Simon Edmondson Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 I may not be asking this in the appropriate place, If sO I apologise. I have spent a long time rendering out .tga files from my current project. They were rendered at 1920 x 1060 and I am now trying to compile the frames in Final Cut Pro into the finished piece. Can anyone advise as to what video Codec to use to get the best quality at full registration ? The still frames rendered have no visual banding but, when I compile them in FCP, even in uncompressed form, ( all 508Mb for 3 seconds worth ) then banding is very noticeable. Is there acny way around this ? If I am asking in the wrong place, can anyone advise as to where to ask ? sincerely Simon Edmondson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubba Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 In the rendering setup window trying opening the triangle, then click on Set. It should open up all the codes available. If you have FCP, you might try the 4.2.2 codec, or a PRO50. If you scroll down this topic, http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=39604 it should show you what I am talking about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Edmondson Posted March 14, 2011 Author Share Posted March 14, 2011 In the rendering setup window trying opening the triangle, then click on Set. It should open up all the codes available. If you have FCP, you might try the 4.2.2 codec, or a PRO50. If you scroll down this topic, http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=39604 it should show you what I am talking about. Thank you very much indeed for your informative reply. regards simon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted March 14, 2011 Hash Fellow Share Posted March 14, 2011 I had a banding problem with a project being edited in After Effects and there the solution was setting AE to use 16 bits per channel rather than 8. But ultimately it still had to got to a 8bpc codec so it's a mystery to me why that was better in the end. Does FCP have a forum, perhaps? This is probably something they've all encountered. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkwing Posted March 15, 2011 Share Posted March 15, 2011 I use FCE and I'll say that anything imported using the .mov format with the Apple Intermediate Codec works like a charm. Apparently it is the prefered format as FCE doesn't have to render it out either. Of course I use AM to compile the frames and export as .mov as opposed to using FCE for that function Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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