• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  text animation coming out pixely on dvd

  Posted by Patrick Cecilian on July 22, 2008 at 2:17 am

  I created several simple animated texts in FCP.

  Burnt them to a dvd using quicktime movie.

  Watched the dvd and the animated texts came out all jittery and pixely and messed up.

  You guys are always life savers.
  sequence settings are
  720×480
  29.97

  Thank you!

  Pat C.

  Tom Brooks replied 17 years, 10 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Tom Brooks

  July 22, 2008 at 5:26 pm

  Pat,
  In spite of your good attempt to provide detail, your problem could have many, many different explanations. I’ll offer a couple things to look at.

  If it looked good in Final Cut but bad on the DVD, you may have compression quality problems. It sounds like you’re letting DVD Studio Pro do the MPEG-2 compression for you. Try doing that step in Compressor and then bring the resulting MPEG-2 file into DVD Studio Pro. Use one of the Best Quality DVD settings.

  It could also simply be the bad quality of titles in DV video in general. If your exported Quicktime movie is DV format(probable, based on dimensions), try making a copy of your sequence and change the “compressor” in the sequence settings to DV50. DV50 is a much better compression scheme than DV and the titles will immediately look better. Then export from the sequence using Compressor and choose one of the Best Quality DVD settings. Again, drag that completed MPEG-2 file into a track in DVD Studio Pro and finish your DVD as needed.

  You could also be observing interlacing as displayed on a progressive monitor. Interlacing itself is not inherently bad. It’s only bad when your monitor is unable to display it properly. The solution here depends on what else is contained in your video. If it’s just titles that move, you could set the Field Dominance of your sequence to None and export that.

  In any case, the change to DV50 and the better compression done in Compressor should help your final result.
  -Tom

  Final Cut Pro 6.0.3, Mac OS-X 10.4.11, Quicktime 7.5, After Effects 6.5 Pro, G5 Quad 2.5, Kona-LHe V5.1, 4.5GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce 7800-GT 256MB, G-RAID 2x1TB FW800, 6TB RAID-5 (Enhance E8-ML, Highpoint 2322), Panasonic HVX-200P P2.

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