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6.0.5 screwing Motion renders?
Preparing a 20 minute piece for the Web, in a project I’ve gone back to since upgrading to 6.0.5 (and 10.5.6). All the endtitles were in Motion so I added a URL and some other tweaks, exported the render and then went back into FCP. All seemed ok and then did a -lengthy- export via Compressor to H.264. Viewed the piece all the way to the end and then discovered ‘fuzzy’ titles.
I went back into FCP and yes, looking at the canvas in 100% view & ‘correct for aspect ratio’, the titles are not clear. Looking at the exported file from Motion, all looks good. ???
I strongly prefer to bring an actual movie into FCP from Motion, rather than embed the Motion project itself because:
1 – I often go into Color and it barfs on Motion projects
2 – Whenever I go back into old projects, and there has been an embedded Motion project, upgrades to Motion or font changes or some other gremlins cause me problems. Having a Quicktime movie is never a problem…..until now.The Motion project settings are 720×480, PAR:NTSC D1/DV Anamorphic 1.2 and Field Order:None. I’m exporting in the Animation Codec.
The FCP sequence I’m bringing the Motion render into is 720×480, Aspect Ratio: NTSC DV (3:2), PAR: CCIR 601/DV and Anamorphic is ticked. Field Dominance: None and codec is Apple ProRes 422 HQ. In the browser window, the Motion render is ticked as Anamorphic and in user settings, ‘render control is best quality’ is ticked.
No notes in the 6.0.5 release notes.
Embedding the project fixes the problem and it looks clean again. Thus, now replacing all my Motion exports with embedded Motion projects 🙁
Am I missing something (and thus will bow to the FCP gods in this forum) or is this an actual bug?
Tim Burgess
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Just to confirm you’re looking at the rendered version in FCP. Is that right?
All the best,
Tom
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Yes. From Motion, I export to produce a self-contained quicktime and in FCP, import that quicktime and ensure that for that item, anamorphic is ticked and the field dominance is set to none.
Just been looking at another sequence which is uncompressed-10bit and exactly the same issue. Fixed by simply bringing in the Motion project. So it seems unrelated to the codec used in the sequence – very weird.
Tim Burgess
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