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resolution issue
I’m working in DV. I capture using FCP. When I import to AE my clips look low res. Pixelated. Ugly. The files I capture in FCP look great in FCP but the same ones look terrible in AE (this is true whether I import a self-contained QT exported from FCP, a reference movie out of FCP, or even the actual captured QT movie itself imported directly into AE).
My settings in AE is the preset, DV 720 x 480. The layer quality is set to “best” and the resolution is set at “full” in the composition settings. What am I missing? This is driving me crazy. Can someone please help?
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Open the movie in the QTPro player. It must be the “Pro enabled” quicktime. If I remember correctly you “Get movie Properties” for the video track and then set “Quality” to high. Save and re-import.
This might do the trick. This does’t happen with .mov’s from an Avid however. I feel is a little bit of a dirty trick for Apple to require you to repurchase Quicktime to enable you to have to resave all the exported QTs you may deal with.
If I’m wrong on this, I apologize, Apple!
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First of all thanks for your tip.
I have QT Pro. I opened my clip in QT player and clicked “high quality” in the settings and the image unmistakably became sharper. I re-saved, giving my clip a different name, saving it as a self-contained movie. I couldn’t wait to import into AE and when I did, crap! It looks exactly like it did before–soft, aliased edges–terrible!
Again, the layer quality is set to “best” and the composition’s resolution is set to “Full”.
Here’s the real kicker. When I double-click on the imported clip in the project bin, the clip opens up in a footage window and it looks beautiful, crisp and clean, like it’s supposed to. But as soon as I drag it to the composition–aaaahhh. Ugly.
Anyone? Help, please!
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I have some advice…. use DV AVI!!!!! Actually, I’m not sure… does FCP support DV AVI? I don’t understand why you are using a extremely lossy codec… or are you using MJPEG compression at quality 100% or something like that? Someone please inform me!
-Greg
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I have some advice…. use DV AVI!!!!! Actually, I’m not sure… does FCP support DV AVI? I don’t understand why you are using a extremely lossy codec… or are you using MJPEG compression at quality 100% or something like that? Someone please inform me!
-Greg
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Did you switch off Pixel Aspect Ratio Correction in the comp window? It makes videos look a little rougher, so it should be switched off before rendering for best quality.
Steve
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I’m using FCP’s built-in codec for DV. It doesn’t offer any choices for codecs. Besides, that doesn’t explain why my clip looks good in FCP and poor in AE.
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Yes, pixel aspect ration is off. Turning it on or off seems to have no effect on the image. I was hoping it was something simple like that but AE doesn’t really offer much in terms of settings for quality/resolution.
If anyone is willing, I’d love to send a small clip and see if you have the same resolution issue in AE that I’m experiencing.
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Did you sort this yet:
have you tried dragging the footage onto the “create new comp” icon in project window?
How did the render turn out even with duff previews ? -
No I have not figured it out yet. I check my mail every day to see if I have anything from Creative Cow. This is killing me.
I tried your suggestion, dragging the footage to the “create new comp” icon. This made no difference. The preview is poor as well as the render.
I’m going to start a new thread with a screencap to see if someone can pinpoint my problem. Thank you for your input though. Here’s the screen cap, 100% to scale. The second window showing the clean image is simply the footage window inside AE.
https://www.9mmmedia.com/galant_screencap.jpg
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Try turning field separation off on interpretation. It tends to mess up static clips.
Steve
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