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editing snapz pro X capture in FCP
Hi, I’ve captured a half hour meeting that happened live on the web. I used Snapz Pro X and the frame size was 320 x 240. The client wants a DVD of the webcast and my thought was that I could simply convert the captured file (animation codec) in Compressor. Only that Compressor doubled the size of the captured media to 640 x 480, making it pretty blurry. So, I thought I should bring the file into FCP and add it on top of a black solid layer. Then export a reference movie and then take it to Compressor.
Is that the best way to convert a captured 320 x 240 clip to DVD and retain the size of the footage? Or can I add a 320 x 240 pixel video clip to DVDSP and have it keep its size?
Thanks,
Steve
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[steve goldberg] “I thought I should bring the file into FCP and add it on top of a black solid layer. Then export a reference movie and then take it to Compressor.”
That’s gonna be the only way to keep it at its native size once it goes to a DVD. All other methods will cause it be scaled up to 640×480 as you’ve already seen.
David Roth Weiss
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Don’t use Animation with Snapz Pro. FCP always reads the frame rate as 10fps and the interframe Animation codec will cause image smearing on movement when it’s interpolated up to 24fps or 25fps or 29.97fps. I usually use PhotoJPEG with good results.
All the best,
Tom
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Thanks David for confirming my suspicions. I’m probably going to end up videotaping the computer screen directly into FCP due to time constraints, so that I don’t have to wait a long time for rendering….
Steve
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