After Effects CS3 Renders Play "choppy" in FCP sequences.
by Joe VanDalsem (Joe)
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May 11, 2008 at 8:08:11 pm
Has anybody else noticed that your after effects renders, when dropped onto an FCP sequence and then rendered out look choppy?
It's odd because they play fine in the FCP sequence, but when they're rendered out, they play choppy but the rest of the footage that didn't come from after effects play fine.
I've noticed this ever since FCP Studio 2 came out. do you think it's apple trying to get people to use motion?
The only work around that i've found is to right click (from your project window) on the file and export quicktime>using current settings, and then re-import the render out of FCP and then when it's rendered from a sequence it looks ok, but that's a lot of extra rendering.
Re: After Effects CS3 Renders Play "choppy" in FCP sequences. by Simon Bonner on May 11, 2008 at 10:35:59 pm
Could be an interlacing problem. Select your footage in the project panel, hit cntl+f to open the interpret footage dialogue, then experiment with the separate fields option. Render out a 5 sec clip for each alternative and see if this fixes the issue.
Re: After Effects CS3 Renders Play "choppy" in FCP sequences. by Joey Foreman on May 12, 2008 at 12:44:42 am
Could be a a frame rate issue. I'm not really sure what you mean by "plays choppy." Skips frames? Strobes? Stutters? Regardless it has nothing to do with any compatibility issues. The two play very nicely together, when all of your settings are correct.
Joey Foreman
Editor/Animator
Nowhere Productions, Athens, GA
Re: After Effects CS3 Renders Play "choppy" in FCP sequences. by Joe VanDalsem on Jun 18, 2008 at 12:34:16 am
I've been using AE and FCP for years and i've tried a number of different settings all with the same results. Skipping frames once it's exported from FCP. I've never had this problem before, and in fact, if I do the exact same settings in AE7 vs AECS3, the AE7 render behaves fine upon export from the FCP timeline, while the AECS3 render plays back at what appears to frame double. I am not the only person who's come across this issue, it was a major blunder on a recent project that I'm not at liberty to disclose, but the issue was found on all 8 machines that were creating elements that were later used in FCP.
