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freezing an image and zooming ugly result
freezing an image and zooming in with fast cuts is not possible with dv cam format? i have tried to do it but the resolution gets so ugly. one of my editor friends has done it and i do not undersatnd why i cant do it since he also shot his video in dv cam. i have tried in this manner. i press apple j for the speed to zero for the image that i want to freeze and then i increase the size within the animation window. In fact i dont increase it too much about 140 percent in order to focus on the desired spot, but i do not get what i want. this effect is often seen and i do not comprehend why i cannot get what i want. can someone tip me on this or is it just impossible?
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[nicolas] “this effect is often seen and i do not comprehend why i cannot get what i want.”
Where and under what conditions do you see this done?
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well actually, all i want is to freeze the image and then do a zoom in. yet when you open the scene within the editor window and that you increse the size from a 100 percent to 130 percent the result is nasty.
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Of course! DV is designed to fit the 720×480 frame size exactly. Zooming in will always cause you to lose resolution of the image. About the best you can do is export your still to Photoshop and try and sharpen it up there.
-mark
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You might want to try creating a freeze frame instead of changing the speed to 0. Changing the speed to zero will still leave the program trying to frame blend the motion between the two frames. Also, if your image has motion, the above would be particularly ugly. Even if you created the freeze correctly. It would require deinterlacing, which essentially halfs your resolution or at a minimum softens the image considerably.
Try creating a freeze frame with the make freeze frame command. You won’t have to render either.
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Also, check the result on the video monitor not the computer monitor. Try not to scale up beyond 120%. Anything over 100% will, of course, be degraded. If you don’t want degradation, shoot the original in HD and import the frame into a DV or SD sequence.
Kevin Monahan
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro
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You could try to do it in After Effects.
In my opinion AE has a much better scaling algorithm than FCP.
Keep an eye on the fields though and always check in a video monitor./Erik
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