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Exporting HDV to After Effects
I am currently editing a project shot in HDV on the Z1 using Final Cut Pro 5 on an Apple G5. The special effects guy will be creating the opening title sequence using After Effects on a 3.2ghz 1gig ram PC. My plan is to export HD res footage for the special effects guy to create the opening sequence. We tried using the Animation Codec but the files seem to large and unwieldy to work with. Can someone with experience in this area please suggest a codec that might be a good balance between retaining the high production values of HD, while being of a size reasonable to work with on a moderately powered PC. The idea being that when I bring the completed title sequence back into my HDV project the resolution will match.
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6 Replies
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Hi Klaus,
I havn’t heard of anyone using it for HD but you should check out Digital Anarchy’s Microcosm codec
https://www.digitalanarchy.com/micro/micro_main.html
If you have any doubts download a demo or drop an e-mail to DA head honcho Jim Tierney who is a well helpful dude
Angus
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Try using Cineform HDV AVI… You really want to keep it in its native compressed format – its not worth it doing it any other way.
-Greg
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Keeping in mind that Cineform HD AVI may not be its native format…
-Greg
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>>>We tried using the Animation Codec but the files seem to large and unwieldy to work with.
Sorry, but that’s the reality of actual high definition video. If you want to retain quality through the visual effects process, you can’t use compressed files. If the animation compressed files are “too large and unwieldy,” you need to have the visual effects company get bigger hard drives, more memory, and faster PC’s, just like those of us who work professionally with HD had to do.
The fact is that a high definition frame is 6 times as large as a standard definition frame. Pretending that they’re the same thing, as HDV tries to do, doesn’t change that fact when quality needs to be maintained.
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You can also try Photo-JPEG Quicktime at 89 or 94%.
Steve
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My workflows always entails me using PNG encoding as it is Lossless Compression, similar to the Animation codec. If that is also too large, my fallback would definitely be JPEG encoding as Steve Roberts suggested. I have not had to use anything other than PNG as it has worked for me perfectly over time but JPG will certainly offer you big savings without degrading your images much at all.
Alpay Kasal
Artist/Engineer
https://www.NYCRenderfarm.com
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