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Exporting Stills Settings
What output settings allow for the best possible Quality of still Images? Footage is 1080i hdv
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Windows Bitmap is uncompressed.
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Hi Paul,
I found this post because I was searching a way to contact you about an old post.
First your answer:
I use to resize images to a sightly bigger size.. lets say 2000x”whatever is the ratio size” if the image it’s landscape or “whatever is the ratio size” x 1100 if the image it’s squared or vertical. This way I have certain amount of reframing in FCP.
If I have to pan and zoom, then I do the math to calculate the full frame at the maximum zoom. If I have to do a pan I calculate the complete pan (i.e creating a 3500×1200 image).
If you know for sure the final position of the image then just resize in PS at 1920x”n” or to “n”x1080.
FCP can handle larger images but.. slow down rendering processes, takes memory, FCP gets slower and PS does a better resizing than FCP.
Also remember to check at Sequence Setting “Best” for motion quality.
Sometimes still images have “too much” resolution for video, resulting in a flickering/moire frame. The trick here is apply a small amount of gaussian blur to the image something between 0.2 and 0.5. This trick also increases the final quality of texts on DVD menus (even if at your computer screen looks blur)
Regarding the output file formats.. any uncompressed is valid.. but formats like PICT and TGA are easier to handle by FCP and results in more real time.
Hope This helps if is not so late…
Now My question:
I have read in several posts that you have a Multibrigde and a Panasonic AJ-D230.
How did you remote it?
As far as I know, Blackmagic products are ONLY RS-422 and the D230 is ONLY RS-232C
are/was you using a Keyspan? or a Pipeline Digital adapter cable?Thanks in Advance!
Jordi
Jordi J. Recort
Composer & Editor
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