• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Creating a graph

  Posted by Shyguyjay18 on December 19, 2005 at 6:12 pm

  Hello all:

  What is the best way to create a bar graph to use in Final Cut Pro to be broadcast on television? I had a pre-made jpeg but the text and bars are very fuzzy/flickery. I tried de-interlacing and it just made the text softer and disjointed. (I then tried re-doing just the text in Title 3D but it didn’t help.) (Nor did bringing in the text from photoshop.)

  My current thinking is to just build the entire thing from scratch in Photoshop and save it as a PSD. Is there a better way of doing this? The text is relatively small so I’m not sure how to best create it without looking dreadful. Thanks for any input,

  Jay

  Graeme Nattress replied 20 years, 5 months ago 4 Members · 3 Replies
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  December 19, 2005 at 9:11 pm

  Don’t de-interlace.
  Do add a small bit of Gaussian Blur (somewhere between .25 and 1.25).

  Very thin lines will always “dance”.
  Its best to use thicker lines and/or add blur to soften them across TV scan lines.
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  Jeremy Garchow

  December 19, 2005 at 9:31 pm

  I have never used this, but it’s an option:

  https://www.lyric.com/fcp-plugins/drawing/drawing.htm

  They have a demo if you want to check it out.

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  Graeme Nattress

  December 19, 2005 at 10:55 pm

  There’s a simple fun bargraph plugin in my set 2 that might help. http://www.nattress.com

  Graeme

  – http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP

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