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FCP5 image frustration
I’ve got some large TIFFs and JPEGS (2000px wide) which I want to use in my PAL presentation. Rather than cropping them in Photoshop, I want to import them full-sized and zoom in on details using Scale in the Motion tab.
However, it appears that FCP is downsizing the whole image to 720px wide, then blowing it up again, leading to atrocious image quality.
I did an experiment with 48px text in a 4000x3000px jpeg, and in a 720x576px one. I couldn’t get the large image on the timeline as 1:1 – FC always shrunk it down, and treated Scale 100 as a request to blow up the image, turning my crisp text into blurry blobs.
Has anyone had any success with this, or does Final Cut insist on resizing all imported images? -
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I just tested this out in Final Cut 5.1.4 and you should be getting your original image quality. I did exactly what you’re talking about for a project last week and it worked fine!
I hope someone else can post with some more info – I just wanted to let you know that it’s not normal.
Good luck!
Jess -
i have the exact same problem in FCP 6. anyone that can help?
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I think I was relying on FC pro’s “canvas” window… I’ve just done another experiment: did a 768×578 jpeg, saved, then enlarged the canvas in photoshop and resaved. I put them both in FCPro (v 5), sure enough, the big one looked awful. BUT when I exported the movie, they both looked the same as each other.
Hope that helps
– Paddy
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