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Better quality stills before render
Lapse of sanity? What would cause my stills (with simple motion added) to appear crappy when I render them and fine when i UN-render them? I am working on a simple DV 720×486 program, I noticed that some of my LiveType gfx were edgy and nasty, so I started playing around with settings and sizes and noticed inconsistencies in size and field pref. So I reloaded a stock DV setting into the sequence and re-rendered. Now the stills are mashugana (sp?) Starting to lose it. Can some one slap me back to the obvious?
Mark @ MEDIACOMM
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WHen you see stills unrendered in the timeline, or in the Viewer, you see them as they are. But when you render them, they take on the characteristics of the codec you are working with, in this case, DV. DV is not a pretty codec when it comes to pictures and text.
Shane
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And you need to be monitoring on an external interlace monitor as well to judge accurately.
DV is an awful codec to finsh with. Better off dropping everything in an uncompressed or ProRes for the final render.
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But I’ve never had this problem before. I’ll try a different setting, and I am monitoring externally. Obviously a cockpit problem using fcp6
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It may also be a resolution issue with the stills. What pixel aspect are they?
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I’ve used square and 601 or whatever that DV one is, lower field, no dominant field. No render good. Rendered, bad.
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I’ve used square and 601 or whatever that DV one is, lower field, no dominant field. No render good. Rendered, bad.
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That was the right direction MG 🙂 I only THOUGHT i was changing the aspect ratio of the pic. I now get that I have to change the format to “square” in the browser and then bring the clip back down to the sequence/timeline. Control clicking on the clip in the seq does nada. Thanks for taking the time to respond. ~m
Mark @ Tropical Visions Video, Inc.
Hilo, Hawaii
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