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HELP Importing JPEG Photo (resolution issues when added to the timeline)
Hi,
I am trying to add still’s to my timeline. (I’ve already changed my sequence to DVCPRO50 NTSC) However, when I pull the photo’s into the timeline they become very low resolution. Yet in the browser they are very clear and sharp. I have regular dv footage preceeding it but I need to get these photo’s in and they need to look good.
Any thoughts?
Drew
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4 Replies
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Have you rendered the timeline?
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This is a common misperception of how video works; DPI is meaningless in video, there are only pixels. Your photo is likely to be quite large, pixel-wise, say, 1000 or more pixels in both directions. Your DV timeline has a far smaller number of pixels, about 800×500. Your still image is being scaled down to fit the timeline and FCP’s reduction algorithm has always totally sucked. You can disable or override the scaling in the Motion Tab for the selected still image. You may get better resutls for yoru images if you scale them to appropriate video dimensions using Photoshop or even iPhoto.
It looks good in the Browser’s Viewer pane because that’s upstream of the timeline. Your Canvas displays your image after it has been processed to fit the timeline’s settings.
bogiesan
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Ok so this is what I did and it seems to work fine. I imported the clips as is and left my compression as DV NTSC. I then waited till I finished my timeline and switched it to Pro Res 422 (HQ) and rendered. This changed everything for the better.
Thanks for the help,
Best
Drew
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Okay. Now you rendered to ProRes…everything looks great. What are you mastering to?
If it\’s DV tape, you are going to be unhappy again….that DV compression hit will rear it\’s ugly head once more.
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