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HDV and Digital Cinema View.
My project is in HDV108050i and when I playback & view my timeline fullscreen using the Digital Cinema View (View>All Frames) the image quality is not very good. There is tracing and my rendered Motion titles and text on map graphics looks very poor. Playback is set to >Dynamic but surely that wouldn’t affect the whole sequence? Hardware wise I’m looking at a 23″ HD Cinematic Display, on a Xeon Mac Pro 1Gb Ram, external Lacie HD. I’m fairly new to FCP, but assuming that I can view my timeline in reasonably high quality on the Mac cinematic display. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance, Alex.
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Ya need a Matrox MXO… It will fix you right up here.. has to work with a 23″ CD if you have that, you’re good to go with it.
Problem you’re having now is that you’re displaying interlaced footage on a progressive scan monitor… not only would the MXO fix that problem, but it will also allow you to do some color correction using the 23″ Cinema Display. It even has a blue only setup with proc amp controls to set up your CD to be telling you exactly what you’re working with. Pretty cool indeed!
Jerry
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When you render your preview, do you use the drop down menu “render all”, or just push apple+r. I’ve noticed that FCP only gives you a full res preview render if you choose “render all” from the dropdown menu, even though technically apple+r should do the same thing. How does it look when you render out a Quicktime file?
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Apple+R by the way is for Preview purposes…enough rendering just to preview an effect or a few clips before exporting…takes time to Render all funcion. Plus you can change the render settings of Apple+R. What Jerry was talking about works great.
The only thing that was going through my mind when reading this was whether your sequence was set to NTSC or PAL – HD. Because I noticed you said you were working in 1080 PAL (50i).
I would check that. Because I’ve noticed my FCP defaults to the settings of my last project. And I work alot between PAL and NTSC; Both in HD and in SD formats.-Raymond-
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[IndieSoon] “When you render your preview, do you use the drop down menu “render all”, or just push apple+r. I’ve noticed that FCP only gives you a full res preview render if you choose “render all” from the dropdown menu, even though technically apple+r should do the same thing. How does it look when you render out a Quicktime file?”
I’ve used render selection from the drop down menu as I rendered portions individually and they all have a blue bar showing that they’re fully rendered. I will try doing render all as well and see what happens. Thanks, Alex.
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Thanks Raymond and Jerry. My project is definitely in PAL by the way. The Matrox MXO looks like a great solution. We’re hiring a broadcast monitor for the final finishing and polishing on this occasion. Thanks, Alex.
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