Export from FCP to format with square pixels & alpha…?

[Burt Holland]

Not sure about the pixel part, but for the alpha channel export as animation, millions of colors+, at 99% quality.

[Tore Jonssen]

Thanks, but I need info on how to export to a format that has square pixels…

[Pol]

Don’t export in square pixels, After effects can handle all sorts of aspect ratios.

[Tore Jonssen]

I know that too, but my client still wants square pixels

[Alan Lacey]

I’m a very naive FCP user, but can’t you just convert the sequence setting to 768×576 uncompressed and let FCP render it out?

Please don’t flame me if this is hopelessy wrong.

Alan

[Jeremy Garchow]

I would do a little work for your client. try exporting an animation with an alpha (millinois of colors+) and then take that movie into AE, you can then interpret the footage as square pix or non square pix. See if that works for you and then see if it works for them.

jg

[Tore Jonssen]

I tried that already, exported both QT Animation and .tga-animation with millions of colors +.
I don’t see any difference in the sharpness or quality if I interpret the footage differently, nor if I switch between square and D1/DV in the settings of my AE composition.

On another note, though, the .tga animation (and Quicktime with .tga compression) seems a lot sharper than the animation codec.

[Jeremy Garchow]

You don’t want to change the aspect ratio of your composition as that is for display purposes only, you want to interpret your footage in the project window. Select the clip in the project window (not the composition) and go to File>Interpret Footage>Main (or apple-f). Choose square pixels from the drop down menu, change it from D1/DV. You can then put that footage in a composition that has square pixels. Hit apple-n for a new composition and choose a preset comp with squre pixel dimensions, such as 640×480 or 720×540 square pixels. Drag your sq pixel interpreted footage into the sq pixel comp, and you see what you see. You will have to tell your client to do this too.

Jeremy

[Tore Jonssen]

Hi Jeremy!
I follow you so far, but my DV50 PAL footage is D1/DV (1,07) from FCP (720×576) and not square pixels. I’m afraid that aspect ratio will be wrong if I interpret it as being square pixels in AE?

[Tore Jonssen]

Hi Jeremy!
I follow you so far, but my DV50 PAL footage is D1/DV (1,07) from FCP (720×576) and not square pixels. I’m afraid that aspect ratio will be wrong if I interpret it as being square pixels in AE?