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Steven H. Denn · October 31st, 2004, 12:54 PM

Is there a compression setting in After Effects, that will allow you to play back that Quicktime movie in FCP 4.5 with out it being rendered in FCP 4.5?
Our Art Department uses AE to make all our Quicktime opens, closes & keyable graphics with the Photo JPEG compression setting. When I burn them to dvd & take them home to import them into my FCP 4.5,
it doesn't matter what the project setting or sequence settings are, they need to be rendered. Is it my settings? AE settings? or that's just FCP 4.5 & render them.

(These same graphics with alpha's play back fine in Motion.)

Rob Lohman · October 31st, 2004, 01:38 PM

(I am a PC user, but the theory should be the same for both PC
and Mac [or any system for that matter])

I think you are approaching this from the wrong direction. A system
will ALWAYS need to process/render your footage if you go from
one format/compression to another.

So the real question is what is your output? MPEG2/DVD is NOT
the same as MJPEG (what you call photo jpeg) and will need
rendering. This should ONLY happen when outputting to a format,
not when playing in FCP. There really is no way around this,
unless you can match the source and output formats/codecs.

Shane Ross · November 1st, 2004, 01:18 PM

If you are editing in DV, export from AE DV/NTSC at 29.97 fps.

If you export the composition in the same format that you are rendering, then you won't need to re-render in FCP.

Joshua Starnes · November 1st, 2004, 03:33 PM

There's nothing inside After Effects that will do what you want, or inside FCP for that matter.

However, there are good programs, like Automatic Duck, that will allow you to move your timeline from AE to FCP without having to render at all, keeping your work more or less intact so that you only have to render it down once.

October 31st, 2004, 12:54 PM	#1
Steven H. Denn New Boot Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Livonia, Michigan Posts: 17	Quicktime Movies Is there a compression setting in After Effects, that will allow you to play back that Quicktime movie in FCP 4.5 with out it being rendered in FCP 4.5? Our Art Department uses AE to make all our Quicktime opens, closes & keyable graphics with the Photo JPEG compression setting. When I burn them to dvd & take them home to import them into my FCP 4.5, it doesn't matter what the project setting or sequence settings are, they need to be rendered. Is it my settings? AE settings? or that's just FCP 4.5 & render them. (These same graphics with alpha's play back fine in Motion.)

October 31st, 2004, 01:38 PM	#2
Rob Lohman RED Code Chef Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Holland Posts: 12,514	(I am a PC user, but the theory should be the same for both PC and Mac [or any system for that matter]) I think you are approaching this from the wrong direction. A system will ALWAYS need to process/render your footage if you go from one format/compression to another. So the real question is what is your output? MPEG2/DVD is NOT the same as MJPEG (what you call photo jpeg) and will need rendering. This should ONLY happen when outputting to a format, not when playing in FCP. There really is no way around this, unless you can match the source and output formats/codecs. __________________ Rob Lohman, visuar@iname.com DV Info Wrangler & RED Code Chef Join the DV Challenge \| Lady X Search DVinfo.net for quick answers \| Buy from the best: DVinfo.net sponsors

November 1st, 2004, 01:18 PM	#3
Shane Ross Major Player Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Los Angeles, USA Posts: 539	If you are editing in DV, export from AE DV/NTSC at 29.97 fps. If you export the composition in the same format that you are rendering, then you won't need to re-render in FCP.

November 1st, 2004, 03:33 PM	#4
Joshua Starnes Major Player Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 356	There's nothing inside After Effects that will do what you want, or inside FCP for that matter. However, there are good programs, like Automatic Duck, that will allow you to move your timeline from AE to FCP without having to render at all, keeping your work more or less intact so that you only have to render it down once.