FCP to AE without loss of quality

Steve Renard
December 19, 2008 at 4:33 pm

Export the clip from FCP in whatever format you are using to edit with – DV, Uncompressed 10-bit/8-bit, whatever. Use those same settings in AE and render out to that codec. Staying in the same codec should keep your quality high, and will probably solve the brightness issue, though if you’re colour correcting the clips in AE you should make sure you’re using a broadcast reference monitor for both AE and FCP so that you know you’re comparing apples and apples.

Hope this helps!
Steve
Brendan Coots
December 21, 2008 at 7:17 am

“Staying in the same codec should keep your quality high, and will probably solve the brightness issue”

That’s not really true. DV, DVCPRO, and in this case XDCAM are all heavily compressed codecs, so rendering out to that codec two more times (once from FCP and once from AE)is going to degrade your footage.

The best option is to stick to lossless or 8/10 bit uncompressed codecs when bouncing between apps. If there is a gamma shift once you pull it back into FCP, something was set incorrectly at some point in the pipeline.

Brendan Coots
Splitvision Digital
http://www.splitvisiondigital.com
Max Mustermann
January 5, 2009 at 12:16 pm

So, my way is the right one (with “Animatioan” as codec), only something was set incorrectly at some point in the pipeline?

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