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DV Pal export from AE to FCP
I am editing some footage in FCP as DV PAL. I designed some graphic plates in Photoshop CS3, imported the PSD into AE and did some very basic text fade ins. I exported the comp as a Quicktime MOV using DV PAL to avoid the need for rendering in FCP but the exported MOV is very low res. My quality setting were set to high. Can anyone help me out? Is there any other way to export from AE so that I don’t need to render the MOV again in FCP?
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3 Replies
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Make sure you are outputting the file from After Effects using Composition>Add to Render Queue.
I would also recommend that you output your After Effects animations to Animation Codec Quicktime files. Graphics rendered to DV format look pretty sour since DV is highly compressed. You may want to render the file interlaced (which can be set in the render queue options), but even that isn’t totally necessary.
Even though you would be mixing formats in FCP (DV and Animation Codec) you will still get real-time playback and proper output provided you set your project/playback settings correctly. I am a CD not an editor, but I believe your FCP project settings should be set to use the Animation codec as the timeline/working codec and all is well.
Brendan Coots
Splitvision Digital
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Thank you for the help. The issue is that the footage to which I want to add the graphics is DV PAL hence timeline is DV PAL also, I’m editing from home so I don’t really have a monitor but the output is visibly low quality. I did render using other codecs and the quality was fine. What I’m thinking now is to output using Animation/Jpeg 2000/ None codec and then convert that MOV to DV PAL using MPEG Streamclip. Do you think that will work?
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Why would you convert it BACK to the format that is making your graphics look bad? DV is bad, end of story. If you want good quality, import the Animation codec graphics right into your edit, it should work just fine.
Brendan Coots
Splitvision Digital
http://www.splitvisiondigital.com
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