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fields problems between AE – FCP
hey guys
i’ve already searched a bit but i can’t really find an explanation.
so, i made a map with illustrator, imported it in AE in order to make some small animations and then import it in my timeline in FCP. i render in AE with animation codec and separate fields lower first (like in my DV timeline in FCP). but when i import the file in FCP the fields are “none”. i’ve tried different solution, export (render) in DV, uncompressed, change the fields settings, but still it appears as a none fileds file. this affect a lot the quality of my animation in the timeline, and it gets better (obviously) only if i put the whole timeline as a none fields one.
any idea/suggestion? thanks a lot in advance!Michele Stocco
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thanks Dave! i already tried it but i was mistaking the way to change the fields (i was clicking ctrl-click on the clip in the browser and not on the fields of the single clip… quite stupid moreover that i knew that…).
i ask to you (or to who can help me 🙂 one more thing. i need this for a DVD, and i saw that if i do the export starting from the DV timeline and making a m2v, when i burn it i see that the quality of the AE files is quite low anyway (kinda broken) when watching it with a computer monitor, but it’s ok when watching it with a tube television.
i duplicated the timeline and made it with animation codec, and the quality of the AE files is definitively better on the computer monitor (anyway i can’t see really any difference in the television one), but i can’t really understand what happens to my footage. i see that the contrast is stronger in the export made from the animation timeline, maybe a little bit too dark… but anyway in my case it looks better.
i can’t understand if i am loosing something somewhere. changing the compression of the timeline in which way affects exactly my original footage? if i’m using a better compression (i.e. animation or uncompressed) does it affect the original footage or it just leaves it with the same quality? i wouldn’t change the compression of the whole timeline, but i can see that in this way the quality of the AE files is much better.Michele Stocco
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[Dave LaRonde] “You can then drag the file onto the Compressor icon, and choose the least amount of compression possible to make the MPEG2 file (m2v)– don’t forget you’ll also need to make an audio file in Compressor to use when you author in DVD Studio Pro.”
DO NOT set you max bit rate to be higher than 7 mbps. Encoding at too high of a bit rate can cause a ton of problems. Many dvd players will not be able to keep up.
Joey -
thanks guys!
i know all the problems i can get with a too high bitrate.
about this method of change the codec of the timeline, exporting a self-contained movie and drag it in compressor i’ll give it a try now. i’ve already listened to this kind of operation, instead of going directly to compressor, make a self contained movie and then drag it into compressor. what’s the difference between going directly from FCP to Compressor and this method? i mean, going directly does it affect the final quality of the .m2v?
and if i let DVD studio pro working the self-contained movie? i can imagine that since this software has been thought as a DVD authoring one, and not as a comrpessor one, the work that it does is kinda “dirty”. but since my monitor is a crappy low resolution one (i hope my boss will buy a new one soon…) i can’t really see the difference.Michele Stocco
Editor/Post-production technician
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