crappy graphics

[Gabriel Regalbuto]

Not in front of a FCP now, and didn’t have to mess with anything on FCP 5, but seems to me there was a little button on the top left corner of the timeline in 4.5. Click it and “quality” settings would come up.

Its definitely a set-up issue. If things look worse to you than DV normally looks then something is not right.

[Billy Stuart]

We have experienced the same problem in FCP 5. The artifact only showed up when I added a Drop Shadow in the motion tab and I rendered it. I made a new sequence preset and deleted the old one. Problem went away.

Billy

[Walter Biscardi]

[Billy Stuart] “We have experienced the same problem in FCP 5. The artifact only showed up when I added a Drop Shadow in the motion tab and I rendered it. I made a new sequence preset and deleted the old one. Problem went away”

with FCP 5 ensure that you always use “Best Quality” on the video processing tab to get the best graphics and effects quality.

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[Annaël Beauchemin]

Are you redering in high-precision YUV or 10-bits? A bunch of filters (like Mask Feater and I think Drop shadow) are buggy at more than 8-bits.

But otherwise, FCP 4.5 doesn’t do any fancy filtering, so when you scale/position a layer, it’s sometimes ugly. Solution is either to update to v5, or do it in After Effects.

Heavily saturated graphics also look bad with the DV codec. They become pixaleted at the edges after rendering. the RT preview shows you the orginal, so you must render to see how it’ll look like in DV.

A picture of the glitch would probably help us alot to dertermine what is the problem.

[Yednor]

You can view still frame here
https://usera.imagecave.com/irodmedia/
This is what any graphic placed over video looks like
thanks,
Rod

[Annaël Beauchemin]

I was going to say it’s just the normal DV compression, but it looks a bit different. These artifacts are finer and more spread out than what DV normaly does… this is assuming what i’m seeing is not JPEG compression artifacts.

What is your exact system config? (OS version, QT version, video hardware, any third party plugin, etc )

Is the problem present with the text generator or only with your photoshop graphics? Which file format are you using for your graphics?

[Yednor]

The artifacts you see are not from jpeg compression, I don’t have permission to post the clients logo to show the exact problem, but what you see is basically the same. The artifacts aroud the text are the same things I get when any logo/graphic is placed over video, whether it’s made in Potoshop/AE or whatever. The graphcs look fine until plcaed over video. I’m not in front of my system right now, but I know it’s latest OS with all updates, we are not using any video hardware just the built in Firewire, no 3rd party/FCP plugins were used.As far as Quictime goes, I don’t know, is there a diference ?
I also tied rendering with rgb/yuv with no differance.
thanks for your help
Rod

[Annaël Beauchemin]

Try another file format for your stills… i’ve had a gamma shift when using the PNG format, so I now use TIFF instead.

Also delete FCP’s prefs, create a new project and try to add your graphics to a video clip.

At last, you could install a fresh OS 10.3.9 with FCP 4.5 and QT 6.5 to a firewire drive to see if the problem exist. Maybe there’s something in your installation that is screwing FCP’s alpha.