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Need help importing AE file into Avid Xpress Pro
Hello there, I have been building a lower third on AE and I have been exporting it as a QT movie file with an ‘Animation’ format setting. When I open the QT file, it plays back smoothly and the image is crisp, however when I import it into Avid Xpress Pro, there is a significant loss of quality.
The lower third appears pixelated and theres a significant loss of color once i import into Avid, I have tried to import and export numerous amount of times with no results. If theres anyone that has experienced this type of problem and has a solution I would be most grateful!!
Thanks a bunch.
-Milner
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2 Replies
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i think this may be an import issue… you may be better posting this in the avid forum for a more informed solution. but i have provided graphics to avid editors (i have not used avid myself), and i worked with a guy who seemed to be having a similar issue with a still graphic (a jpeg, i believe). what i noticed when he imported the file was that he was not importing it as rgb, and while the image looked ok at first, when he rendered it it looked like crap (jaggy edges, color was bad).
ae works in rgb and avid works in 601 color space, so you need to tell avid that the file you are importing is an rgb file so it can convert it, and i think that is done in the import settings window.
i hope this helps. if not try posting in the avid forum.
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I have had this exact same problem as well. One thing you have to make sure you are doing is using the “Make Movie” option instead of export. Hopefully this isn’t too contrived, but when I first started out with AE I was trying the export option, which was always lower quality for me. Like moldyboot was saying, you also have to fix some of the import settings in Avid. One more thing- Avid has a strange version of 16:9 (853×480 I think) and it helps to use that ratio in AE.
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