• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Question about Sequence Codecs..

  Posted by Zeke Meginsky on July 19, 2011 at 3:51 pm

  I feel like I’m forever asking this question, and don’t fully have the understanding, so I apologize in advance.

  If my sequence is a DV Sequence, and I rendered a high quality animation in another program, is the FCP DV sequence going to downgrade it in any way? I know that “rendering” in DV is not the best for motion graphics, I get that, but does that only apply to if you’re actually creating the animation in FCP? I mean, Final Cut didn’t creat it, it’s just importing an animation, it was rendered by After Effects. Does Final Cut still downgrade it?

  I keep reading that I should maybe upgrade the sequence to ProRes HQ, but I have a few reservations about that. I dont want to do it if it’s not going to affect the animations at all, or is going to have a negative affect on the colors (with animations coming in under the Animations codec), or if it’s going to have a negative effect on the DV video that’s in the project. It’s a long render if I decide to do it so I’d want to be sure.

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