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Working with Final Cut 4.5 HD and After Effects 6.5 PRO, codecs
Hi,
I have been doing some credits on PC using AE6.5PRO, and I’m having problems exporting them to my Final Cut 4.5 HD editing suite. Initially I tried using the AVI uncompressed with alpha setting in AE, but whenever I import the video into Final Cut (project here’s setup for 8 uncompressed), I get ugly banding as though the video only had 65k colors. I’ve fooled arround with different settings in AE, and I still get the same result. I’ve been told that tga’s would be the soulution, but since I’m not doing any network rendering, I’d prefer to work with only one file.
Does anyone have any suggestions on what to go with?Thanks for reading,
Henrik
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8 Replies
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Henrik,
If you are using FCP, I wouldn’t render to anything other than Quicktime.
I have had no issues going from AEPro to FCP using QT files, use no compression (ie Compressor: None), and make sure you get your codec settings (field order etc) right, and that should work.
I have also noticed that for some reason PC created Quicktime Files are fairly big compared to their Mac counterparts.
Hope this helps.
Enzo Tedeschi
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Thanks for the reply!
I’ve tried QT uncompressed (i.e. compression: none), and I still get the same problems. It’s all very confusing…? hmm. -
Try using the “Lossless with Alpha” preset. (Quicktime Animation codec, Millions of Colors+) Works for us at my studio
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Just a thought… how big is the type? Sometimes with small font and rendering with a field the type can get lost. I would try and render out the credits with the animation codec, which is lossless. You could even try rendering the movie out without a field order. The other alternative would be to render to the codec of your capture board. To work in FCP uncompressed you must have some kind of board installed that I bet has it’s own codec to render to.
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Thanks! But, alas, same problem. Perhaps I should try a reinstall on the FCP machine.
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Matthew:
Also tried using the Animation codec, but this still doensn’t work. The final cut machine is hooked up to an AJA IO, anyone know if it using some kind of special codec?Again, thanks to all for reading and replying!
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I’ll take another stab at it!
Yes, if your FCP is hooked up to an IO and he’s using 8 bit, he’s probably using the Aja “8-bit Uncompressed codec”. But even if you don’t render it to that codec, FCP should be able to no problem.
Does the file you render look good on your PC? If not, it’s probably a setting somewhere in AE (probably the render setting or ouptut module). If it looks fine to you, there must be a problem in going from your PC to Mac.
If it is a problem with AE, try using a different preset (like PSD sequence like someone said) and see if that works. You will have to bring that image sequence back into AE and render out as a Quicktime though to work in FCP. If that works though, you’ll be able to trace the problem back and fix it.
If none of this works, write back….I’ve got lots of render time to kill today!
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What does the credits page look like? Is it white text on black or is there some kind of gradient to the background? I have seen subtle gradients band up that way. Not sure why it does that, something to do with the color saturation it seems.
Matt
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