[Joel Musch]

thanks. it worked perfectly. I appreciate the help.

[Joel Musch]

Thank you Chris and Dave! Priceless info. I’ll get to work.

[Joel Musch]

Thanks Chris.

Got it. 24P = bad.

My only set back with that is, the clips I’m animating are exported out of FCP in a long sequence. Not individual. Should I do a reverse telecine in FCP?

As far as keeping my footage looking the best: My process so far is exporting the clips from FCP as is. Separating fields in AE(lower first), animating in 29.97, then exporting from AE at 29.97 and adding the lower field in the render queue. Is that dumb? Do I need to watch some tutorials, or does it sound like I’m on the right track?

[Joel Musch]

Sorry, I didnt mean “export” I meant render… I only ever use the Render queue.

I am using Keylight for my keys, and the problem I am having is with the terrible blocky edges. I didnt know if it had to do with my compression, interlacing, pixel aspect ratio, or something else that I am totally unaware of.

I recently de-interlaced, and saw a bit of a difference on my keys. They smoothed out a bit.

[Joel Musch]

Should I use DVNTSC when exporting from AE still then? Or photo-jpeg? Wouldnt I lose my interlacing if I did a photo-jpeg?

[Joel Musch]

Thanks. By Reference movie. That is going to revolutionize my life Im sure of it.

[Joel Musch]

Wow, K. Ill definitely try photo-jpeg. Im assuming it de-interlaces, which might be a problem.

If I want to separate the fields, is the best way to do that in FCP or AE (interpret footage/ main/ separate fields)?

After I’ve separated the fields to animate the frames, do I need to re-interlace before rendering? Or am I forever stuck with progressive frames?

Also, Ive tried current settings in FCP before and always thought it lost a bit of quality. Am I crazy?

I will remember to select render with fields in my render queue though, THANKS!