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problem with basic motion in FCP
I am trying to create an ending for my reel where I have various clips tilted in the rotation area of the basic motion tab. They start out small and then get gradually bigger (still tilted) until they are at full frame and positioned as a normal clip (untilted). No matter what I try to do, when the clip is rotated the edges of the clip are jagged. It looks like an interlacing issue but when I de-interlaced, it didn’t help at all. I understand that for bigger animations I should use After Effects or Motion, but I thought for a simple rotation like this I would be able to in Final Cut Pro. Any suggestions? I am kind of on a tight deadline and don’t really have time to start over in Motion. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
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It’s probably best to move on Lori and get a jump on this elsewhere, as I doubt you will be able to loose those jaggies. FCP does not anti-alias rotation as do AE and Motion, so edges will most likely look pretty funky.
You could try adding a Directional Blur set to 0-degrees and amount-2 just to see if it smoothes thngs out for you, but I kind of doubt it will suffice.
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are you viewing it on an external monitor? also, I’m not sure if this helps but perhaps try setting the image in the canvas window to 100% and see if the edges look smooth.
fairly new FCP user so I’m not saying this should help or not…it’s a couple ideas that popped in my head.
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Try cropping a couple of pixels and feathering.
Jon
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I have the same problem – I am using distort settings in the motion tab to create a perspective of a movie screen slightly angled away from you with a slide on it (as in Steve Jobs MacWorld presentation). The layout is great, and the whole effect works well for what I need to do – but the outline of the screen at top and bottom, where the edge is now angled to create perspective rather than horizontal now has the same jagged edges you describe. Did you ever solve the problem? And if so what was the cure?
If not – does anyone else know what I need to do? I am using Final Cut Express (first time user learning as I go on a perhaps overly ambitious project!)
Thanks for any suggestions ……… Gary
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As I have had to solve this problem recently here is the fix/workaround I’ve come up with.
I have a 720×486 seq. My stills are roughly 1300×1800 tiffs. After adding gradual rotation and scale adjustments and a simple white border, in basic motion under crop I added a slight feathered edge of about 5. That solved the outside edge problem. For the inside edge issues I added a slight gausian blur, 1 or 2, and deinterlaced the video. Seems to work well enough although it rerqures a full render and I assume, had I done the moves in Motion initially, it could look better.
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