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rendering targa alpha files in FCS2
I have some lower thirds made by my designer and saved out as Targa files with alpha channels. They rendered fine over standard def 10 bit uncompressed video with the render settings set to “normal”. Now I’ve set my render preferences to “best” and they look aliased.
Not to mention that I now experience much longer render times and frequent “out of memory errors”.
Suggestions anyone?
cheers,
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[Greg Nosaty] “Now I’ve set my render preferences to “best” and they look aliased.”
I too have experienced the problem whe switching to best, not in FCS2 because I learned my lesson back in FCS1. Just leave it on normal.
David
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Post-production Supervisor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles -
I have switched back to “normal” and when I render my Targa files they still look aliased.
I think this is a nasty uncompressed 10bit think. Graeme Nattress has sent me a fix for one of his plugs and mentioned that Apple has some unresolved issues with 10 bit. It’s too late for me to recapture at 8 bit so I’ll have to make the best of it.
cheers,
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Greg,
For which plugin you got the fix?
Rafael -
The first was the “G Film Flash” v2.5.1 the other was “G Film Dissolve – Teknocolor Positive” both were transition FX.
cheers,
greg -
[David Roth Weiss] “I too have experienced the problem whe switching to best, not in FCS2 because I learned my lesson back in FCS1. Just leave it on normal.”
Same here.
But I noticed when its switched to Fast it looks the best. (fcp 5.04 at least)
very odd.
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Thanks Greg. I have to write to Graeme because I’ve got also an issue with the G transitions. If I set them in YUV the image get streched in the top of the screen of my external monitor, although they look well in the camvas. but when rendered they are really stretched. Doesn’t happens in RGB. I don’t know if is something related with my BM card.
Thanks again for the info.
Rafael -
Hi Rafael
Here is Graemes reply to my pluggin question:
There are some bugs in the FCP code for 10bit rendering, and every so often they get found, and it looks like you’ve found another.
I try to test all the plugs in 10bit but sometimes they fall through the cracks. let me have a play with this plugin here and get back to you with what I find…
Set the dissolve to RGB mode for 10bit video. Know that sounds strange, but it makes it render right. Looks like there’s a YUV bug in the 10bit rendering path in FCP which I can report, but I doubt if they’ll fix…..
Graeme
I hope this helps you.
cheers,
greg
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