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Rotating and scaling
I have a video in DVCPPRO HD 1080i 60. I need to create a SD DVD to be played on a vertical LCD TV display.
I’m using FCP motion panel to scale at 120% and rotate at -90, and then using Compressor to generate the MPEG2 file.
The results have not been satisfactory.
Should I first edit the file, export the rotated and scaled file to either uncompressed or DVCPRO HD and then use Compressor to create the MPEG, or is it better to do it directly from FCP.
In either case, what should be the ideal settings in order not to loose quality. Specially in field dominance, frame controls, anti alias and details, since the entire movie has been rotated and zoomed in.
I’m using FCP 5.1.4 Thanks for any help!
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4 Replies
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Hi Alex,
I don’t understand that having a 1080 clip and going to SD you have blow the picture up.
About rotating the image, don’t use “Rotation” in the Motion tab. FC have a limitation and when “Rotation” is used, all the Motion rendering is done “Linear”. The lower quality available in FC.
You better use the 3D filter or better, “Andy’s Better 3D”. You can download it for free.
Cheers,
rafael -
Then I’m doing something very wrong. My timeline is 1080, so I place the video on it, and after I rotate, I have to zoom it in order to make the film fill out most of the screen. If I’m doing something wrong please let me know. I would think that there should be a way that I could place a 1080 on a 480 so I would not have to blow it, but instead just make it smaller, but since the timeline is 1080, and on sequence settings I have DVCPRO HD 1080i 60, it seems I have to blow it.
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If you are going to end up with SD DVD why are you editing in 1080i timeline? Why not export 1080 file as Quicktime file (not compressed) and import as FILE to 720 timeline or lower format? Double click 1080 QT back into viewer and you should be able to zoom in many times over without losing res, especially when you want to rotate in the timeline (which is my understanding). 1080 files show up as 66% in the 720 timeline and you can zoom in up to 100-120% without losing too much clarity..
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Alex
If you prefer, you could edit in a native timeline and then crop as needed in Compressor on export … you could create a custom guide overlay to show/mask what will be cropped so you can easily rotate and reframe the shots as needed without unnecessary scaling. You could create the guide overlay for yourself in Photoshop or similar, or just use a mask shape on a slug track, or there is also Digital Heaven’s free DH_Guides filter https://www.digital-heaven.co.uk/freeware or my own guides filter at https://web.me.com/andymees
Hope it helps
Andy
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