Do you lose quality when exporting to Looks?

Existentialist

Existentialist

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So you have some footage, export it to Looks, put a nice filter on it, when you get it back to FCP and render...have you lost some rez/quality?
 
It really depends on what "look" you are using. But overall, the quality of source footage remains intact as far as I can tell. Looks is an amazing tool but sometimes the presets add/subtract so much information that it may appear to corrupt the footage. when I output, I use compressor and run a de-artifactor before that just to keep it as noise free as possible. Hope this helps.
 
filthrich said:
It really depends on what "look" you are using. But overall, the quality of source footage remains intact as far as I can tell. Looks is an amazing tool but sometimes the presets add/subtract so much information that it may appear to corrupt the footage. when I output, I use compressor and run a de-artifactor before that just to keep it as noise free as possible. Hope this helps.
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Which de-artifactor do you use?
 
I use DE:Noise. I also have a de-artifactor in my Magic bullet effects tab. And that one works pretty good as well. If you google DE:Noise, you can get a free download and mess around with it.
 
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