Out of AE into FCP

[Danielle Reubenstein]

I’m looking at it on a computer monitor, but I’m looking at it in QT after being exported out of FCP. Does that answer the question?

[Danielle Reubenstein]

Indeed cumbersome. I just started at a new office so they’re moving all my equipmeent in still. I’ll be getting a video monitor shortly.

So you’re saying that it’s the interlacing that is the issue. Would exporting the video out of aE uncompressed help at all?

I guess I’m asking, what’s the best quality I can output my AE file as? If that’s too complicated a question that’s ok.

Thanks for your help Dave

[Stephen Davidson]

Whenever I need to output to a FCP system, I have always outputed to QuickTime, animation codec, at 720 x 486 (.9 pixel aspect) Best Quality, but I don’t use fields, as I produce animation. I have never had a problem with this. With uncompressed, I have had a problem, but it involves bringing footage from FCP into AE and back out again. The color levels shift. By having FCP use the animation codec to output and using the animation codec to output from AE, all color levels are maintained.

Best Regards,
Stephen P. Davidson
http://www.3danimationmagic.com

[Danielle Reubenstein]

Thanks to everyone! I’m actually just doing pure graphic animation with no footage 24p or otherwise 🙂 I do appreciate the sermon though, cause you never know when that will be useful.

Thanks again for the help,

[Bill Kelly]

Try rendering it out to whatever codec you’re using in your FCP timeline rather than using the animation codec. Once you bring a file rendered out in the animation codec into FCP and render it into your timeline, the video is being transformed to that codec anyway and FCP is playing the render file in your timeline, not the original file with the animation codec.

If you want to render out a copy of the file in animation codec from AE to have for your archives you could do that as well.