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Hi all, i have made a 30 sec intro on adobe after effects and exported it as i quicktime movie file, so i can import to final cut pro... i did this but the graphic intro looks pixelated... i am not sure why this is, i may had got the wrong export setting. I am working on PAL (not NTSC) and stadard setting you find on final cut pro. Does anyone know what setting i should be exporting at? or any advice on this subject would be a lot of help to me Cheers Jonny, UK

jonnyparis,

First of all, always check the final output of your job on a proper monitor, if you are making a video to be shown on a TV, then test it on a TV. It wil appear very different then a computer monitor will show. Often it can look knackered on a computer monitor and perfect on a TV.

Also check thet the Timeline viewer isn't zoomed up, hit 'Shift' + 'z' whilst in the timeline viewer window (AKA - Canvas)

Make a note of he exact settings the sequence in FCP.

Hit 'Apple' + '0' (zero) whilst in the timeline.

If you are working in DV PAL, you may want to use this setting in AE, this will give you a rendered file which will play realtime. The default 'Best Quality' setting in AE is frame rendered too, which you may want to change to Lower first if you are working in DVPAL.


Post back with the exact settings you are using in both Apps, and a better description of pixelated would help. Pixelated to most pro's means the pixels are enlarged, you may in fact mean that the fields are showing incorrectly, which tends to gives horizontal banding in block, and looks strobing on a proper TV monitor.

Duncan

Graphics and text get killed in FCP compared to AE if you are using PAL DV render. If the AE stuff looks all crisp it's probably animation codec or something! so you could change your FCP settings to animation but then you are looking at lots of rendering and big filesize.

But as mentioned check it on a broadcast monitor etc not just a computer monitor,

Jake