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Yet another emergency… huuulllppp?
Hi again,
Okay, my back is really up against the wall on this project. I am way, way, way in over my head.
I am creating “3d” animations in After effects, then importing the rendered movies into Final Cut Pro for SD DV/NTSC compositing and editing.
When I get the AE animation clips into FCP, there are times when I need to “zoom” in on an animation element. Of course, this means that I go above 100% in the Size setting in FCP and the animation gets blurry.
Can you point me toward some workflow hints and tips regarding getting the best way to create versatile graphics in AE and be able to display them crisply once edited in FCP?
I imagine that if I simply create comps in AE that are 1440 x 960 (using DV/NTSC Pixel aspect ratio), I will have clean graphics that I can downsize to 720 x 480, but I also have a lot of room to zoom in while editing in FCP.
Your thoughts?
ThanksTalkingbox Digital Media Group, Inc.
http://www.talkingboxdmg.com
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[mabou2] “Can you point me toward some workflow hints and tips regarding getting the best way to create versatile graphics in AE and be able to display them crisply once edited in FCP?”
Creating your AE animations at a higher rez and importing them into FCP might indeed help, but I feel compelled to let you know that FCP is not intended to be used to judge quality of footage. It’s desktop previews are notoriously fuzzy and all around bad looking, you really need to have an external monitor to preview your work on to have any idea how your finished footage will look.
Darby Edelen
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Left Coast Digital
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Any reason you aren’t just doing the zooms IN After Effects instead of within your editing app? Rendering them 1440×960 would work, but it would slow down your workflow, double disc space requirements etc. Seems like a lot of extra headache that could be avoided.
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Heya BW,
I am having to build the animations (more than 100 of em, roughly 5 to 30 seconds long each) as separate items that will need to be timed to the on-camera spokesperson in FCP.
When editing the narrative (spokesperson) in FCP, we will be piecing together multiple wide, med, and close up video takes. I need the background to appear as wide shots, medium shots, and close-ups…. but I am not sure where when I am creating these animations..
I want the flexibility of being able to zoom in on the animation, not have to go back to the AE, tweak a timing for a second, then wait for three hours to render, every time I feel a creative need to make a small change to the narrative.
Talkingbox Digital Media Group, Inc.
http://www.talkingboxdmg.com
(203) 327-6617 -
Don’t know if you’re still checking this thread (it’s a little old now) but I see your problem. Your solution is certainly one way to do it.
In my experience, however, things like this are usually a planning consideration. Either planning the shots in advance so that you know what is needed, or waiting for the edit to be done before focusing on graphics. This way, you can import a low-res version of the cut into AE and time your animations to it. This will save you the back and forth you mentioned, but will also trim a LOT of time off of your workflow, save storage space etc.
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