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Adding Border to JPEG error
Hi,
I am having an issue when applying the “Basic Border” filer to some of my jpeg stills. I am not cropping any photo. All photos are being used as imported into the project. I am applying a 20 px border in white around every photo. On some photos, the border is only appearing 80% on top and left, and not at all on Right and Bottom. I cannot figure out the difference between the pictures it works on and the ones it does not. It should be a simple “add filter”. Does anyone know if there is a bug or a quick workaround for this?
I am editing in FCP7. Sequence Settings are NTSC 3:2 Anamorphic, 29.97 fps, Apple ProRes 4444.
The photos are sitting at full opacity on top of an animated background, with a drop shadow applied.
Thanks for your help,
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5 Replies
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Hi jennifer,
Try nesting the sequence and applying the border to the nest.
rafael -
If I did that, it would apply the border to the animated background, which is what is full frame. I want the border to be around the individual jpegs that are smaller than full frame, sitting “on top” of the animated background.
I keep taking the border off, rendering the sequence and then re-adding the border, but it still yields the same result. It seems to react differently to different pictures and I wonder if there is something about the original photo files that would cause the filter to behave that way….
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wait… it seems like the jpegs that this is messing up on has one of the dimensions larger than 2000 and even others as large as 4000. I need to make them smaller. I will re-post if this fixes the border issue.
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FCP cannot handle jpegs larger than 4000×4000. If one dimension is larger than 4000, it can result in odd behavior, including what I was experiencing with the border error.
Not to mention an “Out of Memory” Error due to the high dimensions. No need for photos to be that large.
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Yeap.
Also, being JPEG doesn’t helps.
PNG, TIFF, etc should work better because are uncompressed 8bRGB.
Easier to manage by FC.
rafael
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