Hi
Im an animator, animating in various programs and compositing my work in Final Cut Pro. However, when I export my movie file, the first time it is played back in Quicktime, it looks great. When I play it back over and over again, or go through it frame by frame, pixelation starts to occur!!!it plays back absolutely fine in Final Cut!! The other programs im using are Photoshop CS3, After Effects and Motion.
Im using the following settings when exporting:
Compresser:Animation
Size: 768 x 576 Sq Pix DV PAL
Quality: Best
Does anyone know if my settings are wrong, or what else I could be doing wrong?
Thanks!!
Aman Kaur
[QUOTE=Iamthejuggler;2323595]It plays differently in quicktime after the first viewing? That really shouldn’t happen … and the software you used to create it shouldn’t matter at all. Very weird.[/QUOTE]
The software used will actually matter, different programs have different ways of rendering… for example, professional post-production people recommend never compressing from AE (instead, render out uncompressed and use another program to do the compressing).
One thing you could try, Aman, is to bring the rendered clip back into FCP or AE and look at it there, or use a different player such as VLC media player to view your file. Perhaps this is what you mean when you say “it plays fine in Final Cut Pro”?
Quicktime does have it’s own quirks when playing files, like most players do probably. If the problem you are seeing is only occuring in QT then it is a player issue. Not sure what you can DO about that, but at least you will have identified it.
Rendering with the Animation setting shouldn’t be giving you pixelation as it is (essentially) a lossless format… hmm…
[QUOTE=iLikePie;2323979]The software used will actually matter, different programs have different ways of rendering… for example, professional post-production people recommend never compressing from AE (instead, render out uncompressed and use another program to do the compressing).[/QUOTE]
Of course it does, but using one piece of software over another won’t change the fact that the rendered output shouldn’t change in different viewings within quicktime.
