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export looks crummy no matter how I export!
it looks great on the timeline, which I achieved by changing the sequence settings but when I export it either using quicktime conversion or just export mov, it comes out crummy looking. On the timeline is a .mov of graphics, so they need to look stellar, and they do on the timeline, which is why I don’t think its the .mov I’m using because if that was the case, wouldn’t it look bad on the timeline too? any ideas?
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What codec and where are you looking at this footage? Quicktime? A video monitor?
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doesn’t matter where I look at it, Quicktime, or in Final Cut, still looks bad, we do have a monitor set up through Kona, haven’t looked at it yet… and as for codec I’ve only tried Quicktime so far…
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[Charles Ferran] “and as for codec I’ve only tried Quicktime so far…”
Sorry, but that doesn’t make sense. There are a lot of codecs that are played back via quicktime. Look at the image through your KOna and a monitor first, then make a judgement.
What codec is your timeline setup to? Hit command-zero and take a look. DV? 8bit? 10bit? ProRes? offline rt?
Jeremy
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its been set to custom, and compression ‘None’ for the longest time now, thats the only way I was able to make it look great on the timeline, doesn’t look too good on the monitor though I see.
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[Charles Ferran] “its been set to custom, and compression ‘None’ for the longest time now, thats the only way I was able to make it look great on the timeline,”
It doesn’t matter what it looks like in your timeline as that’s a low res approximation. You need to look at it on a video monitor. Do oyu have a raid? What frame size is your footage? Can your dirves handle 10bit Uncompressed? I wwould chnage your sequence settings to 10bit UC and see what it looks like on the monitor. What codec were the graphics rendered out? ‘None’ as well?
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Do oyu have a raid? -nope
What frame size is your footage? -720 X 480
Can your dirves handle 10bit Uncompressed? -it would seem so since it shows up on the monitor.
What codec were the graphics rendered out? ‘None’ as well? -yep, None, the creative who built this monster always exports everything at None, uncompressed, he just always assumed that was the best quality. I couldn’t tell you what his sequence settings were, since when I asked him about this he didn’t even know you could change those settings… or does that not even matter? thanks for your help btw 🙂
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[Charles Ferran] “Can your dirves handle 10bit Uncompressed? -it would seem so since it shows up on the monitor. “
That doesn’t mean anything, your drives have to be fast enough to play it back in real time. What kind of drives do you have?
I would create an 8bit UC sequence and then copy and paste your clips into that sequence. Render and see what it looks like. Make sure to choose the 525i29.97 8bit Uncompressed easy setup when doing this.
Jeremy
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wow that looks great, really made it pop, on the monitor I mean, they’re Western Digital IDE drives, we have a Drive Sled setup. Now that I’ve got it looking great, should I try an export? if I add video to this timeline will it still look as good? this is for our companies demo reel and video is swapped out of the middle of the graphics all the time, so I’d like to set this up so any monkey can get in here and still have it look great. If thats possible 😛
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I feel the answer is so close! don’t give up on me now Jeremy! after we’ve come so far together! all my exports still look awful, unless played on the monitor, then they look great, but the final product isn’t going on TV, its going in Power Point presentations getting played on wall sized screens, stumped…
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Perhaps a definition of what you mean by crummy and bad will help get you to a solution.
Are you using Export -> Quicktime Movie, … or Export -> Using Quicktime Conversion?
If you are using the Quicktime conversion option you may need to take a look at your codec and its settings.
What is the duration and dimensions of your clip, and what is the exported file size? From this we may be able to tell if it is heavily compressed through your selected options and that is why your export is looking bad.
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