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HELP!!! best codec for an animation project in ae
Hi..
i am searching for the best solution for my movie i did in ae. it is an animation with some title and credits at the end. a friend of mine rendered it out at his company because they have more powerful computers than mine. now i am really unhappy with what came out. we used the blackmagic 10 bit output settings and exported it as quicktime/ best settings/ resolution full. its footage is in the size of 1000x 750 pixels and it really looks nice in ae. he than used this material and put it in final cut for editing and than rendered out a uncompressed and a sorenson 3 quicktime version but all are really shitty in my eyes. dont know if the guy does really know what he is doing or if he is just to lazy to do much work for my movie. i am thinking about rendering it new because i really dont like it. it is for my prediploma and it needs to be a really good qualitiy also because it will be shown really big on a projector for the final presentation.
here you can see the quality of the uncompressed movie from final cut to quicktime (this is also very bad i think)
https://imagesup.de/picture.php?code=dd9er5tx9jnur6xyio5i
this is the same resoultion with the character in the frame
https://imagesup.de/picture.php?code=mhpvlk51xsje7rx6kjo9and here is the sorenson 3 version…
https://imagesup.de/picture.php?code=aonozc5xhasajdaq786ecan you tell me if i am able to do it better?
i am really unsatisfied..also all the lines of for example eyes of the character (original is vector!)swf are not antialiased…please help…i dont have much time left for the project but i want it to be nice..
best regards
sabina -
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now i have the data of the project at home and i see that the final rendering of ae is just fine..everything perfect..so it must be the problem in final cut..is there any professional codec for animation which does fine output and also plays the movie in realtime? i dont know which one to choose because there are too many…
i would be really happy if someone who knows what to do, would respond to this thread…
thanx in advance..
sabina -
Wow, that does look pretty bad. I don’t use a mac, and thus don’t use final cut, but as long as you use uncompressed, or use the animation codec, then it should be lossless and the codec shouldn’t be the reason for any quality loss.
Check to make sure final cut isn’t resizing or deinterlacing the video, or something like that.
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yeah the problem is that i did the movie in after effects in size 1000×750 pixels and because it is an unconventional format i got to resize it in final cut because it has to be for pal 720×576 pixels. but i thought that resizing (in particular making it smaller) doesnt affect the look. i just thought that making it bigger would make a difference? am i wrong?
it is too much work to make all the scenes in ae smaller because i got to scale a lot of layers than and renderings are ready and in fine quality :/do you have an idea how to make it look fine again?
perhaps.. i thought to put the already rendered stuff again in ae and make a new resized comp and than render again.. that wouldnt be that much work and will go fast.. you think thats ok?best regards
sabina -
Yea, try resizing it in a new after effects comp.
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