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exporting uncompressed
I am unfamiliar with how to export uncompressed from ae 5.5. which setting do i use? I am having trouble including an animation into a fcp timeline that maintains it’s quailty once exported from that program with dv/ntsc settings. I’ve been told on here that fcp doesn’t handle animation well. Getting a useable animation from ae should be the simplest thing to do in my opinion but I can’t figure out how to do it, so it can be added to a parent timeline in fcp??
What if i had video under the animation? All these formats are giving me a headache.
It is a very simple animation but comes out of fcp looking very bad. -
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I don’t know FCP but exporting Uncompressed from AE is just choosing Lossless in the Render Queue (will give you Uncompressed AVI, probably not what you want), most folks Choose QuickTime – Animation Codec, just double click the blue Lossless in the output module (or drill down in the Output Module), then – Format (at the top of the Output Module now),
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Format Options > Choose “Animation” from the Compression Type dropdown, and Slider to “Best” and be sure and choose “Millions of Colors +” if you want an alpha, the “+” is what gives you the alpha.
Render and you get a QuickTime that’s lossless.
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On a Mac, the “Lossless” Output Module will save you an Animation codec Quicktime. So long as you use the NTSC DV presets in AE and FCP, you should be fine. You may want to enable field rendering in the Render settings (lower field first for DV).
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Well, uncompressed means uncompressed, not DV 🙂
Animation is a lossless/uncompressed (see post about Animation/Meriden codecs today for more on that), but it’s not the native codec FCP uses when editing an uncompressed timeline (although Animation is still used when you need to embed transparency information).FCP uses the Apple Uncompressed codecs (8 bit and 10 bit versions) when you set it for uncompressed editing. As long as you have an Apple Pro applcation (FCP/Motion/DVD SP) the Apple Uncompressed codecs will be available for you to use in AE. If your computer doesn’t have those apps installed, no problem: the free Blackmagic Design Quicktime codecs (you can dl them from the BMD site) are totally compatible with the Apple UC codecs.
Hope this helps.Adolfo Rozenfeld
Buenos Aires – Argentina
https://www.adolforozenfeld.com
adolfo@adolforozenfeld.com
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