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XDCAM HD and AE Rendering
Anybody using XDCAM HD files, 35mbs 30p, and using AE 7 to render. I have NOT had any success in rendering in the XDCAM codec @ 35mbs 30p and then bringing it back into FCP. Plays back choppy. It also looks to have the wrong gamma, it is much darker. I also seem to notice some degragation in the picture quality. I have NO problem within FCP editing and rendering, everything looks great. Any help would be appreciated, I’m working on a deadline on a project and I really need to use AE… Thanks in advance
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There is a simple answer to this….
NO, you cannot render from AE to XDCAM HD, nor, can you capture any other type of footage to XDCAM HD inside of FCP.
I’m sure that this is a Quicktime issue that hasn’t been answered yet. You can render to HDV but not to XDCAM HD. Funny, since XDCAM HD is a flavor of HDV. XDCAM HD 25 mb/s is really an HDV signal written to disk. The other transfer rates are varible bit rate material and that is the reason Quicktime hs such a difficult time with rendering to it. Keep in mind, that when you render in AE, you are essentially rendering in Quicktime as a Quicktime file.
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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions
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Yeah, I figured out the hard way that it doesn’t work. Basically, I’m using the XDCAM files as off-line, and now I’m re-capturing the footage on the timeline with the DVCPRO HD 1080 codec which seems to be working smoothly so far. Hopefully Apple and Sony will solve the problem soon because it’s a pretty good workflow except that it doesn’t work with AE.
But, I do have another problem…After I render in AE with the DVCPRO HD codec, the black levels, or gamma, jump up about 7.5 ire or so… Anybody having this problem?
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I’m comparing the rendered footage on the same FCP timeline. By comparing the video tracks by turning them on and off, the scopes on FCP show the jump in the black level or gamma
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