Chris Poisson
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You have to export using QuickTime Conversion, unless you set you sequence to Animation+. Either way will give you a transparent background.
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Barbara,
There are a TON of posts here on this, but in a nutshell, HDV is an MPEG2 GOP format whereas ProRes is an I-frame, full raster codec which holds up very well to color correction and effects. HDV is a fine acquisition format but the worst for editing, it has to be conformed because editing changes the GOP structure, so at the very least you should change your compressor in your HDV sequences to ProRes and render. But I capture all my HDV footage to ProRes, here’s my tutorial on how to do it. Yes, it takes a lot more drive space, but much less than uncompressed and drives are so cheap so who cares?
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/poisson_chris/hdv-prores.php
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I trust the clip info in the Browser far more than QT info. It can be unreliable.
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Barbara,
Go into your sequence settings and change the compressor to ProRes, then re-render the timeline and export. By far the best solution in your situation. Next time though, better to capture you HDV footage as ProRes from the start.
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Photo Jpeg is the preferred format for most stock footage and is by far better than DV.
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I have a DVX100 and I totally agree with Dave, 30 p looks great and is so much easier in your workflow.
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Pedro,
Well, I like Fotomagico for this as well, but the Noise Industries plug is nice too. But, no one here told you about optimizing your stills for this kind of thing. 300×300 images are going to blur or pixelate at a broadcast size. You may need to upscale them with PhotoZoom Pro, which does a great job. As a rule, photos for animating in FCP should be twice your frame size at 72 dpi. FCP chokes on hi rez files.
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Que?
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I use the same NASA image in After Effects but go it one more, there are cloud images on NASA which I put over the earth and use displacement maps to make them move organically, independent of the Earth rotation. Looks amazing. Subtle, but very nice IMO.
https://www.revostock.com/Stock-Video-Footage/10368/Earth-Moon-1.htm
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Do the latter, much better workflow.
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