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Exporting results in scale changes in still images
Hi
I’m trying to export a 4.5 minute video shot in 1080p30 on a Canon 5D Mark II dSLR. It was transcoded to 1080p HDV and was brought into FCP as such. There are various still images that are scaled and motion-animated throughout the piece also.
The client wanted a bunch of deliverables (640×360, 1280×720, 1920×1080 quicktime files and an SD DVD for playback on DVD players)
The exports to 640×360 and 1280×720 (h.264) worked great and have no problems.
However, the exports to mpeg2 and the h.264 at 1920×1080 have bigtime problems with all the still images. They are all super blown up, almost like they reverted to 100% scale or something.
I tried exporting to HDV 1080, but that looked horrible for some reason.
Any thoughts?
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2 Replies
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What happens when you export a self contained file at the sequence settings? (I’m not sure when you say in your last sentence HDV 1080 if that’s what you did or not.)
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Dave – 10 minute ProRes files just got a little too big for me. Would the framerate have anything to do with still image export resolution changing?
Nicole – I did a straight export from the sequence (just file > export) and it looked like absolute garbage, completely blurry and pixelated. Is that what you were getting at.
I know HDV sucks, and maybe that’s at the heart of the problem, but I would really like to know why exporting the sequence at differing resolutions would cause still images to seemingly lose the “motion” properties I’ve applied to them.
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