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Graphics quality poor in FCP 7 Editing SD material
I’m working on an SD project with FCP 7. The graphics I created in Motion and imported to FCP 7. The edges of the graphics are quite aliased and generally sloppy looking. My fcp 7 timeline is DV-PAL and the graphics properties are also DV-PAL, 8 Bit Non-Dithered. I tried changing my fcp 7 timeline to render in Precision YUV and that didn’t help. But the graphics (text) quality is extremely poor. I’ve not experienced this before. One more phenomenon is that if I move the graphics text slightly higher or lower on the screen, the aliasing mostly disappears-as if there is a sweet spot on the screen where the text looks best. I really can’t figure what that is or why my text looks a bit fuzzy. Any ideas would be very much appreciated.
Cheers
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6 Replies
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Stop editing in DV codec.
Bring your SD elements and clean Motion generated graphics into a Prores timeline or at least an uncompressed one.
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Hi Mark: Oh yeah? Prores even for SD material? That might just work. Thanks for the tip.
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Steve -
All I can say is try it and see.
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I had a job a couple of years ago when I was still shooting SD – they had demo text that needed to be crystal clear at like 12 or 14 point size –
What I ended up doing was creating a new HD project, and up-rezzing the SD footage into the HD project, so that the graphics and text would stay sharp… the video didn’t take a hit at all really… it was 4:3, so it was cropped on it’s sides, but fine.
may or may not work for you, but this was FCP 7 I was using at the time… actually I think it was 6 then, can’t remember…. but very similar…
Rob Gutermuth
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Thanks Rob, that also sounds like a good approach.
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Steve -
Make sure that when you position a graphic it is on an even line vertically. Also make sure it is a whole number. Check the motion tab and try to keep it on an even line and also repo it slightly so none of the horizontal or vertical co-ordinates are fractions. It’s been like this in FCP since the beginning, but is most apparent on a DV timeline.
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