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Export for best/full quality (uncompressed)?
I’ve been using export to quicktime with current settings to export stuff uncompressed, as that’s what someone here told me. I’ve been sending various footage out to FX guys to have them alter the image and return it to me, so I need it at the highest quality. However, I had an FX guy come over and grab some footage, and he exported it using quicktime conversion, animation settings, and best quality, and it was better quality than what I presumed was the “highest.” Anyway, what IS the best way to export full quality to have someone else edit the image and return it to be dropped back into the timeline?
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The settings he used are very high quality, however I don’t believe you can improve on the settings you’ve been using. He likely needed that format for the software and hardware he’s using, and not because it’s “better”. It’s not… it’s just cross platform. You can’t improve anything by converting it to another format. The original recording is as good as it will ever be (setting aside color correction).
You can’t add information that wasn’t originally recorded is what I’m saying.
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Yes, I understand that, thank you. However, the quality of his export (same file type, mind you, an .MOV) is clearly better quality, which leads me to believe the method with which I’ve been exporting ISN’T full quality, and IS compressed. But you’re telling me it IS full quality, however he is somehow getting a better quality export?
He’s using Motion/After Effects, both for Mac, and I’m using Final Cut.
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You didn’t mention your original codec – but exporting uncompressed is fine. You doing it the best u can now.
If you sent him 1 file 8 or 10 bit uncompressed and 1 file Animation codec – u’d be hard pressed to see the diff.Chris Tompkins
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That’s the issue, I am absolutely seeing a difference between the way he exported and the way I exported, going to export with quicktime, current settings (presumably meaning the current camera settings?), and going that way.
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