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Blurry photos
Hello, I’m putting together my first project on FCP. It’s all stills with interviews and music. We have a problem with the images looking slightly blurry. The only way we are able to make it look sharp is by exporting it to a quicktime movie at uncompressed 10-bit. But this leaves us with a 40 gig. file. If you know the best way to compress this file or a better way to export it so the photos aren’t soft, please let me know. thanks, ivan
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Where are you trying to get to? Will the material be seen on a television set or on the web? If it’s going to web you’re limited by what you can put on the web as delivered video. Flash might be more suitable for what you want to do.
All the best,
Tom
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 2 Editing Workshop” Class on Demand “Complete Training for FCP5” DVD
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What resolution are your pics? Are you rendering your pics before previewing them?
e.
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Thanks for your help,
The photos are at 300 Dpi. When we export to tape, the images are sharp on the tv screen. When we export to Quicktime and burn a DVD the images are soft. Do you know the best way to export to quicktime and burn it to a DVD and still have sharp images (maybe the settings are off, but it seems like we’ve tried everyting). thanks for your time, Ivan K -
When you export a QT, are you leaving the “Make Movie Self Contained” button unchecked?
Do a check on your video monitor from your intermediate QT. This will help you establish if the softness is being introduced by your QT export, or by the DVD encoding.
Also, what are your encoder settings for the DVD? You will get some loss going to DVD, that’s unavoidable. If your project is short (under 1hr) pump the encoder right up to 8Mbps – if your images are still soft, then there’s something else amiss…
e.
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to Ivankphoto,
this usually happens and it used to get a big deal from my part, bu if you have QT7 pro you can adjust how the video looks on screen, it usually is softened for some default reason, just do the following:
in QT7 go to show movie properties (command + J) in there choose the video track and go to visual settings, in there go to the lower right corner and select “high quality”…. as soon as you do this the QT screen with your movie looks its best, and you can sve it with that option so when you choose to see that movie the high quiality setting woulb be selected…hope that helps…
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Daniel!! Thank you so much for posting your advice 6 years ago on here. Because I just found it and it answered my issues! And saved the day for me! Thanks again.
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