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skankib

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I tried out magic bullet in AE5.5 the other day on a music video I'm currently working on. I'm not too good in AE but I exported my vid from FCP and brought it into AE where i applied the MB filter...first i set up canvas to correct parametres, hit auto setup, then Look Suite and went with the basic setup.

I then exported it as a quicktime file (a mate of mine said it renders quicker, which I think is a load of bollocks)...and the end result was a very pixelated quicktime file.

What have I done wrong?

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Re: magic bullet

Well first it's not the fault of magic bullet. If in your after effect preview everything is looking good you should be able to have a clean result after the rendering.

When you say that you used quicktime for the export, what settings did you use? Because quicktime is a generic name. You must after that tweak the parameters. 1) choose a codec (sorenson 3,...) 2) pick the right parameters for that codec.

The parameters will depend on the destination of your rendering (dvd, web,...)

So what were your parameters for the encoding?

Alex
 
Re: magic bullet

oh right...I simply exported it as a quicktime with current settings...will have a look at the settings in more detail...I had just assumed that if I was happy with the final quicktime output file when exported(after checking it in quicktime) that it would apply the filter accordingly...

anyway thanks- will check export fcp settings...

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Re: magic bullet

Tried using sorenson 3 in fcp export settings but the overall quality when viewed in QT looks worse than before...loads of jaggies...

anything else?

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Re: magic bullet

Ok, if the final output is going to be tv, you should do the render in a lossless format like "quicktime - animation compressor with 100 quality" or export a sequence of tiff files (be sure sur to check that lzw compression is on).

My choice would be the second one. But depending of the length of your ae project, you will need a huge amount of harddrive to stock it.

So now you have a bunch of files with perfect quality. You can load them back in your editing software (if it accept it, what software do you use ?) and export it to tape, or create the mpeg 2 for the dvd.

I hope it helps, there are many other ways to do that.

Alex
 
Re: magic bullet

Another alternative is using the Huffy YUV lossless codec. It'll give you about a 3 to 1 compression ratio with a mathematically lossless image. But your resulting files will be pretty huge.

http://www.avisynth.org/HuffYUV

Rendering back to DV is usually sufficient for most applications, unless you need a high level of chroma detail.

Later, Ethan
http://www.bigmucho.com
 
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