Final Cut – After effects

[Shane Ross]

Machines without FCP cannot view the HDV codec. When you exported from FCP as a QT movie, you kept the HDV settings, and they couldn’t see it.

Export as ProRes or the Animation codec. They will have to export to the animation codec to get it back to you.

Shane

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[Adam Taylor]

i thought the AE system needed to have FCP installed to use the Prores codecs?
but i may be wrong.

As AE works across macs and pc’s, it might be worth asking the AE operator what file types he needs.

Adam Taylor
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[Walter Soyka]

[adam taylor] “i thought the AE system needed to have FCP installed to use the Prores codecs?”

FCP must be installed to be able to encode ProRes, but ProRes can be decoded on both Mac and Windows platforms. The most recent version of Quicktime includes a ProRes decoder. For older versions of Quicktime, there are also separate decoders available for free download from Apple:
https://support.apple.com/downloads/Apple_ProRes_QuickTime_Decoder_1_0_for_Mac
https://support.apple.com/downloads/Apple_ProRes_QuickTime_Decoder_1_0_for_Windows

If the artist is using CS3, there will be a gamma shift in AE on ProRes footage with the default interpretation rules. The solution to this problem is here.

[Shannon Bedford] “What settings should I be using? My vision is HDV1080i50 and I have my timeline set to match.”

Unless you are going back to HDV tape, you might consider transcoding and working in ProRes timeline. HDV is very heavily compressed, and it’s not really suitable for effects work.

Walter Soyka
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