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graphics and titles look jagged and blurry
using FCP HD and viewing on an ntsc monitor. My text and photos look terrible, especially text coming in from photoshop. I’m using easy DV set up, with field order set to lower. When I change the field dominace to NONE all the graphics and photos look so much better. I’ve tried many things including making sure that the position of the graphics is on an even integer. Nothing helps.
I’d leave the sequence on NONE since most of the interlaced video seems unaffected, except for some helicopter shots that look a mess now.
I’ve tried effects to alter the field order. Doesn’t help. Flicker filter helps a little, but its blurry, not so crisp. Any way to get that crisp look for graphics in a lower field sequence?? Is there any danger of producing the piece in a no field sequence, it’ll be used mainly for DVD.any insight would be great
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Scott,
Field order is not the issue, its rendering in the DV codec that’s your problem.
Just for your own edification, open a new sequence and before putting anything into that sequence change the sequence settings to 8-bit uncompressed. Now, copy the same graphics and underlying video (if any) to that timeline and render. Do you see a difference???
DRW
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First, DV
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In the RT Pop Up, change from Unlimited RT to Safe RT. Also High Quality must be checked. Render with the dark green “FULL” bar checked in the Sequence > Render Menus. Make sure that you haven’t dragged a wireframe to an odd line, all graphics must reside on whole, even numbers.
With FCP and graphics, you have to be very careful with graphic placement and how you monitor. Now you know.
Kevin Monahan
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thanks, but the sequence is already in the 8 bit YUV setting. Don’t see any choice for “uncompressed”.
Still looks great when the sequence is in NONE for field order. Not sure why it can’t hold that look in a normal DV sequence. Do I have to go into after effects to work out the issue I wonder?scott
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no extra video card, just out firewire througha deck and to my monitor.
I have rendered it mny times, many tests, many different sequence sttings. Canvas size is not the problem, looks jagged and not crisp on my monitor.
Still only looks great when the sequence is in NONE for field order. Not sure why it can’t hold that look in a normal DV sequence. Do I have to go into after effects to work out the issue I wonder?scott
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Thanks,
I did try all those things before, and its fully rendered.
Just very strange that only when I change the filed order to none does it solve the problem. Photoshop titles are not jagged and the photos are crisp. Mystifying.
Any other ideas? Do i have to run it through AE to make the graphics look good?scott
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