Importing photos and lower thirds

[Kai Cheong]

Hi Kathleen,

There could be many reasons why your images are still fuzzy – and most of them would not be due to the .tif format, since that’s a good format for bringing stills in [as long as the photos themselves are sharp, are at least screen size if you want them full-screen and not expanded more than 120%].

A few things you might want to check:

1) Is your sequence in offline RT? If yes, your stills would be rendered at lo-res together with the rest of the sequence.

2) Under Sequence > Render, is the light green ‘Preview’ ticked? If not, whenever you hit Apple + R, any areas with the light green bar [often occurs with stills] would not render. As far as I recall, the green ‘Preview’ is not ticked on default.

3) On the top left of your sequence, what’s your Playback Video Quality? If it’s medium or low, things would look fuzzy.

You could easily move the lower third down to where you want it by going to the Viewer > Motion tab > and changing the ‘Y’ value of ‘Center’.

Not sure how it works with Illustrator, but if you bring in a .tif from Photoshop and leave the transparency embedded, the transparency would act as an alpha when the .tif is brought into FCP.

Hope it helps some.

Kai
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[Kathleen Dylan]

I double checked all of these things. Still having the same issues. Sometimes after I render, the bar changes from green to a grayish blue but is still blurry..