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Moving footage between aps: Degrades footage?
Hi guys !
Well I’ve been editing and compositing for several years and previously if I wanted to take footage out of Premiere, and plonk it into Fusion or After Effects I would just render out the file in its captured format.
Do my effects\colourisation ect, render out from that program in the captured format again, re-import the footage into Premiere, slot it into place, then finally render it out once more for the final cut. Then to be put onto DVD as a file or normal DVD.However, I was thinking that there is a lot of moving around and surely the quality must degrade after doing the recompressing ?
How do you guys normally do this ?
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Technically yes. This is recompressing. However whether its noticable by eye… left to the viewer. I use TGA sequences for any of my compositing output. So I never export from AE for PPro with a lossy codec. Lossless is always the best way to go. Eats up your HDD. But that way you’ll be getting the best possible results by the time you spit out the DVD which MPEG-2 is compressing down to a 40-1 ratio!
– Jon 🙂How many editors does it take to change a light bulb?
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Hi cheers for the response.
Yeah I normally use TGA for my 3d work, so it makes sense to do that then !‘How many editors does it take to change a light bulb?’
…no idea….?
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