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platypus
06-15-2005, 09:38 PM
ok... I have a series of tiff images that I rendered out from Maya at 720x480, with pixel aspect ratio of 1.0

i then bring these frames into Premiere (6.5) to assemble them. Premiere project is set to the "Standard 48kHz" DV - NTSC settings (720x480, Pixel Aspect Ratio = D1/DV NTSC (0.9)). I then export the sequence as an uncompressed Quicktime file (again at .9 and 720x480)...

everything is fine up to this point. the exported .mov file looks great.

I next start a new composition in After Effects (NTSC DV, 720 x 480 preset with .9 PAR). i import the .mov file, which still looks fine if i preview it from within AE... BUT the second that I actually drop the quicktime file into the AE composition, it looks terrible - edges especially look very pixelated.

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so, does anybody have any suggestions? or any idea what i am doing wrong here? I am assuming that it is some step between Premiere and AE - either my output settings from Permiere, or the composition settings in AE.

any help would be much appreciated. this is driving me nuts.
AAAron
06-15-2005, 10:22 PM
Why donīt you bring the image seq directly in to Afx and assemble it there instead?
And if you rendered it as 1.0 in pixel ratio, you should continue that all trough the workflow otherwise you will get a (minor in this case) strech of the image.
XanderFX
06-15-2005, 10:23 PM
You probably just need to click the little quality box it its the 3rd box from the right in your layer switche/modes column. the one that looks like this \ or this / one way is high quality preview the other is draft. Its there for increasing performance in AE. Or your comp is set to half instead of full in the video preview window. If you render from AE I'm sure it would look just fine.

One question Why are you rendering a sequence out of premiere into a quicktime and then going into AE? You should bring the tiff sequence into AE do your compositing and effects and then export an uncompressed avi or QT to edit in Premiere.
platypus
06-16-2005, 03:49 AM
many thanks to both of you...

I have been using Premiere for years now, but I am truthfully still pretty much a noob when it comes to AE - have mainly just used it for simple title sequences / credits in the past - and I honestly did not even know that it was possible to import a sequence of images until now. Or rather... i assumed that it was possible, but just hadn't taken the initiative to figure it out, so i was doing that roundabout thing with Premiere instead.

anyway, thanks again... importing the sequence directly to AE did the trick.
winsly
06-22-2005, 12:41 PM
creat a Composition in After effects (NTSC preset) And drag ur maya created picture sequences into that & then render it as uncompressed mov or avi


later on do ur edit on premiere and export it as same way in mov uncompressed or mov

and then try it in aftereffects
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