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Square Pixel projects for web use, best workflow??
Hi,
i am regularly doing clips lately that just get used for the web. Source Material is mostly DV, so up to now I used to work in a DV-PAL Sequence Setting and then compressed my finished Clip using compressor, Streamclip etc. to get into the final square pixel setting without fields for web delivery.
Since I was pretty disappointed of the results regarding the de-interlaced final clips (especially on titles and graphics with jagged edges from the de-interlacing) I wondered which workflow delivers best quality here?
If I mix DV-Material and After Effects Titles and Animations and know I will deliver in 640×360 pixels, is it more effective to work in a 640×360 squarepixel sequence in Final Cut and Deinterlace the Video and render animations in progressive square pixels??
Which Codec is then best to use? I went nuts about the render times that haunted me in this workflow.
I basically threw my DV material into a 640×360 sequence with square pixels, de-interlaced it and exported it to a Quicktime with DV Compression. That already took some time, now on importing and placing the rendered clip back in the sequence settings I exported it from I got a red bar and had to render it again in FCP to get playback…
Which Codec would you use when setting up a sequence with the settings above and is the DV-Codec the problem with progressive square pixels or why can’t FCP playback a rendered, exported and re-imported clip in real time with matching sequence settings??Which workflow would you use to avoid jaggy edges in titles and graphics from the De-Interlacing of DV encoded material??
Karim
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Hi Karim,
Your workflow is OK.
Just few little things:
– You need to set your 640×360 sequence with field dominance: NONE.
– Export your AE graphics as Progressive. No point to make them interlaced if they have to be de-interlaced.
Edit in the codec you want but before rendering:
– Set your sequence to ProRess.
– Set “Render all YUV in High Precision”.
– Set “Render Motion Effects: Best”.
Export your ProRess 640×360-Progressive-Square pixels QT movie. If you are happy with it you only need to compress it for the web.
BTW, use a good de-interlacer. Nattress is the only one that works in 10b in FC.
rafael(and here some clips for the friends: https://www.vimeo.com/2694745 )
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