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from AE to FCP to tape
Hey to those reading,
The Problem:
I have an 15sec animation that has been created in AE. It is for broadcast TV (PAL) and i need to get it onto a DV tape. My understanding is that this can’t be done directly from AE but from FCP however when i import the movie file into FCP it looses heaps of quality.How do I go about getting video from AE onto DV tape without loosing quality.
The Solution:
I’m totally openThanks,
Dan -
3 Replies
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I’ve never had this problem – export from AE as animation – drop into your FCP prject and export as uncompressed 8bit – PAL, if you’re using.
Note – FCP can have issues laying off 8bit files to tape – if you have a RAID – drop the 8bit to the raid and have the sequence read the file from there. Sometimes FCP will drop frames if reading 8bit from local drives.
Good luck.
Josh
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Any material that needs to go onto DV tape has to be compressed to the DV codec:
– mini DV tape: DV25 (the usual stuff)
– DVCPRO tape: DV50 (DVCPRO50)
– DVCPROHD tape: DV100 (DVCPROHD)
All are variants of the DV codec, but at data rates of 25,50,100 Mbps respectively. I’m assuming you’re going to MiniDV.
DV is a lossy codec. The quality loss from preview to compression is unavoidable, whether it happens when rendering in AE or FCP.Here’s what I’d do:
1) make sure the comp has no saturated reds in it.
2) render in AE to the DV codec.
3) import the rendered file into FCP, and drag into a DV sequence so there’s no recompression.
4) play out to DV. -
or you could render out from AE as animation and then let FCP render to DV. This way you’ll always have a high quality, uncompressed master file to use if you ever need to compress it to a different format. (like mpeg 2 for dvd)
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