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Strange problem??
I can seem to figure out where the problem is. I’ve created a project in Motion and exported it to FCP as a QuickTime movie. The settings are the same in both- NTSC DV 720×480 lower field first 29.97. So….when I export my sequence from FCP, the text from the ‘motion’ project is horrible. Here’s the part that I find weird: normally, when you’re viewing in “fit to window” in FCP, video will look fine, but when set to 100%, you’ll see the interlacing, artifacts, etc. Well, what’s odd is the motion segment looks bad in “fit to window” but great when set to 100%….am I making sense?!?! Ugh!
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It’s when you view it at 100% when it is supposed to look good. And if you don’t have an external TV to check this with, that is the best way to tell what your footage looks like.
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But the motion segment looks bad at fit to screen and good at 100%….which is the opposite when viewing most video. When I export, I get horrible results
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Thanks Dave, I know about all of that when it comes to FCP and viewing within….it’s when I export that I’m still seeing the problem. 🙁 is there anything else I should look at?
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Well, I rendered out from motion at apple prores 422…tried everything from changing field orders amd even at “none” same results. Here’s a question, I originally used an hd motion template and exported that put as an image sequence and then imported those images into a new motion project at the NTSC settings…all in order to downscale from HD to SD….I then moved the scale size of the images to 45% to fit appropriately. Could it be somewhere in there where the problem is???
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The HD footage would have been upper first, but Motion should have been able to make the SD footage as lower first and corrected the field order. Just as an experiment, try rendering the SD output as ProRes 422 upper and put the shift field filter on in FCP. If this fixes the problem, then the suspect is Motion converting to SD with a field order issue.
As Dave also pointed out DV codec is terrible particularly on graphics & text so try working in a ProRes 422 timeline for your final renders.
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