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Liney text from After Effects to Final Cut
Hi
I have a problem that’s been buggung me for weeks and I can’t think of a solution.
As I have used After Effects for years I tend to do my aninmations in After Effects not Final Cut Pro as I can work quicker this way, I render them out and import them into my Final Cut Pro Projects.
I have been dong this for a few years but I’ve noticed my Text animations are not looking as crisp as they should. If they are just sitting on the screen they look stepped, kind of liney and not at all sharp round the edges. I render them in the DV codec or even uncompressed but thet look the same when imported and rendered! I’m careful to get the field order right and even in animation codec with not fields rendered the result in FCP is always the same.I have a Decklink hooked up to a decent RGB Monitor, the animations look fine when previewing in After Effect, and as they render out. Once in FCP however they look terrible!
It is not a text size issue as a lot of them are chunky szeable texts. If I make a PICT overlay in AE of the same frame and bring that into FCP and overlay it over some video
the text looks great, even with fine text.I can’t remember it always being this way and I’m confused as to where this problem has crept in from. Is it Final Cut acting strange or After Effects? Has anyone else experienced this problem. I will post this on both forums and see if anyone can help
many thanks
Matt
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thanks for the response
I view everything on a Sony Broadcast Monitor via a decklink RGB component for After Effects and FCP. The field order is either off or Lower but the liney alliased text remains.
I think it is a codec issue, something is hapening in the compression. The appearance is not too disimilar to a bad chromakeyed edge when keying using
dv footage, PICT’s of the same text look fine.Matt
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