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clean newspaper clippings
Hi All:
I am need of some assistance from the Cowboys and Girls out there. I have several 40 year old newspaper clippings that were scanned in as Tif files. I opened them in photo shop did some clean up work, and they looked fine. I saved them, and imported them into Final Cut. In final cut I made them a freeze frame and tried some slow movements. Once rendered the words look absolutely horrible. Even in my NTSC monitor. I know there are a lot of small words, but is there any good tricks to clean this up. If not would motion do it any better?Thanks for your help. Long live the cow!
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8 Replies
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How large are the TIFF’s? I like to make them about 900 pixels wide for SD and 2000 wide for HD so the blow-up will be at less than 100% of the actual frame pixel width.
Also check your render settings in FCP.
Motion does a fairly good job of this but I still use After Effects out of habit. I suppose they are equal as far as render quality when identical settings are used.
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First… don’t make freeze frames in FCP… no need to.
If you need to do pans… AE is much better for paning oversized images.
If you have CS2.. run the Interlace Flicker action… if not download it from adobeevangelists.com
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Hey Roy
I am inclined to agree with the other guys — set up the stills animations in After Effects, export as animation codec.
When you bring these files into FCP, apply the Flicker Fixer (Medium) filter, just to smooth it up a little.
Hope this helps, good luck!
Regards
Peter—
raycity* media -
Don’t use freeze frame, you probably just cut the quality in half.
Do use the flicker filter on max.
Scan the images so they aren’t too high res. No higher than you need. FCP does a better job of enlarging than it does scaling down when you have thin lines and small sharp objects like type.Generally 1000×1000 is pretty good for scans that are just going to creep in. If you’re going to go waaay in you’ll have to go higher and maybe utilize photoshop and after effects.
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Hi
I found that FCP struggled with large pictures and I ended up changing the image size in Photoshop to 720×576(PAL) (or the nearest size depending on the shape of the cutting) with a resolution of 72, and saving it out as a pict. This worked well if only a small zoom was needed and rendered much faster. The picture quality was accually better as the printed dot pattern of the newsprint was doing weird things on the higher rez option.
And definately flicker filter med or max.
Cheers
David Scott -
Well first off, make sure the TIFF has field dominance set to “none”. That’s a big deal.
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Roy,
First of all, you probably are not rendering properly therefore making your NTSC preview faulty.
First read this:
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/rendering_rt_fcp_4_balis.html
What should you learn from that article?
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Hi All
I am doing some experimentatio with this, but have another question. When I import from photoshop tiff comes in as a sequence, how can I use this w/out freezing?
Thanks for the help.
Roy
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