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Image soft upon rendering
I am finishing up a project in Final Cut Pro 4.5 and am having issues once I render. The entire project is comprised of Photoshop files- images and text that move and transition from scene to scene (it’s a cheesy corporate video). Anyways, everything looks great on my computer and external monitor until I render- then the entire project- images, backgrounds, text, everything- looks soft. I normally work in Avid but I am doing this project on my own at home and am therefore using Final Cut.
I have worked with images several times so I know how to prep for video. I have never had this issue with Avid and was just wondering if there is anything I can do to fix this. I have searched through the internet and have seen that others have this problem with 4.5. I have put all of the text onto an even position and have viewed it on an external monitor, dvd on a separate tv, quicktime, etc. Any thoughts?
Thanks in advance,
Lori -
4 Replies
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And I’d be willing to bet you’re working on a DV timeline, right?
Go to Sequence>>Settings and change the Compressor to DV50 and re-render the entire timeline.
What you are seeing is the effect of DV compression. DV works in 4:0:1 or 4:1:1 color space (depending who you’re speaking with), while DV50 works in 4:2:2 color space.
The lower color space of DV compression means that there is vastly more interpolation (or “guesstimation”) of nearby pixel colors, because vastly more pixels are discarded during compression.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
A forum host of Creative COW’s Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, Indie Film & Documentary, and Film History & Appreciations forums.
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Thanks so much, David. That is something I have not tried so I really appreciate the new suggestion. I tried it and it still looks wonky- a little bit better but still fuzzy. Should I change anything else like Aspect Ration, Pixel Aspect Ratio, Field Dominance, etc? I feel like it’s something I am doing (or not doing) but I just don’t know what?
Thanks so much,
Lori -
How are you monitoring? Just the canvas in FCP? If so, that will almost always look wonky. At the very least, set the canvas display size to 100%, no more, no less.
Also, if any of your stills are not at even numbers on the Y-axis in Motion Tab they will look soft.
And finally, look in the Sequence>>Render All dropdown menu and make certain that “Full” is checked, then re-render the timeline. It is not checked by default from the factory.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
A forum host of Creative COW’s Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, Indie Film & Documentary, and Film History & Appreciations forums.
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Of course, rendering to DV 50, Uncompressed or ProRes will not help you if you are mastering to DV, DVCAM or DVCPRO. Everything will get hit with DV compression when it gets recorded to tape.
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