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8bit to 32bit floating
I was reading this post (https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/rendering_quality_balis.html) at Ken Stone’s site about how you can possibly get better quality end results if you’re working with multiple effects in a shot by upping the bit resolution in your project.
When I changed to higher quality settings for FCP and Motion on my current project the computer freaked out, all kinds of digital noise where effects were, it would sometimes forget to display layers even though they were enabled. I’m working on a newish Mac Pro, with about everything you could throw into it, so it’s not about processing power or memory.
I had to turn everything back to 8 bit and “normal” to make everything play the way it was supposed to. Could this have happened because I didn’t start out the project at the higher bit rate? Im working with DV footage with multiple mattes, green screen, and graphics from Motion 3.I appreciate any input y’all might have.
Thanks,
Andy -
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Hi Andy,
Enable High Quality (High Precision) in FC makes sense if you change also your sequence codec.
If you are rendering DV footage, you need to set your sequence to DV50, 8b Unc or, better, Proress.
If you keep your sequence as DV, all the fine rendering you get is crunched when you compressed back to DV.
Cheers,
rafael
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