[Joseph Hung]

Thanks for the responses!

That is very interesting. I have been using the waveform, vectorscope and the parade scopes through this whole process, and monitored every change. When I dropped the Broadcast filter on it (with RGB Limiter checked on), I saw the change in all three scopes, and everything was legal. Still unsure as to why Compressor or Quicktime Conversion won’t carry over the filter rendered onto an Animation codec quicktime…I mean, I can see what it did to the animation codec in the scopes right there! I also used the 3 way CC, as well as RGB Limiter, it still didn’t affect the final ProRes transcode.
I have been reading that the animation codec is being slowly fazed out by editors, that it’s high quality codec is not that manageable in the face of comparable high quality compressed codecs, such as ProRes 444…

In terms of the workflow, that is duly noted. I was told by the editor that I was delivering to, to output animation from AE and do the transcode to ProRes through FCP/Compressor. Which is what I did, and didn’t work. I guess exporting a ProRes instead of Animation would be easier to work with in FCP.

But doesn’t that mean I am compressing the file in AE, then if I need to color correct again (due to the color space differences) I would be transcoding a compressed file again? Also, would it be better then, to output an Uncompressed 10 bit file from AE, then transcode to ProRes? Just trying to preserve the utmost best quality with less transcode steps…

Your expertise is much appreciated!
Thanks,

Mac 2.66 GHz Quad Intel Xeon
OSX 10.5.8
FCP 6.0.6
AE CS4
Quicktime Pro 7.6.4
4GB RAM
Plenty of storage
Panasonic Lumix GH1, Panasonic HVX200A

[Joseph Hung]

Updated my signature with system specs see below

Mac 2.66 GHz Quad Intel Xeon
OSX 10.5.8
FCP 6.0.6
AE CS4
Quicktime Pro 7.6.4
4GB RAM
Plenty of storage
Panasonic Lumix GH1, Panasonic HVX200A

[Joseph Hung]

Excellent reply, make sure the Canvas is at 100% – good point – very basic yes, but very true!

Yes, I checked that , everything is at 100%, Full, Best, High, etc. etc. Still no improvement. Thanks…

Mac 2.66 GHz Quad Intel Xeon
OSX 10.6 something
FCP 6.0.5
AE 7
Quicktime Pro 7.6
4GB RAM
Plenty of storage
Panasonic AG-DVX100A

[Joseph Hung]

drop your timeline into a ProRes or even an uncompressed sequence.

My sequence is already uncompressed 8 bit. I also tried a ProRes sequence and no improvement. Thanks for your response.

Mac 2.66 GHz Quad Intel Xeon
OSX 10.6 something
FCP 6.0.5
AE 7
Quicktime Pro 7.6
4GB RAM
Plenty of storage
Panasonic AG-DVX100A

[Joseph Hung]

Does anyone know why the text looks WORSE when I render it out? It looks like it usually does with the orange bar, but then I render all and it looks and moves even worse, can’t wrap my brain around that one…

Mac 2.66 GHz Quad Intel Xeon
OSX 10.6 something
FCP 6.0.5
AE 7
Quicktime Pro 7.6
4GB RAM
Plenty of storage
Panasonic AG-DVX100A

[Joseph Hung]

Thanks Stephen…interesting approach, simple and most basic, and will probably work? I’ll try it.

Mac 2.66 GHz Quad Intel Xeon
OSX 10.5.5
FCP 5.1.4
AE 6.5
Quicktime 7.5.5
4GB RAM
Plenty of storage
Panasonic AG-DVX100A

[Joseph Hung]

Thanks Brett. I’ll try that, but I’ve done something similar in Alex4D, where they provide the lines per second speed settings. It still didn’t seem like it improved, but I will try it regardless. Unfortunately, the credit crawl length isn’t a whole even number divisible by 120, so I’ll see where it leaves me.

Mac 2.66 GHz Quad Intel Xeon
OSX 10.5.5
FCP 5.1.4
AE 6.5
Quicktime 7.5.5
4GB RAM
Plenty of storage
Panasonic AG-DVX100A

[Joseph Hung]

thanks Tom, I think you might be right. Actually I updated my specs but it didn’t save apparently. I’m running final cut suite 2 now. But I know AE better than I do Motion…

Mac 2.66 GHz Quad Intel Xeon
OSX 10.5.5
FCP 5.1.4
AE 6.5
Quicktime 7.5.5
4GB RAM
Plenty of storage
Panasonic AG-DVX100A

[Joseph Hung]

Thanks for the response, No I have not tried LiveType and to be honest, I’ve never used it. Not sure if I have the time to fiddle with that one…

Mac 2.66 GHz Quad Intel Xeon
OSX 10.5.5
FCP 5.1.4
AE 6.5
Quicktime 7.5.5
4GB RAM
Plenty of storage
Panasonic AG-DVX100A

[Joseph Hung]

Yeah, I was afraid of that. I kinda figured I would have to just trash that filter and start over with something else anyways, which is unfortunate since I’ve spent so much time already. Oh well, that’s how it goes sometimes, you gotta do it twice…
Thanks for your help!