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Stuttering After Effects clip in Final Cut Pro timeline
I have a rendered After Effects quicktime of a graphic intro that I need to playback in a Final Cut Pro Sequence but it stutters and chokes on it.
The AE Clips plays Okay in Quicktime. It also plays back fine if you export the Final Cut sequence as a quicktime.
But in the sequence itself it stutters and chokes on playback and when scrubbing through it. This makes it difficult to edit.
It was rendered in AE as a an Animation Codec at 1920 x 1080, square pixels
My Sequence settings are the same as my footage- XDCAM HD 1080p30 35mb/s 1440×1080 pixel aspect ratio: HD 1440×1080
Anybody know what it is I have to do to fix it?
What if I put it in a sequence that fits its settings and nest that sequence in my timeline? Any thoughts would help!
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You can render out the animation to make your sequence settings or you can render the animation in the FCP timeline. This will be you the smoothest playback.
But check you RT settings, set it to Unlimited and then Video Quality and Frame Rate to Dynamic. This will help with unrendered material.
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Don’t do the nest. It will behave exactly as if it were the animation codec clip in the timeline and need rendering. It will just be an extra annoyance as a nest.
You might have better playback performance if you were able to make the file as ProRes in AE but you may not have that codec if AE is on a non FCP computer.
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re:render out the animation to make your sequence settings
Do you mean I should Render out my Animation in After Effects at the XDCAM codec that my Final Cut Pro Sequence is using? Can you please clarify. How do I “render to MAKE your Sequence Settings?”
re:This will help with unrendered material.
Also to be clear-Final Cut Doesn’t seem to need to render the the After Effects clips to play it but it seems to have trouble playing it back.
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Sorry,
Do you mean I should Render out my Animation in After Effects at the XDCAM codec
yes that is what I meant. i probably should have said, export your AE project to the codec used in the FCP project.While FCP can “handle” multiple codec, frame rates as per its marketing, the success of the actual doing it often leaves something to be desired. If there is an orange line above the timeline markers where the AE clips are that means that it may play them but probably not well enough to be useful. By rendering them you are converting it to the sequence settings so it will play back perfectly.
Gissing recommendation stands as FCP can playback ProRes better than animation but not as well as if you match your sequence settings. But with ProRes there is less of a compression hit to the files.
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I have the same issues with apple pre res QTs created in AE. Can anyone shed more light?
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