Aliasing Problems

Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

Aliasing Problems

Posted by Jeff Cochran on May 12, 2006 at 4:23 pm

Hi all,

I’m having some serious problems with aliasing when I render my timeline to Quicktime.

I have a 2 and half minute sequence with DV footage, animations from After Effects and Pict files from Photoshop. I’ve rendered the Animations as quicktime movies using the animation codec with no compression. The picts are inserted at 100% with an alpha channel over DV footage.

I’m rendering my timeline in 8-bit uncompress NTSC. All graphics are showing aliasing.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

Jeff Cochran replied 19 years, 12 months ago 3 Members · 5 Replies
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Michael Mcintyre
May 12, 2006 at 6:47 pm

I had a similar problem and it revolved around reviewing the ‘aliased’ graphics on the computer monitor versus a standard broadcast monitor. Things viewed / QC’ed on a computer monitor play much differently on real TV. I’m no engineer (obviously) but try reviewing the elements in question on a real monitor. If you’ve done this, maybe there are some other issues I’m not aware of.

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Kevin Monahan
May 12, 2006 at 7:09 pm

Check the high quality flag in QT’s Window>Show Movie Properties dialog.

A common oversight that freaks out many of the unknowing.

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Jeff Cochran
May 13, 2006 at 2:53 am

Thanks for the response, Kevin

I’m having difficulty finding the “Show Movie Properties dialog”.

Could you give me detailed map to it’s location?

Thanks for the help
Kevin Monahan
May 14, 2006 at 10:31 pm

Window>Show Movie Properties
click on the video tab
click on the check box which says High Quality.

Hope that helps you. These directions should be
widely known, but they are not and end up confusing
a lot of people.

Directions to the high quality button should be a giant
sticker on the install software me thinks. 😉

Kevin Monahan
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Jeff Cochran
May 15, 2006 at 6:09 am

Thanks again Kevin, I’m still having problems finding this. I have FCP Version 5.0.4.

Under the window menu I don’t have a “Show Movie Properties” I’ve been searching thru my manuals and nothing is indicating a “Movie Properties” Is it possible I have an earlier version that dosen’t have this feature, or am I looking totally in the wrong place: “Window pull down menu”

Thanks again for the help

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