• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Jpeg Images in NTSC DV Timeline

  Posted by Gabe Cotto on May 14, 2008 at 2:38 am

  Hello All,

  Why do my jpeg pictures look blurry in my sequence? When I change the codec to Animation in the sequence setting dialog box, they look fine. But when I change it back to DV/DVCPRO NTSC they look like crap? I thought it might be a render issue, but they still look bad when I export the sequence into a QT file. Can someone please tell me what I’m doing wrong?

  Running FCP 6.03 on 2.0 PPC G5 Mac

  Thank you for your time.

  “Auto save is life.”

  David Roth weiss replied 18 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  David Roth weiss

  May 14, 2008 at 2:40 am

  Very simple, thats the scourge of DV compression. Switch to any other codec as you already found and voila, you avoid the 4.0.0 color space of DV.

  David Roth Weiss
  Director/Editor
  David Weiss Productions, Inc.
  Los Angeles

  POST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™

  A forum host of Creative COW’s Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, and Indie Film & Documentary forums.
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  Gabe Cotto

  May 14, 2008 at 3:49 am

  David,

  Thank you for you reply, for some reason only some of my jpeg images look good, while a couple are looking pretty blurry. The jpeg’s are all the same size and were taken with the same camera (or so I’m told). Do you have any other suggestions?

  Again thank you for your time
  Gabe

  “Auto save is life.”
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  David Roth weiss

  May 14, 2008 at 4:20 am

  Make certain that every one of them comes to rest on a full and even numbered vertical scanline in the motion tab. Any still that shows something like 163 or 211.65 will be blurry.

  David Roth Weiss
  Director/Editor
  David Weiss Productions, Inc.
  Los Angeles

  POST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™

  A forum host of Creative COW’s Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, and Indie Film & Documentary forums.

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