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Quality Issue
I have a screen capture movie that I recorded with Snapz Pro X, when I bring it in to the viewer in Final Cut it looks fine. But when I put it in the timeline it gets all fuzzy. Anyone know how to fix?
The Apple Studio geniuses couldn’t fix the problem, they suggested I come here.
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You must only judge QUALITY on an external (NTSC or PAL) VIDEO monitor.
You cannot judge quality in the Canvas window on the computer monitor.
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Snapz Pro is first grabbing an uncompressed movie and then you can have it written into all the formats supported by QuickTime. I tend to use uncompressed 4:2:2 if I have the space and Photo-JPEG@75% if space is tight (but that’s never RT in FCP).
Which format did you use? We made quite a few tutorials over here with Snapz Pro and the quality was perfect.
You know that the Canvas might be set to display less than full quality, do you?
Regards,
Uli
Author of “DVDs gestalten und produzieren”, a book on professional DVD-authoring in German.
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Yes, I do know.
I tried Uncompressed 4:2:2 and it was the same thing. It is fuzzy in the canvas and exported version.
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I’m outputting to the web, so there is no point for an external monitor. Plus, I don’t have an external monitor.
It is still fuzzy even in the exported version, so the canvas is not the problem.
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Could this be a scaling problem?
Regards,
Uli
Author of “DVDs gestalten und produzieren”, a book on professional DVD-authoring in German.
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You didn’t seem to like like my first answer.
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[tmacdonald] “I have a screen capture movie that I recorded with Snapz Pro X, when I bring it in to the viewer in Final Cut it looks fine. But when I put it in the timeline it gets all fuzzy. Anyone know how to fix?”
Did you render it out in the Canvas? You’re probably set to Dynamic Resolution in the Canvas, rendering the clip brings it to full resolution. Also the Canvas needs to exactly match your clip settings to show in best resolution.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Food Network’s “Good Eats”
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Yes, I did render in the canvas.
How would I change the canvas settings?
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I guess. But if I am outputting to the web, how would an external monitor help? I should judge the quality on the computer, because everyone else will be viewing it on the computer.
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I get the sneaking suspicion that language may be a barrier here…
If you are capturing using Snapz and your destination is the web and your movie — which if I read between the lines in your comments (as they are not really very clear) — I suspect the resulting web movie you are making is the fuzzy one. If that is the case, it is likely your compressor codec choice.
If you check out some of our After Effects and other podcast episodes ( which can be found at https://www.creativecow.net/podcasts ), they are very crystal clear and they are compressed using a combination of Sorenson Squeeze and H.264.
Most of our early attempts using anything else looked like, well, er, um, cowpies.
Ron Lindeboom
creativecow.net
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