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getting the best resolution with the DVX and FCP…?
Hi,
first off I know there is probably a post with this somewhere but I looked everywhere and my deadline is approaching fast, so thanks for any help!My question is how can I get the best possible resolution from my project. It is a music video I shot on a DVX in 24p footage. I edited it in FCP ST2 and it looks great on the timeline. When I export it as a quicktime movie using apple pro res HD it looks really good but is stretched in a 16/9 box…(also its in a fcp movie window and not in a quicktime file I can easily send or take somewhere else). When I export it using quicktime conversion, I use quicktime movie at High Broadband and set the size to 720×480 or higher. It looks somewhat decent but still quite grainy and distorted. I see beautiful online shots of the dvx all the time but I can’t even export my footage looking that good let alone post it online.
The footage is shot indoors with a full light system and everything so I don’t see why it shouldn’t look great. Any help or nudge in the right direction would be very appreciated. Thanks in advance!
Cheers.
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Thanks for the reply Dave! In response to your question, no, I don’t think sd dvds look bad but I geuss that is the point. Even when I export it using a 720×480 ntsc quicktime movie it still looks way fuzzier than it looked in the timeline…is that normal? Is everything I am doing what I should be doing? I am not trying to make SD look HD but I am trying to get the best resolution from what I have and the export seems to be degrading the original image more than it should. Please help, thanks.
(I geuss what I am looking for is what people usually do to export high quality 24p footage from a camera like a dvx into a high quality quicktime movie…is it different from what I explained in the first post?)
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Hi Parker,
Have you tried forcing frames on the timeline? Also if you export using QuickTime Conversion it will give you setting options. You can lower the number in the key frame box from 24 to a lower number so the image doesn’t pixelate as much. This will make the file size larger but the images will be more clear.
Good luck,
bjw -
If you’ve got the KONA 3 why not play out upconverted to tape and then ingest the higher-res footage?
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