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graphic is rendering very bad
I made a lower 3rd on photoshop CS3. I made the pixel size pretty large and when I render it and export it in FCP to a .mov file, the graphic is aliased. I have also brought it into after effects and exported as an animation.
Is there anything I can do to get this graphic to look smooth in FCP? my pixel rate to start in CS3 (for the graphic) is 1000 dpi and I am editing in NTSC DV.
G5, 1.7, 4MB RAM, 30″cine, G4, 1.6 2MB RAM, Mbox, Neumann TLM-103, FCP HD 5. Pro Tools, Adobe Creative Suite, Reason 3.0, Macromedia Studio, ProAnimator, HVX200 with Firestore v4.0
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Nelson,
The issue is not your graphic, it’s the 4:1:1 color space of the DV codec.
Go to Sequence >> Settings and change the Quicktime Video Compressor to one of the following codecs with 4:2:2 color space: DV50, ProRes, 8 or 10-bit. Then re-render the timeline and see how much better your graphic looks.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
A forum host of Creative COW’s Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, and Indie Film & Documentary forums.
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Thanks,
Will that affect my overall timeline and give any problems when I send it to compressor>
G5, 1.7, 4MB RAM, 30″cine, G4, 1.6 2MB RAM, Mbox, Neumann TLM-103, FCP HD 5. Pro Tools, Adobe Creative Suite, Reason 3.0, Macromedia Studio, ProAnimator, HVX200 with Firestore v4.0
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[Nelson May] “Will that affect my overall timeline and give any problems when I send it to compressor>”
Of course not!!!
Now come on Nelson, see my picture up there on the top, do you think it would be up there for long if I gave out information that caused problems? I solve problems and leave problem creation to others…
David
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
A forum host of Creative COW’s Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, and Indie Film & Documentary forums.
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[Nelson May] “my pixel rate to start in CS3 (for the graphic) is 1000 dpi and I am editing in NTSC DV.”
Why are you making 1000 dpi graphics when digital video works with 72 dpi (pixels/inch)?
If you are working in DV NTSC you only need 720 x 480 graphics, unless you intend to blow them up in FC or AE.
In Photoshop you have the presets ready when you open a new document. A graphic bigger than the necessary won’t look better. In fact can look much worst.
This added to the comment of David about DV.
rafael
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