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editing JPG in FCP blurry
I had some hi-res JPG today. I imported it in FCP because I needed to animate them. The JPG’s were scanned by somebody else.
After import in FCP, the stills became blurry. Probably because FCP makes an image with 2 fields.
Is there a way to edit in FCP in progressive mode? The result must be showed on a computer screen so the stills must be progressive after all.
I tried motion, but the same thing happened. The movement (zoom & pan) was OK but the image became blurry.
Any ideas?Thanks,
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Are you viewing all this on an external NTSC monitor/TV? You cannot use the computer monitors to judge the quality of your image.
Did you reder the timeline? When you drop it into the timeline you will get a green render bar. this means it will play back , but blurry.
Shane
Alokut Productions
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You must have the image rest on EVEN values in the position parameter under your motion tab or you will get blurry pics. Try repositioning so that the start and end point of your moves are on EVEN values that have no decimals.
Example:
200, 154 is okay and should look crisp
but
201, 155 will probably give you a blurry image
200.3, 154.7 will also give you a blurry image b/c of the decimals
Best
Bob -
You said you used hi-res images.
That may be your problem. Take the photos into photoshop and make them more video friendly.
if they are a large image size, take it down to say 640×480 or at least under 1000 each way (depending on how big it is).
Also make sure your dpi is set to 72.
You probably have an image that is too good for video, so FCP compensates by blurring it out.
I know it sounds weird, but this has solved that exact problem for me many times. -
I don’t want to make the JPG to small, because I want to zoom on it.
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then make it just big enough for its large point on the zoom.
The dpi is the main thing that will help with its blurriness.
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