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  • Jumpy photo while scaling

    Posted by Rap on February 26, 2007 at 5:25 pm

    hey guys I’m really sorry if I ask too much but things are really going strange and I don’t have an idea why
    one of the sequences that I am working on has lots of still images, and all these images are in motion , meaning scale from 100 to 110 and bit to the side, just to make it more interesting. now for the first tome I saw that these photos go up and down while scaling (zooming in) first thing I did is to look if they need rendering, they don’t ,I reedited one of the photos and redid the scaling … still had the problem
    I threw FCP preferences files and lunched it again. nothig changed, now I dont know what to do

    best regards

    Rap replied 19 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Rob Forsythe

    February 27, 2007 at 4:12 am

    You should ALWAYS render ANY effects before output to get the best quality.

    You must only judge QUALITY on an external VIDEO MONITOR, not on the computer monitor.

    If the graphics have too much “resolution” andd cause “dancing pixels” you can add a bit of vertical blur (or even Gaussian blur) to soften the sharpness.

    VERY IMPORTANT:

    If you re-position graphics or any video image in FCP, make SURE the VERTICAL setting for each KEY-FRAME (start, stop or hold) is always a EVEN INTEGER (Even Whole Number). Examples: 4, not 3 / -144, not -143.27 / 336, not 335.62 / 12 not 11.

    The positioning settings/info (as well as many other settings) are found under the “Motion” tab in the Viewer.
    Vertical position is the number in the RIGHT window in the area called “Center” (the horizontal position is displayed in the LEFT window).

    I sometimes forget to check this and I can end up with images that look fuzzy when in-position.

    This info applies to re-positioning anything on the Timeline: moving video, freeze-frames, internally-generated titles, and imported graphics.

    It can be quite detrimental to the quality of your final output to not double-check this every time you reposition and/or re-size an image.

  • Rap

    February 27, 2007 at 9:40 am

    thanks for your reply

    everything is rendered
    I went back to my old sequence and I don’t hhave this problem there
    I copied the photos and paste them to my new sequence and I still have it
    I have no idea what to do
    Please help me
    I made sure that the values are even, I changed them, I checked my settings…. nothing is happining

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