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  Why does a Motion 5 (1920×1080) effect get blurry in a SD FCPX project?

  Posted by Robbert-jan Van der does on July 26, 2011 at 10:13 pm

  I’m almost ready with an effect I created in Motion 5. It is 2D and some layers had to be rasterized because of Blend Modes and/or Masks.
  I added a custom snapshot for PAL SD Anamorphic aspect ratio. First I did not have a custom snapshot for SD but then I noticed that layers with a project size (1920×1080) were a few percent squeezed horizontally in a SD FCPX project. The snapshot corrected for this.
  The strange thing is that an HD Motion 5 project looks very blurry in a SD project in FCPX. That same HD project looks perfect in both 1080 and 720 HD.
  I can understand that Motion has to do scaling for SD, but it is only scaling DOWN.
  Does anyone know why this happens? Is there some setting I have missed?
  By the way, all my project and clip settings are Progressive, both in Motion and FCPX.

  Any help very much appreciated.

  Kind regards,

  Robbert-Jan van der Does
  lighting cameraman/steadicam operator/editor

  WISIWYG (What I See Is What You Get)

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