Render Help, Please

CKC wrote on 6/25/2004, 4:39 PM
I am losing video quality, big time, when I render completed After Effects project. The graphic elements are fine, but the video (which looked great while editing on Vegas) looks like sh*t when I incorporate it into AE and then render. Any help out there for a relative newcomer (yet, an enthusiastic one) to the Vegas world. Any input, advice or direction would be greatly appreciated. Thanks,
Craig

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winrockpost wrote on 6/25/2004, 6:59 PM
Render the file uncompressed before going into AE, then uncompressed back to vegas.
Works for me
good luck
CKC wrote on 6/25/2004, 7:16 PM
As a beginner, I am not sure I know the best settings for rendering uncompressed from Vegas to AE and back again. I am thinking that maybe I just render the unaltered video elements, which would no compress, and then bring back from AE and make additional edits to the video footage... but I am not sure about that. Thanks for your help.
winrockpost wrote on 6/25/2004, 7:40 PM
In Vegas choose what you are going to take to AE. Then under file choose render as.In the render as box it says save as type,, here choose video for windows avi, under template choose default uncompressed. take that file to AE and do your stuff, then render from AE AVI uncompressed.This new uncompressed will then need to be rendered as avi,, dv in Vegas.
johnmeyer wrote on 6/26/2004, 9:39 AM
If the result looks as bad as you say, then I doubt that DV compression is the cause. The difference between compressing using Vegas DV compressor and using uncompressed are pretty subtle, especially if the source footage was DV to begin with.

Go ahead and try the uncompressed route, but I think your problem lies elsewhere.

You weren't using MPEG to transfer to AE, were you?