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setting for PC – AE file for use in Mac – Final Cut
My potential new graphics guy has AE on a PC. I edit final cut pro on a mac.
He does his render thing, all the settings at best, anime at millions+, etc. Looking at the anime in mac quicktime, the picture looks great. But in Final Cut Pro, the anime looks okay untill I render, then it looks like crap -jaggies and low rez.
Is there a setting he’s missing?
Thanks in advance
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3 Replies
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I think it’s more likely that you have a problem at the final cut pro end. What are your sequence settings? If you’re cutting in DV it might just be the DV codec destroying your nice graphics (it really looks like hell with nice sharp graphics). If you have After Effects on the mac you could import his render and then render it out to DV so it doesn’t render in Final Cut, that was you can rule the animator out of the equation and I have always found that after effects does a much better job of transcoding, especially if there is any scaling involved.
There are a couple of tutorials around on optimizing graphics for DV, I can’t find the main one I was thinking of right now but this one addresses the DV problem (https://www.creativecow.net/articles/hodgetts_philip/titles/index.html) , of course if you’re working SD or higher I’m completely off track, let me know.
Glenn Stewart
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Thanks for the text site. Good info.
Weirdly enough, the AE text looks okay, just okay, on NTSC output. Which is weird because the FCP generated text looks really sharp on the computer monitor and the AE import looked horrible. Yet they looked pretty close when output to NTSC. Weird.
Thanks,
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What are your final cut sequence settings though? NTSC will never look as good as the RGB you create in After Effects, Photoshop or even the “YUV” space that final cut supposedly works in (I have my doubts about this, I too have seen “clean” graphics get crunched on render, if the “working” space is truly YUV there should be no perceived loss).
10Bit or 8Bit Standard Definition will look much better than DV, but because of the reduced colour space it can never reproduce RGB graphics with the same sharp edges.
If it’s any consolation there is never any way to see the sharp RGB detail on a TV monitor, and in my experience stuff that looks terrible on the computer monitor can look OK on the TV (Conversely a lot of stuff that looks fine on the computer monitor looks terrible on the TV).
Glenn Stewart
1k Studios
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