[Esky Ching]

ok. thanks. i know how to do all that. just want to save time and be lazy in rush production.

[Esky Ching]

In “Preference” you can set spacial interpolation to “linear”

[Esky Ching]

Your FCP sequence also has to be 60fps in order to play smoothly in your case.

What I will do is to setup the comp as 30fps, render as 60i in stead of 30p, and edit in FCP as 60i sequence.

On computer screen you may not notice the difference as it is progrssive scanning, viewing on TV its ultra smooth because TV does interlace.

[Esky Ching]

In that case, I would recommend you to render the layer with corner pin data out, in stead of precomp it. See if it works.

[Esky Ching]

I did export that part and it was jagged. 😉
Not so sure why…

Anyhow it works now.
🙂

[Esky Ching]

Just to update…
When I drag the AE rendered file to the timeline it shows jagged edge.
When I open the AE rendered file in Viewer, drag it from Viewer to Canvas it does not show jagged edge!!!

I think this is a bug of FCP…

Problem solved. Thanks.

[Esky Ching]

I use FCP 7.0.3, everything is fully rendered.

Re-checking the file exported from After Effects in FCP’s Viewer window, it looks fine!!!

The jagged edge only appears when I put the AE rendered file in FCP sequence.

The video footage below does not show any sign of interlacing, therefore I am pretty sure it does not relate to video monitoring or something.

My sequence setting:

Very interestingly, if I change the Sequence, Settings…, Field Dominance from “None” to “Upper (Odd)”, it shows perfect smoothness.

Strange…

[Esky Ching]

Sorry. Maybe I did not make myself clear.
FCP detects and interprets the footage as progressive, but it renders as upper field first. (i.e. with jagged edge). It should be perfectly smooth for the curve/edge.

Should look like:

FCP gives:

[Esky Ching]

Perfect!
Thanks very much!!!

[Esky Ching]

Wow!
This is the feature I’ve been ignoring.

Thanks very much!!!