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Activity Forums Apple Final Cut Pro Power Point slides look sharp until I play on the timeline ,then they blur just a little.

  • Bret Williams

    January 30, 2016 at 4:41 am

    Are you playing back as better quality or better performance? Sounds like the latter which lessens the quality a little for much better RT playback.

  • Scott Witthaus

    January 31, 2016 at 8:51 pm

    It’s under the View dropdown menu at the top right. Choose Better Quality.

    Scott Witthaus
    Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
    1708 Inc./Editorial
    Professor, VCU Brandcenter

  • Patrick Donegan

    February 1, 2016 at 5:08 am

    I have noticed that PPT slides look blurring while playing until they get rendered.

    FCP X 10.2.2 – user since FCP 1.25
    iMac mid 2011, MBA mid 2012
    HVX-200, Shure wireless mic

  • Mark Suszko

    February 1, 2016 at 2:23 pm

    You already got the most likely answers, but, I’ll be the one to ask: how are the slides set up/generated?

    Did you have powerpoint export a movie file or individual stills, and if stills, what frame size and format?

    When I’m doing these (in fact, doing one today), I pre-format the slides from 3:4 to already be 16:9 (Surprising, how many users don’t know you can change that, and they do horrible stretches instead to fit a frame), apply drop shadows on the bare text lines to make them read better, and I output full HD size .tif files.

    I also always make one extra slide that’s just a bare background in the same style as the original slides – makes it easier to do fixes later.

  • Ty Ford

    February 1, 2016 at 2:31 pm

    Thanks Everyone!

    Mark, These were individual jpeg files. I wasn’t the one exporting them, so I can’t really answer much more.

    This will be a 4:3 presentation and that’s the way the slides are formatted.

    Regards,

    Ty Ford

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