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Still photo problems in FCP sequence
Hello everybody.
I am having a problem with using a scanned microfiche photograph in my video project. The photo was scanned from library microfiche as a tiff file. I am using FCP 4.5 and my sequence settings are 23.98 fps 16×9 anamorphic. When I open up the image in the FCP viewer window, the image looks fine. When I drop it into the timeline it looks fine as well -until I play it and it becomes blurry. There is a render bar over it, but when I render it , IT LOOKS HORRIBLE! Very coarse and grainy – looks like a bad dot-matrix printer. Does anybody know what I can do about this? It is the most important photo in the project, so I’d really like to use it. I have no other problems with other j-pegs, tiffs, scanned photos, etc. Any suggestions???
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5 Replies
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How big is the photo? You might need to drop its resolution so Final Cut doesn’t have do the scaling and pixel interpolation calculations on a large scale. Final Cut’s not very good at that. Use Photoshop to scal the image down to the largest resolution you’ll need, and then bring it into FCP
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You are not editing in a DV time-line? are you? If so, choose a better codec.
rafael -
Are you viewing for QUALITY on an external VIDEO monitor?
You can only judge the quality that way… and not on the computer screen.
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What timeline would you suggest?
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I meant which codec would you suggest?
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