• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  FLASH to FINAL CUT to BROADCAST

  Posted by The Bill on December 6, 2006 at 7:40 pm

  Anyone use flash to do photo and text animations for broadcast?

  I ‘ve havent done this in a year and cant for the life of me remember how I dealt with the square pixel / rectangle pixel issue.

  Basically its a stiil photo with animated text and logo. We are doing it enitrely in Flash and layback the audio in FCP.

  In Flash we out put as a Jpeg sequence. (720×486)
  In Final Cut we have the sequence settings set to
  1) 720×486
  2) pixel NTSC CCIR 601
  3) Feild Dominance None
  4) 29.97
  5) Phot Jpeg @100%

  The only issue is that afer I render the timeline the text and logo look like dung on the pc monitor but looks fine on an NTSC monitor (piped through the firewire deck)I know this is a pixel aspect issue becasue when I set the settings to square…it looks fine and I dont need to render. In the end I am sending this to a post house to dump on onto digibeta and then broadcast but I want to send the correctly formatted file.

  Is there a trick that I’m missing to appease both worlds??

  Thnx in advance
  -B

  The Bill replied 19 years, 8 months ago 1 Member · 1 Reply
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  The Bill

  December 6, 2006 at 9:43 pm

  Hey Dave,
  Thanks for the reply.

  Unfortunately Flash doesn’t offer a .9 pixel aspect ratio as a setting…so the import to FCP will need to be square pixels and the conversion has to be done in FCP…

  Like you say, if it looks fine on a TV monitor, I guess I can ignore the pixelation in the FCP viewer. I’m almost positive I had a work around but oh well.

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