Pixlet Video Renders Blue

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Pixlet Video Renders Blue

So, I am exporting uncompressed .avi's out of Maya on my PC and bringing them into Final Cut Pro. If my Quicktime Video Settings (under Sequence Settings) is set to any codec other than Pixlet it renders fine (Animation, h.264, DV, etc). But, if I set the compressor to Pixlet (which is our final delivery format) when I render a clip in the timeline it is tinted completely blue. Has anyone else experienced this or have a suggeston on how to fix it?

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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.4.10), Final Cut Studio 2

Posted on Jul 2, 2007 2:30 PM

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Shane Ross

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Jul 2, 2007 2:36 PM in response to Fluid Luke

Render to PIXLET when you are DONE...and delivering. It isn't a codec that is used for editing. Neither is H.264.

Uncompressed AVIs...from DV source? Or higher end? If so, export to similar settings in FCP...either DV/NTSC, or uncompressed 8 bit...edit in that format, then and ONLY then...when you are done, should you export as Pixlet.

Really? Pixlet? I thought that codec was dead? I haven't seen it in a LONG time.

Shane

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Fluid Luke Author

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Jul 2, 2007 3:04 PM in response to Shane Ross

Yeah, it gives us a very good picture with small file sizes. We've analyzed several codecs against the uncompressed files we get out of Maya and the quality loss is minimal, it's actually a very good codec for our needs. Everything is 3d animation generated out of Maya, no DV source or anything like that. Animation codec gives us great image quality, obviously, but the files are so much bigger than Pixlet.

What do you think about the Under Dog live action movie. I think it looks like crap, blasphemous even.

Thanks.

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