Lossless formats and effects

[Todd Kopriva]

> I am guessing they are intralaced… Do you know of a way to “fix” this?

If you are working with interlaced footage in After Effects, be sure to separate fields.

> The whole reason for this post was the fact that after effects seems to hate the m2ts files from my Sony Camera.

The best thing to do in that case is to transcode to another format. You can work with losslessly encoded movies, with images sequences, et cetera.

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[Eric Robinsan]

Right, I guess I meant interframe compression. I get the interlaced and intralaced thing confused. My fault. Thank you for your response though!

[Eric Robinsan]

Thank you. I will try separate fields and let you know.

[Eric Robinsan]

I tried separating the fields and that did not work any better, so I assume I will just have to transcode the footage into another format. I know that uncompressed AVI looks just about as good as the original, but I also find that I get those results with h.264blu-ray or mpeg2 blur ray (m2v) I never heard anyone recommend those and I was wondering why.

I have read that many use QT with the animation or PNG codec, but I can tell a difference visually with them. Formats like FLV or F4V may look the same as the original, but I might be loosing subtle colors that are helpful with effects.

Which files do you (or anyone else) recommend I transcode to and why?

Thanks!