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alias lines in jpg move…
i’m doing a little “ken burns-type effect” with a few stills and not getting very good results. i’ve done this before with photos and it has worked great, but this time not sure why it isn’t looking good. i have a large graphic that i’ve zoomed in on a little bit, and doing a slight rotation as the camera “pans” and “tilts” down the image. the problem is that the lines and boxes that are in the graphic are wreaking havoc on the final look. major chunky stair-stepped “aliasing” lines appear as the image moves (probably mostly from the rotation?).
i’ve done an option with no rotation, and it seems to have fixed the problem. any ideas on how to make it work with some rotation? again, i’m pretty sure the image is large enough, wiht enough detail, to handle the move…but then again, maybe i’m wrong on that.
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Mortimer,
Add a directional vertical blur.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Post-production Supervisor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
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I have found the motion tab in fcp to be very problematic unless your photo’s are very close to D1 size (no zooming or sizing in fcp)
I never use it since even when pics are at D1 size you can still have problems, so i use motion app or after effects where I know it won’t be a problem.
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[Borjis] ” have found the motion tab in fcp to be very problematic unless your photo’s are very close to D1 size (no zooming or sizing in fcp)”
I gotta tell ya Chris, I think something’s definitely wrong with some aspect of your system up there, cuz I animate stills all day long using the motion tab and I have no issues at all. I’ve made docos that were chocked full of moving stills at all sizes, without any problems, including one in HD I’m doing right now has that some really big ones that like 6000×1800 pixels.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Post-production Supervisor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles -
David, whats the easy setup for those HD size moves?
what format are the photos your pushing around?
is the motion tab prefs set for highest quality?
I’m running fcp 5.04one thing I have noticed is that .psd files saved from photoshop cs are aliased, yet if they are exported from AE as a single frame its crisp
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[Borjis] “David, whats the easy setup for those HD size moves?
what format are the photos your pushing around?
is the motion tab prefs set for highest quality?
I’m running fcp 5.04” \I’m working in DVCProHD — I scanned the photos on my $99 Epson scanner as Targa files, intentionally very large so I could animate them very dynamically when required — I’m not even certain what motion tab prefs are set at, they are at default I think.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Post-production Supervisor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles -
Forgive me if you are FAR beyond this answer, but this question/problem is asked very often on this forum.
I hope you are viewing these rendered stills moves on an external monitor, as the canvas itself DOES NOT show you the move at full quality, even once it has been rendered. Only viewing it via an external video source, whether via firewire or video card, will show you what your move is really like. Mostly, in the canvas they just look horrible.
Of course, using sensible sizes to still etc. helps as well.
As I said, apologies if these are baby steps, but….
Ben
Editec Broadcast Editing Ltd
EVS & FCP specialists for live OB operations.
New HD edit/slomo truck on the road this month. Dual FCP systems/6 slomo positions.
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