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Blurry Transition After Export
When I add a push slide to a clip in FCP 7, it plays smooth in the program, but when I export the video the image becomes slightly blurry when the transition happens. It looks like the image is duplicated, a bit transparent, and slightly off to the side. I don’t understand this since it looks perfect when I play it in FCP. Anyone know the reason for this and a possible solution? Thanks!
edit: When I open the exported video and click through frame by frame, it almost looks as if there are two slide transitions, separated, one frame apart. When I arrow over one frame, the image moves to the left, while a duplicate image stays where it is, and starts moving one frame after the first image. So it’s creating a one-frame ghosting effect. I have no idea why it’s doing after exporting!!!
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21 Replies
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Can you please use Grab to make a screen grab of tutor sequence settings?
And, in the Render Dialog is Full checked? If not, check everything there and rerender the timeline.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los AngelesDavid is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.
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my guess your sequence is interlaced.
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Hi Dave,
Everything is rendered. I’m not sure what you mean by tutor sequence settings, but here are the settings I have.
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[Bobby Hall] “I’m not sure what you mean by tutor sequence settings, but here are the settings I have.”
That was Siri spell checking “your sequence settings”… you did just fine translating, and your sequence settings are ALL good too.
What I would do in this case is:
1) open Render Manager
2) delete all renders in your project
3) re-render the entire sequenceThat “should” fix your issue.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los AngelesDavid is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.
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Field Dominance = Upper
yep interlaced.
an interlaced slide transition will not look good when viewed on a computer screen.
although what you describe sounds weirder than field combing.
hard to say without seeing what you’re seeing.nick
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“1) open Render Manager
2) delete all renders in your project
3) re-render the entire sequence”sounds like overkill to me.
simply re-rendering that effect would give the same result.at least copy and paste that section into a new sequence before you do a total re-render.
nick
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Thanks David, but that didn’t fix the problem. Does the fact that my settings say the aspect ratio is HDTV 1080i mean that my video is interlaced? I used a Canon DSLR camera to shoot my video, which I believe is progressive, so I don’t really understand why it says 1080i.
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“Does the fact that my settings say the aspect ratio is HDTV 1080i mean that my video is interlaced?”
no, Field Dominance = Upper tells you that your SEQUENCE is interlaced
Field Dominance not set to “None” would be progressive“I used a Canon DSLR camera to shoot my video, which I believe is progressive”
look at the the properties of your clips,
or look in the browser for the Field Dominance column.you could have a progressive clip in an interlaced sequence,
for the most part it would not be noticeable, BUT any motion effects or transitions would give it away.
their motion would be interlaced, which would look odd when viewed on a (Progressive) computer screen.nick
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Thanks Nick.
I just changed the field dominance from Upper to None and when I exported the video, the transition played perfectly! So that’s all I needed to do. I can’t believe the headaches this has caused me, but I’m glad it’s cleared up now! So thanks Nick and David for your help!
What I don’t understand is how come when I import my clips into FCP it lists the field dominance as Upper in the browser? I shoot my videos with a Canon T3i, which shoots progressive, so why does FCP automatically think it’s interlaced?
I don’t know why, but at least I know I just need to change the field dominance.
Here’s a still of what the transition looks like interlaced:
And here’s a still of it progressive:
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“I shoot my videos with a Canon T3i, which shoots progressive”
does ONLY shoot progressive?
i’d double check that.
or maybe you shot at a high frame rate (59.whatever) which FCP sees as 29.something but interlaced?you should sort it out, because putting interlaced footage into a progressive sequence is one way to de-interlace it.
but it’s the worst way.nick
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