx,

So should I go for 8bit or 10bit?

Jimmy

[Walter Biscardi]

[Jimmy Van Houdt] “What I noticed was that when I exported standard qt from fcp that there seemed to be more artifacts than in the original footage that came from the camera.”

Are you looking at this on an external NTSC or PAL monitor or on your computer screen? You should be looking on a true television monitor.

[Jimmy Van Houdt] “My concern: do I loose quality when for example exporting compressed, doing some manipulation in AE and re-importing in FCP in order to then export uncompressed from there?”

Any and all re-compression of footage adds noise. Staying in the native format throughout will yield the cleanest results where possible.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Broadcast and independent productions.

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