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FCP rendering engine – messing up reds
I have a project using a client’s red type on light blue logo where FCP’s rendering engine is pixelating the red letterforms – this project that will only be displayed on computer monitors. If I export my sequence out having rendered in FCP first – the images is pixelated where the red borders the blue. If I export out the sequence without rendering – it exports perfectly.
Thoughts?
Thanks,
Tim McCandless
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3 Replies
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codec?
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Tim,
Its pretty clear that you’ve imported the client’s graphic into a DV project. Are you aware that this means 1) your uncompressed graphic file is getting compressed at 5 to 1 — and 2) at the same time its moved into 4:1:1 color space where much of the chroma information is being chucked out and then interpolated (i.e essentially recreated by information from the remaining neighboring pixels)?
You will need to move the project to an 8 or 10 bit timeline to preserve the quality of you graphics. Its done all time.
DRW
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David Roth Weiss answer is pretty much right, but I just felt like adding a bit more. Some times with graphical logos you might need to switch to the rgb color components.
Also you said that the image is pixelated were the blue meets the red. This is a very common thing, these two colors can be very buggy together when used in a graphical image, you might want to change the field dominance to none and/or use the anti aliasing effect.
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