[Ryan Roddick]

Thanks a lot for your help Tom on this matter. I am rendering the effect in AE as DV. Plus it is also happening with Live type. If you are importing graphics from sources such as after effects or live type. should the set up always be DV NTSC? are there any other preferences that you could think off that would improve the quality. Also when I output it to idvd, I output it as a quicktime movie. It seems all the graphics made outside FCE aren’t as clear. If I’m making animations at DV-NTSC 720×480 with an aspect ratio of 3:2 what should my setup be in FCE?

thank you

[Ryan Roddick]

No I’m not looking at this on an external monitor, but I exported a piece of the sequence (thinking that it was just the computer) to my desktop as a quiktime reference and then made a quick dvd of it. When I loaded the DVD back onto the computer, the animation was still distorted. The codec is set to animation. The DV setting is on
DV NTSC 720×480 which is what the setting is in Final Cut express.

[Ryan Roddick]

Yes it was 3:2, I’ve rendered the animation in AE a few different ways like changing the composition settings to square pixels, and making the composition 720×540. I’ve also tried to render the animation out as an animated gif. But in Final Cut Express it still looks the same once it hits the timeline. It’s almost like the resolution is at half. Similar to AE when you turn the resolution down. I know everything is saved at it’s best resolution, and when I open up the animation as a quicktime movie on my desktop it looks beautiful, and when I import it into FCE it looks great in the viewer window, but when I lay it down on the timeline the image isn’t of it’s highest quality. I’m running out of ideas, I’m hoping someone out there can say something that I haven’t tried already.

Thank you for any help you may have.

[Ryan Roddick]

I’ve rendered the animation out in several way in aftereffects. the aspect ratio of my FCE project say NTSC-CCIR 601, it’s at a size of 720×480. the ways I’ve rendered it in aftereffects is by setting the composition size to 720×480 with an aspect ratio of 3:2, then I tried switching it to square pixels at the same rate, then at 720×540. I’ve rendered it as an animated gif, I’ve had it render upper and lower fields at a time…and it still loofs fuzzy when I get it into FCE. It looks great in the viewer, it’s when it’s on the canvas it gets fuzzy. I did notice that the % size in the middle top of the canvas window is set for size of window which is 75%. But in the viewer it’s 76%. I don’t know if this makes a difference but it won’t let me change it by one anyway. Please help.

Thanks