fuzzy titles after render

[Dominic]

Could be just your monitor. Try recording to tape and viewing the tape on a TV. Or burn to DVD and then view on the computer and the TV separately.

Cutting on a 2.5GHz G5 8Gb RAM, 30in Studio display. Shooting on an HVR-Z1. Losing my mind in London.

[Mark Maness]

Are you adjusting the location of the title on the timeline? If so, you may just need to move it a pixel or two to fix the problem. Secondly, you need to check to see what your settings are in LiveType and do they match your timeline in FCP. LiveType defaults to 601 NTSC. If you are editing in DV, then you’ll need to change the settings to NTSC DV in LiveType under Project Properties.

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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions

[Ryan Cornish]

I am using the title generator in FCP. I did print to tape and it comes out the same on to tape. I will have to try making them in Live type and go from there. Thank you both for your help.

[Mark Maness]

Well, if that’s the case. Just move it up or down a pixel or two. This will solve that problem. Always stay on a whole number, preferably an even number.

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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions

[Gunner Jones]

[Dominic] “Try recording to tape and viewing the tape on a TV. “
Dom,
Your workflow is all wrong. You should be viewing your timeline AS YOU CUT, not afterward. See page 55 of the manual. If you have your video monitor connected while you are working, you’ll get no surprises on output. You’ll save on DVD “coasters” as well as a whole lot of time if you simply set up your system to spec.

Most self-taught FCP’ers do not have their system setup to spec.

O&O-Gunner Productions
FCP-Avid-After Effects

[Gunner Jones]

Welcome to the wonderful world of FCP rendering. We see this problem most every day because you have to know quite a lot about between the differences between how FCP uses RT Extreme for RT previewing and how you should prepare renders going out to tape or DVD.

So far, you’ve got good suggestions, allow me to add a few:

[Dominic]

Point taken Gunner, and I do view my timeline as I cut. But sometimes stuff looks fuzzy on my Mac monitor but then on printing to tape and to disc it is fine as can be. And you’re right about self-taught FCP users!!!

Cutting on a 2.5GHz G5 8Gb RAM, 30in Studio display. Shooting on an HVR-Z1. Losing my mind in London.

[Gunner Jones]

[Dominic] “Point taken Gunner, and I do view my timeline as I cut. But sometimes stuff looks fuzzy on my Mac monitor but then on printing to tape and to disc it is fine as can be. And you’re right about self-taught FCP users!!!Cutting on a 2.5GHz G5 8Gb RAM, 30in Studio display. Shooting on an HVR-Z1. Losing my mind in London.
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Hey Dom,
Hope you don’t think I was comin’ down on you personally good brother. It’s just that so many people just slam their systems together that they don’t even think they could be set up wrong. It comes from the “plug-and-play”, download it now mentality. I come from the old school where system setup and other important tech issues were severely banged into my head. I wish all editors could take 6 months off and go to digital video trade school like I did. Although it was in Avid, everything crosses over to FCP.

You are actually exempt from cutting with a video monitor because you’re working with HDV. The only way you can monitor that stuff at full frame IS on one o’ those mighty fine computer monitors you have.

If you are having issues with softness, see my post below and follow all those steps to avoid the “fuzzy” look. Still, you probably won’t see the true quality of your stuff on the computer monitor unless you do the following: