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Which compressor between AE and FCP
I’m doing a project that’s an After Effects (6.5) animation and I’m editing it in Final Cut Pro. What I’m doing for now is exporting a Quick Time using the H.264 compressor from After Effects, then importing it into FCP (which I think is set on the DV/DVCPRO NTSC compressor) and rendering it. It looks okay, but it’s pretty “pixelly” and I know there is probably a better compressor to choose, that if I set both programs on it, there won’t be as much image quality lost.
Does anyone know which compressor is best for this? -
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I would recommend exporting out of AE with a DV/DVCPRO compressor (codec). That way it will be native in FCP and there won’t be a need to re-render once the clip is placed in the timeline.
Animation codec works well if you need an alpha channel for transparency or if space isn’t critical, (larger file size OK) I use 8-bit uncompressed with good results. -
If your end goal is a DV/NTSC sequence in FCP then render DV/NTSC in After Effects. Rendering in AE then FCP again will only re-compress your movie. H264 is an end-user codec that should really only be used for final display. It does not edit well in FCP and does not re-compress well.
If your not limited to DV/NTSC then try and stay ProRes the whole way. I’ve also had a lot of success with the Photo JPEG codec.
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