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  • Poor Text in Motion 2 or FCP 5

    Posted by John Petros on August 22, 2007 at 4:55 am

    For some reason my text always looks blurry and blocky and bleeding – (the 3 bees) I have tried adjusting ire etc. none of that has any effect. Is there something basic that I`m doing wrong that keeps me from getting excellent text?

    John Petros replied 19 years ago 3 Members · 6 Replies
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  • Noah Kadner

    August 22, 2007 at 8:12 am

    Post a still- we can’t see your text from here. Shift Apple 3.

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  • John Petros

    August 23, 2007 at 1:18 am

    Shift Apple 3. takes a picture and puts it on my desktop. Sorry for my ignorance but how do I get that .png picture into this message box?

  • Noah Kadner

    August 23, 2007 at 5:22 am

    You use your own site or a photo hosting service like photo bucket and then post a link.

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  • John Petros

    August 24, 2007 at 1:27 am

    Thanks for the tip. I put them on photo bucket.
    One pic is from Motion, the other is when i render it to the timeline in FCP5.

    https://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff82/ghostcar13/InFCP.png

    https://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff82/ghostcar13/InMotion.png

    I exported as animation, and the standalone .mov file is perfect – just like in motion.

    But when I import the .mov into FCP it gets ugly.
    I made sure the IRE`s are at 70. And the frame rate/size match my current timeline in FCP.
    I also tried duplicating the frames from FCP to Motion but same bad results.
    Anyway I`m at a loss, is there some basic step I`m missing? Have you seen this problem before?

  • Winston A. cely

    August 24, 2007 at 2:45 pm

    I’m not sure what’s going on, but it looks like the FCP pic has been resized to make it 716×300, while the Motion version is 683×347. It’s not a huge difference, but it will effect the quality.

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  • John Petros

    August 25, 2007 at 1:14 am

    No the frame size is not what I`m referring to. The frame size is due to my using the (apple/shift/4) key to draw a square around the text so you can see the quality in both environments.
    I checked and double checked frame size, the output, all, to make sure it matches the FCP timeline media.

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