Steve Roberts
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Excellent.
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I agree. Get the timing down in the editing app, nail down all cuts. Then add the graphics by exporting the relevant section (if necessary) from FCP with current settings (no change). Do your magic in AE, then render to the codec of the FCP sequence, otherwise FCP will have to render in the sequence … the exception being if you have to use alpha channel, to render to the Animation codec with AE.
Now … if you’re editing in FCP with a codec such as HDV or MPEG-2 (an interframe-compressed codec) you must convert it to a proper intraframe-compressed codec (P-JPEG, PNG, Animation, 8-bit 422, ProRes) before importing into AE. Then you should render to the same proper intraframe codec, and use something like Quicktime to convert that movie to the HDV/MPEG-2 codec if you want.
I hope that makes sense …
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Not bad etiquette. It’s quite all right.
… depending on the video, of course. 🙂
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Yes.
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Yes. You should not use DV square pixel when going back to Premiere or any other video editing app, in general.
Just use one of the presets Dave mentioned.
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“Thank you DVXuser community”?
Busted for a cross-post! Bad internet etiquette to cross-post!
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Yes. Import the video clip and drag it onto the New Composition button at the bottom of the Project window. The comp will be right.
The movie that you render will look right on TVs and DVDs but too wide when viewed on a computer. If you want the final product to be viewed on a computer (internet, flash, quicktime, etc.), you need to re-render the final movie to one of those 4:3 square pixel sizes such as 640×480, 320×240, whatever.
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The final deliverable is the thing you deliver to the client at the end of the job. It would be described as a DVD or a quicktime movie for laptop playback, for example.
The projector is secondary. What is primary is the playback device for the movie: hard drive or DVD player?
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Hm. Usually AE indicates an estimated file size when rendering. Oh, well.
I recommend you hit the Vegas forum. I’m out of ideas, sorry.
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Have you checked your hard drive properties to see if you’re running out of disk space?
When rendering, what does AE say is the expected final file size?
Are you using the FAT file system on your hard drive, which doesn’t allow files bigger than 2 GB?
Can you get an external hard drive and format it to NTFS so you can make a file bigger than 2 GB?