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mixing animation codec with DV timeline
Most of my work involves creating graphics in AE, exported with animation codec and cutting it into DV NTSC footage in FCP.
The problem is that the animation looks fugly when rendered into a DV sequence and I can’t do the whole job in an animation sequence or FCP freezes up.
Anyone have a decent workflow for not degrading the quality of the graphics before exporting for actual compression?
And I am aware that the latest FCP version allows for mixed media, but I dont have it. -
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Sure. Just make a copy of your sequence, open the copy (or work on the original sequence if you like) and change the sequence settings. Change the compressor from DV/DVCPRO to DV50 or uncompressed 8-bit 4:2:2. Render to view in RT. Should help your AE a lot. DV50 seems to be a good codec for this. David Roth Weiss has written very succinctly on this method on the Cow.
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I tested both DV50 and uncompressed 8 bit; it doesn’t change at all to my eye; there is still slight colour banding at points and it just doesn’t look ‘as good’ as if the AE footage was thrown into an animation sequence.
On a side note, I never realized you could throw DV NTSC footage into a DV50 timeline without having to re-render the timeline, so thats pretty cool.
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Yeah, the two DVs will play in each others’ timelines. Hmm, the Animation should look better, but there should be at least a noticeable difference between DV25 and either DV50 or UC 8-bit. I’d expect some banding in all, including Animation, since it’s 8-bit. Perhaps you should render your AE out as DV50 so that it does not require render in the timeline. Is that a possibility?
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