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Export lossles avi for PC question
HI
I have a friend who has edited a four min short on Final Cut Pro.
He wants me to do some basic grading etc in Adobe After Effects on my PC.
I am looking for an export option that will produce a lossles file that will open
in After Effects on my Pc. I will then do the work and return it as a lossles
for input into FCP. I would like the sound quality to be reduced also for file size.
If possible I would like to not use the reference clip option but create a new lossles clip for transport.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks Peter DexterPS I do not know which version of FCP he is using and at the time of writing he is unavailable.
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3 Replies
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Use the Animation codec. The file size will be huge, but it is the best lossless cross platform codec.
Shane
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Thanks for that. Nice tidy and neat solution.
On the phone I am sure that he said when he set the slider to best quality on that option it kept jumping back to med quality.
Any ideas what could cause this. ?
Thanks again
Peter -
I will through this in.
Make sure your keep your frame size to 720 480 as you do not want to perform any scaling to the orginal DV material as you may introduce interlacing problems.
ALso remember that you are changing from a 4:1:1 color space to a 4:4:4 color space and ultimately back to a 4:1:1 or 4:2:2 color space (depending on which codec you end up outptting with in FCP, but it won’t be 4:4:4 unles you have a raid that can handle the speed required and a deck that can accept 4:4:4 (Sony SR).
So before you run your film through all of that transcoding you might consider bumping it to a nice 4:2:2 codec (like DVCPRO50) and color grade it in FCP.
Just a couple of thoughts, that might save you a lot of useless effort and help you avoid potential problems.
David
Peace and Love 🙂
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