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Quicktime 7 and the PC
Hey everyone…
I’m editing using Apple Final Cut Pro on a G5, but animating and compositing using a PC with After Effects, and I’ve just upgraded to Quicktime 7 Pro for windows xp so that I can make the DV .mov files that FCP needs right on my PC (avoiding additional rendering is always good…I’m sure all you FCP users know what I mean). Anyway, if I export a .mov animation on my PC everything is great, but when I export the DV .mov file on my PC, it changes the colors and makes the whole video darker. This happens both directly out of After Effects, and even if I take the clean animation .mov staright into QuickTime and export it to DV from there. I tried doing both on a Mac G5 with After Effects and both the animation and DV formats looked exactly the same and perfect – the way they should be!
Has anyone had this problem and/or found a way to fix it? Or even have any idea why it’s happening in the first place? I would understand if the compression to DV was causing changes in the video, but then that should happen both on my PC and on the Mac…
Thanks once again for all the help.
Ben
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2 Replies
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Don’t fool with compressed formats…. save everything as Animation codec or none codec…otherwise you are going to recompress stuff multiple times…
Sure the editor may have to rerender your stuff…but in the end it will look much better..
(M)ichael
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I agree. I guess my question really is whether or not there’s a difference between the Mac’s version of QT7 and the PC’s, because the Mac’s DV conversion looks just as good as with the animation codec (for DV NTSC editing purposes anyway), but the PC’s looks horrible. are they using different methods?
Thanks again…
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