loss of quality in AE

[Raptor]

Well i just got the trial for After Effects 6.5 Proffesional 2 days ago, and i can already tell that AE is much more powerful but at the same time more complex. Premiere doesnt have the special effects capabilities of After Effects but its role isnt really cutting edge special effects. They both have their uses

Premiere is for editing, and very simple effects... AE ids for effects, and very simple editing. Put them together and it becomes a very powerful team. Now tot he color problem in premiere, if you are capturing in premiere, and rendering in premiere to DV-AVI and not doing any color processing to the file, there is no loss of color info. Put it on a scope, and the color info will be the same. Same data being rendered by the same codec. remember, it is not analog, it is 1's and 0's a true digital file. If the same codec is used both ways, then the information will be exactly the same. If you have made any adjustments in premiere, like the black levels, or max IRE for whites, then yes the information will change and the color will change. Anyother modification of the file will also affect the color space. But all hardware issues being equal, simply capturing, cutting and rendering tothe same format wil have no effect on color space, any change of format, sat to MPEG2 for DVD etc, tehn yes there could be some color shift, not because of premiere, but because of how different codecs encode the same digital data.

[crossfire]

Ah i see thx Raptor

[reflexive_cinematics]

When you render things out, just use Microsoft AVI ( the non DV avi ) and never set your color settings to higher than they are naturally. You will see a loss of quality when you do that.. i.e. if you out put your graphics and text at Millions of Colors + when it was set normally to Millions of Colors.


Here, read this topic..

http://www.matthawkins.co.uk/forum/view ... highlight=

[crossfire]

Who ever figured that setting your color info higher will make it go lower!?!? i would never in 5 hundred twenty seven years have figured that out, but i guess it can make sense if you think about it, thx