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importing quicktime
I’m working with a first time FCP editor and he says that all my graphics look soft once he imports them. I have not had this problem with other editors so I don’t know what to tell him. I rendered everything 720 x 480 lower field animation compression. Any ideas? Thanks.
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[PDesign] “I’m working with a first time FCP editor”
There are a lot of things that could be causing it for a first timer. Make sure he’s rendered the file in FCP. Ask him what his sequence settings are. What does the graphic look soft on, a broadcast monitor, QuickTime, FCP preview…?
The more info you can get from him the better chance you have of walking him through what he’s doing wrong.
-Russ
Russell Lasson
Kaleidoscope Pictures
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This is Shane’s Stock Answer #2…
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/ross_shane/fcp_faq.php
Shane
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He said that it is after he renders them that they go soft. He said that when they are imported they are being compressed to DV25. He has told me that on an Avid he could import tham at animation compression but he does not have that option in FCP. Make sense. I appreciate your help.
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[Paul Pridgeon] “He said that when they are imported they are being compressed to DV25.”
If your sequence is a DV sequence, then the imported file will render out as DV. If you don’t want the sequence to be a DV sequence, choose a different Easy Setup then make a new sequence. BUT…if all your clips and video files are DV, then that would mean rendering THEM.
[Paul Pridgeon] “He has told me that on an Avid he could import tham at animation compression but he does not have that option in FCP.”
Avid imports and converts the footage…FCP does not. FCP imports the file exactly as it was created. It doesn’t convert them to anything…all it does is create a clip in the Browser that points to the existing media. So in this respect it is BETTER than Avid. If you drop an Animation codec file onto a Avid DV timeline, it will render out to DV too…
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so what are you suggesting then? Is it better to use DV compression instead of animation compresion. I have worked with 4 or 5 other FCP editors and I don’t have this problem and they always ask for animation compression
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As a general rule that I follow, I render graphics out in the codec that the show will be finished at, unless it needs an alpha channel. This prevents FCP from having to render the files again. I do this because it’s more efficient and because I don’t always trust how FCP renders graphics.
Now having said that, animation files shouldn’t be going significantly soft when rendered in a DV timeline, so there is probably another solution for you.
-Russ
Russell Lasson
Kaleidoscope Pictures
Provo, UT
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