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Nothing HDV works out of AE in FCP 6?
Hey there,
Brought some HDV footage into After Effects 7.0, did some basic color correction, rendered it out 4 different ways: Animation, HDV, Photo-JPEG and 8 bit uncompressed.
None of it plays in real-time in FCP. I just upgraded to Final Cut 6.
I have been using the animation codec out of AE for over a year. Once I drop a sequence into Final Cut, it plays without a hitch.
Now, the sequence skips, jerks, stops, it simply won’t play, and I’m not getting any orange or red bars that indicate I need to transcode.
Even the 28 second clip I exported out of AE as HDV1080i60 doesn’t play in real time.
The only footage that plays in real time is the native HDV footage that I captured using Final Cut in the first place. As soon as After Effects touches it, no matter what the export settings, no dice.
Any thoughts?
Gino
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Did you leave the frame size / pixel aspect ratio alone or did you raster it out to full frame size.
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Hey Walter,
Thanks for answering so quickly.
Basically, after some testing, here’s where I am:
If I drag a clip that I rendered out of AE into Final Cut, it asks me if I want to match the sequence to the clip’s settings. If I say “yes” it gives the illusion that no transcoding needs to be done, which isn’t really the case, but there’s no option to transcode anything (no red, no orange, no nothing).
If I drag the clip into the timeline, and decline the option to match the setting, I get an orange bar, which I choose to render out and then it plays just like it should.
To your question (I hope), I resize the comp in AE to 1920 x 1080 and lock it down to 16:9, which is the correct setting to get the proper playback in FC…Framesize and everything else is the same, 29.97, lossless compression out of AE…
My understanding is that Final Cut could handle this type of drag and drop, but unless I’m missing something, it’s kind of like it was pre-Final Cut 6.
Any thoughts?
Gino
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As well, Walter, once I’ve mixed formats on the same timeline, it seems that’s where the trouble starts. I dropped an animation codec file into the timeline and was prompted to transcode, which I did and it plays fine. The I dropped an HDV codec file into the same timeline, was NOT prompted to do anything (Final Cut makes it look like it’s going to handle it natively) and the second clip (the one I wasn’t asked to transcode) is a jerky, skippy, stoppy mess.
Thoughts?
Gino
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