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FCP7 Crop
I’m masking out some head switching noise at the bottom of a clip.
I could add a bottom crop to the clip or I could put a thin black bar on the track above.
Is the system smart enough to delete cropped frame data without recompression?
If not, is there really any difference to the quality of the recompressed frame between those two approaches?
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new frames will have to be created either way.
quality will be identical with both approaches.nick
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Sets my mind at rest to know for sure — thanks.
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There is a slight difference, though.
Crop is measured on a scale from 1 to 100, so it might not fall perfectly on a pixel.
A mask can be positioned to the pixel, so can have a sharper edge.Nick
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Yeah, I’d noticed that. I busted out the calculator, zoomed screenshots and divided by 4.86 to get some on-the-pixel crop values.
My new adventure is that I occasionally have to drop 720×480 clips into a mostly 720×486 sequence. The smaller clips seem to get blurred a bit even when the motion tab says they’re not scaled or distorted. Perhaps I’m just misunderstanding an attempt to illustrate the interlacing.
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i don’t work with those frame sizes (i’m in PAL land)
but my understanding is that FCP places them correctly, and crops a few pixels from top & bottom.
(4 from top, 2 from bottom or the other way around)slight blur could be because you haven’t rendered yet?
nick
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