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Jaggies/Interlacing – but a problem
I’m new to FCP and doing some basic graphic work in NTSC using FCP, LiveType and Motion. I can’t seem to get rid of the jagged edges on a circular graphic. I’ve tried placing the graphic directly onto a video channel in FCP, as well as using Motion. Since the logo is primarily lots of curved scallops that form a circle, it would be good to get rid of the jaggies. I’ve also noticed the type I’ve inserted using LiveType is also a bit soft during playback – better when the playback head isn’t moving. Any thoughts would be appreciated. I did a version in 720p and it looked great. So I think I’m doing something basically wrong but don’t know what. This is a simple photoshop item plus some live type with a stock video motion background and some audio.
Dennis Dean
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What are you viewing it on, a video monitor or a computer monitor. Was the text rendered, or need to be rendered?
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Hi Ed, – viewing on a computer monitor, (in Final Cut) with everything rendered, as far as I know. In the interim, I’ve fixed the issue but not sure how. I created a new photoshop version of the logo from the original illustrator file – made certain I adjusted it for square pixels when I resized it – and added an alpha channel. I don’t think the first logo I was using was adjusted for square pixels nor did it have an alpha channel. I also created that file in significantly higher resolution, (600 dpi rather than 300 dpi which I usually use). The LiveType also became sharper – tho I didn’t touch that. I’m going to create another version and try some movement on the logo – and see how that works. Does anything in particular that I’ve described sound like the reason for the problem?
thanksDennis Dean
The Dean Group
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You’re working in NTSC? Then they’re rectangular pixels. Photoshop has a preset for NTSC so you can work in square pixel PS world and it adjusts for NTSC non-square pixels for you. You used to have to manually create stretched images to have a perfectly round circle on your video, but not anymore. DPI doesn’t mean anything in video, it’s the pixels that count. If you’re looking at NTSC video on a computer monitor, you’re seeing interlacing. You need to view on an interlaced video monitor. Having said that, if it looks good now, don’t mess with it. 🙂
Ed[Dennis Dean] “Hi Ed, – viewing on a computer monitor, (in Final Cut) with everything rendered, as far as I know. In the interim, I’ve fixed the issue but not sure how. I created a new photoshop version of the logo from the original illustrator file – made certain I adjusted it for square pixels when I resized it – and added an alpha channel. I don’t think the first logo I was using was adjusted for square pixels nor did it have an alpha channel. I also created that file in significantly higher resolution, (600 dpi rather than 300 dpi which I usually use). The LiveType also became sharper – tho I didn’t touch that. I’m going to create another version and try some movement on the logo – and see how that works. Does anything in particular that I’ve described sound like the reason for the problem?
thanks”
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