My New Year’s Resolution to fix Final Cut Pro

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Brandon Kraemer] “QT Conversion using… “

Never use QT Conversion in FCP, unless you need an alpha channel. Export a ‘Quicktime Movie’ and then use Compressor to do any codec conversions.

Jeremy

[Brandon Kraemer]

That is helpful, we often do export DPX sequences (Glue Tools QT Conversion) and shots that require alpha so it became our standard export method. While that proved to be the culprit, what if anything can be done to prevent color shift when exporting Animation with Alpha?

Thanks for your help.

bk

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Brandon Kraemer] “While that proved to be the culprit, what if anything can be done to prevent color shift when exporting Animation with Alpha? “

Unfortunately, FCP’s alpha channel support is dismal.

Let me revise by saying you can make your sequence codec Animation, then change the color to millions+ in the advanced section and then export a self contained and the alpha will hold true. Just be sure that your sequence is unrendered before exporting.

Okay, now, NEVER use QT conversion. 🙂