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output looks “soft”
I imported a dv filein AE CS3. The interlacing was bottom field first. I deinterlaced. I added some effects. Everything looked fine. I went to make movie. I set to render bottom field first. I put the rendered output on my edit system timeline,(Pinnacle Liquid Chrome), and the video looks softer than the origional. Any thoughts as to what I may be doing wrong?
Kevin Ryan
Videographer/Editor
The Government Channel
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I always found that when going back to Liquid (Blue). I found, for the cleanest renders, that the way to go is to go to an uncompressed AVI, or QT Animation and then let your Chrome do the re-render upon import. It sucks as it is more time consuming, but I found the results to be better.
Best
Mark
Mark Harvey
Senior Editor
Le Réseau des sports -
No, I believe I chose “off” for fields.
I must admit I am confused about what I should pick.
I thought I should choose off to to de-interlace the
footage before working on it. Am I on the wrong track? Am I correct in assuming that as a matter of practice, its good to de-interlace, add effects, and then pick the origional field order when ready to render?Kevin Ryan
Videographer/Editor
The Government Channel
Charlotte, NC -
When you’re working in AE you almost always want to work deinterlaced. So for you, you should have picked “lower-field first” in the interpretation dialogue.
Grant Swanson
Visual Effects Supervisor
Video Apex – Minneapolis, MN
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For Liquid files (and all video files) you definately want to intepret the fields correctly…DV based footage in NTSC land is lower, so in AE you will need to set to lower field first. When you render, you will also want to render out to lower field first if you are going to TV, or non-interlaced if you are going to a computer screen.
I would still render out to an uncompressed and let Liquid re-render….as mentionned previously I had better results using this method.
Mark
Mark Harvey
Senior Editor
Le Réseau des sports -
Thank you all for the responses. This information
will help a great deal.Kevin Ryan
Videographer/Editor
The Government Channel
Charlotte, NC
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