[Avital Pelakh]

I would imagine that the only way to keep the resolution would be to blow up the DV footage and change your sequence settings to the full resolution.

Even if that one clip is in full resolution, once you export it with the sequence settings it’s going to compress it to DV settings anyway.

[Avital Pelakh]

Alright, now I have a new problem. My animation has a chroma key filter on it in FCP to make it seem like my guy is walking through a bunch of different real world scenes.

I exported the video using compressor with the Apple ProRes 422 (HQ) setting. Now my aliasing is gone, but my chroma key filter isn’t working in the final output (so i see my animation with green behind it, but no backgrounds). This is not the case when I look at the preview window in compressor.

any ideas?

[Avital Pelakh]

Thanks, I changed the settings to Apple Pro Res 422 with square pixels and it seems to be much better, although I had to resize most of the clips on the timeline.

I appreciate the help!

[Avital Pelakh]

Thank you for responding.

The animation is just a guy walking. I created the pieces in Illustrator and used the puppet tool in AE. I exported it using the animation compressor with an NTSC pixel aspect ratio.

when i play the clip from the finder, there is no aliasing. but as soon as i drop it into my FCP timeline, the aliasing looks really bad.

my FCP sequence settings are as such:

Frame Size: 720×480 NTSC DV (3:2)
Pixel Aspect Ratio: NTSC – CCIR 601/DV (720×480) Anamorphic
Field Dominance: Lower (even)
Compressor DV/DVCPRO – NTSC

Thanks again for responding, I hope I’ve provided more useful information here