[Jerry Sneede]

Tim,

I’m not seeing the ProRes444 option in my AE. Where can I find this?

[Jerry Sneede]

Tim,

Also, the problem persisted in the quicktime output also. I just don’t know what the difference between the two timelines is. They are the same size (1920×1080), same framerate, same codec.

[Jerry Sneede]

Tim,

Yes, the window size was not an issue. I had both windows at 100%.

[Jerry Sneede]

Ok, this is strange. It seems that sometimes the supers look bad, and sometimes they don’t. I made a new timeline, also ProRes, and copied everything from the original ProRes timeline to it, and the supers from AE were perfectly sharp. Strange.

[Jerry Sneede]

Well, that’s the strange thing – originally, the exported footage looked different on the FCP computer monitor when toggling between the ProRes and Animation codec, but didn’t look different at all on the CRT (or flat screen). Then, when I tried the export through the File menu on AE, the opposite was the case, and the CRT (and flat screen) both showed a big difference, but there was only a very small change on the FCP computer monitor.

[Jerry Sneede]

I did tests with the box checked and unchecked. That had no effect. But, the strange thing is, exporting from the File menu did have an effect, and the crazy thing is, it’s the opposite effect as before. Now, the ProRes looks washed out on the monitors, and the Animation looks darker, there’s a huge difference between the two, but only on the monitors, and very little difference on the viewer in FCP, the opposite from what was happening before. This is very disconcerting.

– J

[Jerry Sneede]

I just rerendered all three test versions from AE, and still the same thing.

– J

[Jerry Sneede]

Let me clarify what I meant in the last message – clicking that button in QT preferences changed what the footage looked like in QT itself, but had no effect in FCP.

– Dave

[Jerry Sneede]

I clicked the enable FCP compatibility button in the QT preferences, and that changed what the ProRes version of the test I made looked like, and made it look more like it did in the FCP viewer. It didn’t effect the Uncompressed or Animation versions. But, it didn’t make any change to what the footage looked like in FCP, or address the issue of things looking different between the versions in the view and not looking different on the monitor.

– Jerry

[Jerry Sneede]

Thanks!