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Artifacting on titles in FCP, and sequence settings
Hello All,
I have created an FCP 6.0.5 sequence using still images.
I have followed (more or less) Larry Jordan’s information from
his “Moving On Stills” tutorial on Lynda.com. This is a good tutorial in my view.I have just a few images in this. The images were large jpegs which I converted to tiffs in photoshop. I used tif images in the sequence.
I have found one thing wrong already, the sequence is set for 720×480,
and should be set for 16:9, something like 865×480. So I guess I started from the wrong sequence settings. All the images are dimensioned for 16:9, 853×480.One question comes to mind, is it possible to change the settings of an existing sequence?
I have added moving titles in a couple of places in the sequence. I just used the standard FCP titles, not the BorisFX version that ship with FCP. I notice that when viewing the finished sequence in FCP, the titles have some artifacting. I do have an image with some text in it. I did not create this particular image, and got it as a jpeg without layers (background, text, image, etc). I do move around on this image and the text artifacts severly when viewed on computer, but less so when viewed on television. Any tips on how to minimize the effect? I am exporting to iDVD via a QuickTime Conversion.
The qt export I set for 865×480 as custom size, and the compression was H.264. I do know that iDVD does whatever it needs to when it makes the DVD. I notice that some of my pans and zooms are a little jerky in the playback as well.
Any tips on this process will help. This was a small project. I am working on a larger one with several images and chapters, and image pans, etc
Thanks,
Eric
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3 Replies
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The sequence settings are correct. All DV NTSC is 720×480 regardless of whether it is 4:3 or 16:9. The only difference between the two is the anamorphic flag is checked in the 16:9 sequence.
Not sure where the 865×480 number comes from. It should 853×480.
All the best,
Tom
Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP6,” “Basic Training for FCS2” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop” -
Hello Tom,
Thanks for the reply. Your comment makes sense. I guess my
real issue is that when I create a quicktime movie, and add it to iDVD
it plays as a 4:3 instead of 16:9. I used a 16:9 iDvd menu and template.I use iDVD here since I can create a test DVD easily.
I have used both “export” a quicktime movie (current settings, etc)
and a Quicktime conversion, where I was setting the size in the custom option.iDVD would play the movie from the dvd in 4:3.
I will try the QT conversion and custom sizing and see how that works.My size need to be the values you show (853×480) instead of 865!
Thanks,
Eric
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That’s correct. iDVD does not now nor has ever handled anamorphic material correctly. To go to iMovie you export to QuickTime Movie and then correct the aspect ratio.
https://www.fcpbook.com/Video9.html
All the best,
Tom
Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP6,” “Basic Training for FCS2” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”
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