Importing/Exporting Final Cut to After Effects CS3
by Jon Rokka
on
Sep 12, 2007 at 5:06:00 pm
Hi
Im new here but I have a problem which is causing me hours of grief.
I am currently working on a project which involves exporting both still images and video from Final Cut and then working on them in After effects CS3 and then sending them back into Final Cut for the finished film. Sounds simple enough.
My 2 issues are:
1. when I export files as a quicktime movie with no compression from final cut and then import them to After effects cs3 as footage, then work on the footage.
When I re-export as best quality QT fro AE I lose quality of footage???
The new effected video is lower quality than the original footage I export from FCP!
I have tried changing settings galor but to no avail!
2. When I export still images from FCP to after effects I am exporting JPEG at highest quality and I am still losing quality when I re-export them from AE CS3
If anyone can provide a surefire way of maintaning quality throughout this process I will be a ridiculously happy man.
Re: Importing/Exporting Final Cut to After Effects CS3 by Dan O'Brien on Sep 13, 2007 at 12:17:14 am
With your video, try exporting using a quicktime reference (uncheck the "make movie self-contained" boxin the export quicktime movie dialog). This will export a reference quicktime that uses your original finalcut footage. Also, what's your fcp video (dv, 10-bit, 8-bit?) make sure you're rendering out of AE with the correct settings. Is your final cut footage lowerfield? Then render out of AE with lower field (not single field).
This is not an unusual workflow, so you should have no problems. Just make sure your render settings in AE match your original footage from FCP.
Re: Importing/Exporting Final Cut to After Effects CS3 by Todd Kopriva on Sep 13, 2007 at 6:56:14 am
You say that you're exporting with Best Quality settings, but you don't say what codec you're using. Be sure that you're using a lossless codec for compression for both output from FCP and After Effects. Exporting a Quicktime movie from After Effects using the Animation codec is a very common way of maintaining quality in this workflow.
