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Jpeg keeps getting jagged edges
The original jpeg I’m getting is smooth around the edges.
Double clicking the image and looking at it in the viewer, the untouched looks fine.
Laying it down on the time line then monitoring it in the canvas it gets rastery or jagged edges after I reduce the size to fit ntsc standards.
Anybody else face this problem, if so .. solutions would be greatly appreciated.
As of now I’ve asked the person who sent me the picture to send me the original file as a TGA or a PNG file.
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It’s not the still that’s causing the issue Vincent, it’s the compression and/or the interlace that’s at fault. Are you putting the still in a DV timeline? If so, that it the worst. Let me know about that first, then I’ll help you to sort out the whole thing.
David
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.
Yes, it’s a DV project. The person who sent me the picture made a jpeg out of an illustrator image and emailed it to me. I just wrote them back requesting a TGA and a PNG file.
Any insight would be great
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DV is a problem, but the sharp edges of an Illustrator file might also be to blame.
Can you post a copy here using the tools the Cow provides? That would help me to help you.
Also, when you’re done editing, if you change the compressor in Sequence Settings to ProRes or DV50, then re-render, that will help, as DV compression works in 4:0:1 color space, while the other two codecs work in 4:2:2 color space, which has much less interpolation (i.e. pixel color “guesstimation”).
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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I’m gonna have to deal you another ignorance card from my own ignorance 🙂 I don’t know how to post stuff on here. I could upload to photobucket then post the link, but that wouldn’t work because photobucket compresses a file wouldn’t it?
I’m not using the original illustrator file. I asked the guy to convert them all to PNG, TGA, and JPG. He even interlaced the PNG file to see if that would help things and gave it to me in 640 x 480 so I did not have to shrink it down in the project.
The rastery edges are not there in the canvas view, but on the time line view they’re there. Even after I render all on the time line.
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