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10bit Letterbox renders – edges look a little soft
I’m mastering a HDCAM series and have captured at 8bit uncompressed and color corrected in 10bit. It’s anamorphic, so prior to print, I converted it to a letterbox sequence and eveything looks fine.
Because of the heavy Color correction work, FCP renders the seq prior to printing – something that takes about 4 hours. No problem, except my letterbox edges no longer look sharp: they’re now a little soft. The rest of the picture looks fine.
I’d like my edges to remain sharp. Any idea why this happpens and how to correct it?
Thanks
PaulI’m running FCP 5 on a G5 dual 2.7 with a Kona 2 capture card.
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so this is a HD timeline? you said Anamorphic so you letterboxed it, so it’s a 2.35 program?
fool around with the motion render quality (fast, normal, best). also if you’re in a SD timeline, set field rendering to none.
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Make sure the RT Pop Up is set to Safe RT, High Quality, Full Frame Rate.
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Thanks for the reply,
so this is a HD timeline? you said Anamorphic so you letterboxed it, so it’s a 2.35 program?
Sorry. Forgot to specify, it was shot in HD; we’re posting in SD.
fool around with the motion render quality (fast, normal, best). also if you’re in a SD timeline, set field rendering to none.”
Tried motion render quality – doesn’t solve the problem. Looking for field rendering option: Where do I find it? I can’t seem to see it anywhere.
Thanks again,
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Kevin,
Perhaps a dumb question, but why would these settings affect the fully rendered output under any other settings?
Thanks, Andy
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