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Is final cut softening the image?
I captured footage through FCP, and was worried when I looked at the QT file. It didnt look sharp. Fortunately, I had to do a few tests within Shake, and Shake’s exports were a clean, nice looking QT file, even though the input was the somewhat blurry file that Final Cut captured.
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Shane’s Stock Answer #2: Blurry playback
ONLY JUDGE THE QUALITY OF YOUR MATERIAL ON AN EXTERNAL NTSC MONITOR, OR AT LEAST A TV.
1. Disable overlays on the canvas
2. Make sure you’ve rendered everything (no green bars at the top of the timelinehttps://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=24787
Video playback requires large amounts of data and many computations. In order to maintain frame rate and be viewable at a normal size, only about one-fourth of the DV data is used in displaying the movie to the screen. However, the DV footage is still at full quality, and is best viewed thru a TV or NTSC monitor routed thru your camera or deck.
Shane
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Shane,
your stock answers (as your blog) are absolutely top-notch. However, notice that I was speaking about a quicktime file. And that matters a lot to me, because this will go on to a website, and only a website. Therefore, the quality of the quicktime file needs to be the best possible. So rendering and overlays are not the problem, since Im talking about the quicktime file output… -
What resolution did you capture your video in?
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Hi,
I captured through firewire with the easy setup for PAL DV, and didnt change anything to it. -
You probably do not have high quality playback turned on in quicktime. the link that Shane sent out to your tells you how to turn on high quality playback. For your convenience I will copy/paste it for you:
“Computer Display Solution: The QuickTime Pro-enabled QuickTime Player can be used to display a DV movie at High Quality. To do this, open the movie with QuickTime Player, and select Get Movie Properties from the Movie menu. In the Movie Info window, select Video Track in the left popup menu, and select High Quality in the right popup menu. Check the High Quality Enabled checkbox to view the movie at full quality.
Frame rate will decrease substantially with this setting. The movie can be saved with this setting and from then on, when the Movie is played back in any application, it will be played at High Quality.”
Jeremy
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such a beginner’s mistake…
I thought i had read somewhere that quicktime 7 turned high quality on by default, but didnt bother to check if it was the case.
Well then, my question is: how can you have fcp output quicktimes that have high quality turned on by default?
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Such a beginner’s mistake… Thanks for your answer. You were right…
I thought i had read somewhere that quicktime 7 turned high quality on by default, but didnt bother to check if it was the case.
Well then, my question is: how can you have fcp output quicktimes that have high quality turned on by default?
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oops. double posted. How do I delete the extra post? Thanks!
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[Paris_ntz] “double posted. How do I delete the extra post?”
Wouldn’t we ALL like to know that?!?!
This BB does not allow editing.
Shame.
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[Matte] “This BB does not allow editing.
Shame.”
Not really, it keeps you honest.
NTZ: FCP does output high quality quicktime movies. It’s when watching the movie in quicktime that you won’t see it, but it’s there. Someone used to have a script to turn on high quality but I don’t know where it is. You should try googling it.
Jeremy
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