• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Bad Quality export :(

  Posted by Senem Ocal on November 11, 2010 at 9:09 am

  Hi everyone…

  i finish my editing with final cut pro 7. i saw good quality when playing on timeline. But when i stopped playing the quality getting bad at the freeze frame.
  And i cant get qood quality export. I saw the film as freeze frame quality…

  Do you have any suggestions?

  Zak Ray replied 15 years, 5 months ago 3 Members · 12 Replies
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  Zak Ray

  November 11, 2010 at 8:06 pm

  What format of footage are you working with? What do you mean “it got bad”?
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  Nicolas Servide

  November 21, 2010 at 3:28 pm

  I get a very similar problem.

  The video in the timeline looks fine, but when exporting using ANY METHOD, the image looks jagged.

  Also, I cannot export a QT reference. Even it “make movie self-content” is uncheked, the result is the same.

  Any thought?

  Thanks!
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  Zak Ray

  November 21, 2010 at 10:28 pm

  Again, what kind of footage are you working with, and what are your sequence settings?
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  Nicolas Servide

  November 22, 2010 at 10:18 am

  Hi,

  I am working with video shot with the codec DVCPRO HD 720p50
  You can see the timeline settings in the image.

  I have tried to export using “QuickTime conversion” and also via Compressor with really bad results.
  Actually if I create some text, the letters would look bad as soon as I render the sequence.

  Ps. Also, I cannot create a QT reference (even when “make movie self-content is unchecked). Is it a known Final Cut bug or is it just me?

  Thanks!
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  Zak Ray

  November 22, 2010 at 7:49 pm

  If you haven’t rendered your sequence beforehand, this can prevent FCP from creating a reference file (because it has nothing to reference).

  I see no image attached.
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  Nicolas Servide

  November 22, 2010 at 7:54 pm

  Hi Zak,

  Thanks for your reply.
  I will try rendering the sequence first.

  These are my setting:

  

  Any idea about the jagged text?

  Thanks!
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  Nicolas Servide

  November 22, 2010 at 7:56 pm

  Oh, I forgot,
  I have also tried setting the dominance field to “none”
  with no better results…
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  Zak Ray

  November 22, 2010 at 7:58 pm

  Not sure why your text is coming out poorly (are you viewing it at 100% or using a broadcast monitor?).

  As for the export itself, I’d recommend using QT Movie (not QT Conversion) to get a self-contained file at full quality. Then bring that to Compressor for further compression.
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  Nicolas Servide

  November 22, 2010 at 8:18 pm

  Thanks for the exporting tip.

  I am viewing the video at 100% in my iMac.

  I just find a way around it, sending the video to MOTION and adding the text there. But it must be a way of doing this in FCP, right?
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  Zak Ray

  November 22, 2010 at 8:37 pm

  Can you send a screenshot?

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