[Camareo Waller]

Thanks for all of the detailed replies!

Upon more research (and reading tons of reviews), I think I have my choices narrowed down to two lenses:

*Tamron 17mm-50mm f/2.8 lens
*Tamron 28mm-75mm f/2.8 lens

I have read great reviews on both and seen beautiful video for both. Plus the wide aperture is a bonus for low-light shooting, etc.

However, would one consider the 17mm-50mm redundant, since I already have the 18-55 kit lens? Or could it be considered a sufficient upgrade/replacement?

Regarding the Tamron 28-75, although it’s not as wide angled as I would like, but it would give me additional zoom capabilities.

Thoughts???

[Camareo Waller]

So I tried something different. I Imported my FCP video into Premiere Pro CS3 and exported it from Premiere as a quicktime video. The quality of the image was preserved in that it’s identical to my FCP video. I took the Premiere video and then placed that into After Effects CS3.

The video image has been preserved a bit better, BUT my video now has something of a vectorized look to it. It looks like this in the AE timeline as well as when I export it to video. I used the Photo-JPEG codec when exporting from Premiere to AE and from AE to my desktop.

Any help?

[Camareo Waller]

Yes, I shot in Standard Definition DV.

Could you or anyone list some good codecs that comes with FCP and AE to use, or ones I can download?

Also, it may be a slightly dumb question, but how would I go about exporting by reference from FCP?

For the final product, I was just planning on having it as a self contained video file so I can keep it in my external hd for archival purposes, as well as to burn it on dvd’s.