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video quality
I have a Sony VX2100 and I am editing most of a short film together in Premiere, but my problem is that I have some compositing that I am doing in After FX and every time I export the video and import it back into Premiere, the quality is drastically different from the original…I even notice this difference when I orginally import to After FX…is there a setting I am missing or what? Any help?!?!?
Brant Wells -
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How? Brightness changes, compression?
First of all, don’t send it over to AE as a DV file, it will only degrade the image for no reason. Convert it over to Quicktime Animation. Then export it lossless on the way back. Premiere will render it back to YUV.
Chris Smith
https://www.sugarfilmproduction.com -
An alternative approach to Chris’s export via quicktime might be to select and copy the clips you want to work with on your PPro timeline, and then just paste them into an After Effects composition. The clips will open in AE in their original quality, which may produce a good enough result for your purposes. When you render out your AE composition, choose whatever codec the rest of your footage is in – probably DV.
There is a quality gain in using uncompressed footage rather than DV, and it’s particulayly likely to be apparent in colour correction, keying, and in graphics with sharp colour edges or large areas of near-flat tone … but for much work with a DVD or VHS output, the differences can be small. Given that yours is a domestic camcorder, it’s probably not an issue for you; if it is, just be aware that long clips in uncompressed video can eat disc space (around 90 Gigabytes per hour for standard definition, varying a little with 8 bit / 10 bit uncompressed, PAL or NTSC, compared to maybe 15 Gigabytes per hour for DV – again, this may vary a little between PAL and NTSC)
Hope it works out.
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I am having poor video resolution also, I believe after rendering it uncompressed for Final Cut. This is very upsetting, am I missing something? I have to have this on dv by early next week.
One other thing, Final Cut related. I have switched from Premiere Pro to Final Cut a couple days ago do to my computer crashing. My problem is: At times I want to change the position of a video clip (no motion) on a 2d plane but it becomes blurry, and a bit of resolution is lost. -
Can you provide more detail of the process you are doing to transfer the files.
As far as the FCP repo. This is true and oddly normal for FCP. Try using whole numbers for repo amounts, if nothing else you’ve got to eyeball it. One of the positions will be clear while others will not be.
Chris Smith
https://www.sugarfilmproduction.com -
Thanks for the tip w/ Final Cut, that made a big improvement.
I am still working on my other problem
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