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High Resolution Stills look very low quality exported
I’ve got two questions regarding photo’s in final cut pro.
1) Why do my high resolution pictures (2048×1536) look grainy and low quality when I view my project as an exported Quick Time Movie, or a DVD movie?
2) What is the best way to give my pictures motion(zoom in, zoom out, pan from one spot to another etc…)? Since my pictures already look poor quality, zooming and making them large seems to me like it will only make them look worse.
The thing that doesn’t make sense to to is that the video resolution is 720×480 and my pictures are much higher at 2048×1536.
Thank you very much for any assistance,
Will Keir
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If you are using a DV sequence, then you are compressing your pictures 5:1. DV is known to be bad for pictures, titles and graphics.
If you work in an 8-bit uncompressed timeline, things will look MUCH better.
TV resolution is 720×486…so that is the best your timeline can get. Unless you go HD and get either 1280×720 or 1920×1280…but then you would lose that as you go to DVD as there are no HD DVDs yet that play back on consumer equipment.
Shane Ross
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Will,
Resolution does not count in video, only pixels. Those photos are actually too big, FCP chokes on those, you must optimize your images in Photoshop. My rule of thumb is 72 dpi at no larger than absolutely necessary to zoom and pan, usually around twice the frame size, so about 1440 x 960. You will get much better results. 8 bit is not a bad idea either.
Have a wonderful day.
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Dave,
Depending on the material in the shot, hi-rez images in FCP can cause a lot of artifacts and flickering. Optimizing the images as I’ve described can help a lot.
You are correct, in video, dpi is meaningless, it’s all pixels.
Have a wonderful day.
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Man, you see this a LOT lately. By “this” – I mean confusion about your exported footage looking lo-res. Hopefully, this advice will help.
1. NEVER judge your rendered graphics by what you see in the Canvas, always judge your graphics on a NTSC or PAL pro video monitor.
2. Always cut with a video monitor attached as you work, not after you burn to DVD.
3. If you plan to judge the quality of your video with a QT Export, you have to know that, upon export, you are looking at a lo-res proxy that the Canvas uses.
[Will Keir] “1) Why do my high resolution pictures (2048×1536) look grainy and low quality when I view my project as an exported Quick Time Movie, or a DVD movie?”
The high quality toggle switch must be enabled in order for you to see the actual rendered quality.
In QT – go to Window>Show Movie Options.
In the dialog, click on the movie
Click on Visual Settings
Check the High Quality check box.You should now see the true quality of your rendered graphics as an outputted QT.
Bottom line, it’s far easier to monitor the high quality if your FCP workstation is set up properly with a NTSC or PAL pro video monitor attached to your rig at all times!
Kevin Monahan
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[Dave LaRonde] “I’d be interested in knowing how the concept of “dpi” — AKA “dots per inch” — applies to video. Isn’t video only concerned with pixels?”
It doesn’t. The resolution of NTSC (or PAL) video is the same regardless of whether you see it on a 13″, 19″, 27″ or 52″ monitor: 720X486 (or 720X576 for PAL). The DPI is essentially meaningless. The only benefit to using a specific DPI in your still graphics software is that it lets you know how big your type will be at a specific point size. IOW, 24point type at 72dpi is going to look larger than 24 point type at 150dpi for the same 720X486 image.
Arnie
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