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BLOCKY TEXT IN FCP 5
Hy folks,
First of all I know this is a popular topic, I have searched the posts on both forums but still haven’t found what I was looking for (I am already sounding a little bit like Bono, he, he). Anyway here’s the situation.
I have finished editing of my movie in hdv format and so far I’ve been using the text tool just to place all the stuff correctly in its place. Of course now I want to polish my product and have nice smooth opening and closing credits (text) but I am getting edgy, blocky edges of my text no matter what I do. I have tried several options:
1. Live type (using all kinds of combinations of blurs and similar, setting my canvas size for hd work). In Live Type it looks cool but when I import the stuff to FCP5 it gets the blocks.
2. Made all variations of jpeg, tiff, tga, image in Photoshop used smooth, anti-aliasing, rasterize and doubled the size of the image to suit the need for hd work in fcp. In Photoshop it looks like a charm. When I import the image in FCP and place it in 8-bit uncompressed sequence, hd, 1440X1080, if it is in still frame it looks nice, but as soon as I push play it becomes blocky on the edges, not too much but just enough to not be good enough. I went to the settings, set up to best for video rendering options but it doesn’t really help. I have also tried importing it to my hdv sequenence, and looks really bad.
3. Tried to solve the problem going through AE. Not really sure how to get the proper look in AE, used Text tool and text tool palette, but not found neither smoother, neither anti-aliasing. Adding blur and unsharpening helps only to a certain degree but not enough.
Anyone, any suggestions what should I do. How to get the text, graphic thing smooth and nice in fcp for an hdv project? And when I get one nice, do I have to convert all my hdv project to uncompressed 8-bit hd (mind you I have a 72 minutes long documentary), which would mean sth around 600gb in disk space or even more. Would copy pasting and droping the entire sequence from hdv to uncompressed 8-bit 1440X1080 do the trick? Or would it maybe more wise to go with with AICC codec?
I know this is problem for many users including myselg. Any help is more than welcome.
Drazen
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2 Replies
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I want to know this as well, the only way I fixed it was to change the setting to fields NONE, but this makes the DV videos unrendered. Does anyone have any ideas of how to keep text intact in FCP5 or when I bring in jpeg files.
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Things are looking great with HDV on a HD Monitor, but it sounds like you don’t have one eh? Well, that’s the only way to see your true quality.
Read this: https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=24787
WIth HDV, you’ll need a video capture card to see the image on a video monitor. If you read the article, you can also enable the high quality preview right in QuickTime.
Many of us know that the Canvas is “fooling you” right now. It is only displaying about 1/4 of it’s true res. Anytime you have render files you’ll be confused without a full FCP System. If you are not operating FCP with a video monitor and speakers being fed by a video deck, then you are working on an incomplete system. With an incomplete system, there’s bound to be confusion.
Pony up some bucks for a card and a monitor and all will be well.
IOW, you are worrying about a problem that does not exist, you are merely being duped by what you see in the Canvas. Which is NOT reality. This really has been a problem for new folks since FCP 1, so this is nothing new.
Hope that sinks in well. 😉
Kevin Monahan
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