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export settings for keying
Just wondering what the general consensus is with exporting from FCP to after effects with regards to compression settings. I have digitised miniDV via firewire and now exporting to AE. At the moment I am exporting using the animation codec at 100%. Is that the best way, or am I just churning through disc space and time for exporting and instead should be doing something else.
Any thoughts?
Trying to avoid any re compression of dv footage.
Cheers
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3 Replies
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Why not just open the DV captured clip in AE? You’ll not gain anything exporting it with the animation codec… General rule of thumb: the less you do to a media file once captured, the cleaner it stays…
Jerry
Apple Certified Trainer
Author: “Jerry Hofmann on Final Cut Pro 4” Click here
Dual 2 gig G5, AJA Kona SD, AJA Kona 2, Huge Systems Array UL3D
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yeah, I was tinkering with the export as a reference and I know it is just a reference back to the source clip. But it looked really bad. Really soft. The ani export as its own clip was better. Why is that?
Also, if you are exporting certain clips, and you turn off the box- “make self contained”, therefore in theory making it a ref clip, why do you still get the settings window to set the codec. If its a reference, that doesn’t make sense. Which one do I select?Cheers
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Should set it to use current. (the default setting)
Jerry
Apple Certified Trainer
Author: “Jerry Hofmann on Final Cut Pro 4” Click here
Dual 2 gig G5, AJA Kona SD, AJA Kona 2, Huge Systems Array UL3D
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