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HD in After Effects
Hi,
I’m editing my first HD project. It was shot on the new Panasonic and I imported the files into FCP from the P2 cards. All of the cuts are layed out now I want to do some basic motion graphics in AE 7.
How should I export the footage to use in After Effects 7?
How do I export the footage from AE7 and bring it back into FCP?The format is DVCPROHD 1080i60 1280×1080 29.97 fps
I’m scared of quality loss during all of this exporting. If this has been answered already i would be grateful if you could direct me. Thank you. -
3 Replies
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Export uncompressed and you wont lose anything.
You need ALOT of hard drive space to edit HD, you might want to export out ONLY the footage you need. -
If you did cuts-only in FCP, you can export using “current settings” to keep everything in DVCPROHD. There will be no recompression if your sequence settings are DVCPROHD and you had no rendering in FCP.
Import into AE. The clips may come in as 1280×720 square pixels or 960×720 non-square. If it looks wrong in a footage window, re-interpret using the other setting above.
Do your magic.
Render to uncompressed (lossless, animation codec) if you expect to take the clips somewhere else. Render to another codec if you’re done with it. You can render back to DVCPROHD if you expect to take it back into the FCP sequence, thoguh you want to avoid doing more recompression after that. DVCPROHD is 100Mb/sec, which beats DV at 25 Mb/sec, but you don’t want to push it.
To give a really good answer, we need to know your exact workflow order: app-to-app and final deliverable.
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use EDIUS pro 4 to import the clips and from there you can export uncompressed ..be sure to look at your clips info for determing the correct format size when making a new project in edius.
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