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overlays look degraded with FCP motion filter
Hello
I have a tiff file that looks fine overlayed on my video track until I try to fly it in or out with the motion filter. As soon as I add motion to the still
it degrades the image. It looks like it’s displaying one field even though the file is not moving except for flying it in and out for 17 frames at the begining and end of the clip. I figured out a work-around by making the overlay 3 different clips. The first clip flys it in and as soon as it comes to rest I cut the clip. The middle clip has the motion removed and on the third clip I apply motion again to move it out. There has got to be a better way to do this. Someone please tell me what it is. I have a 3 year old matrox system that can handle simple overlays flying in and out. I thought this was supposed to be the MacDaddy of all editing systems.Jack
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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.
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Rob,
I have an overlay that I brought in from left to right with the vertical position at 0. I have it perfectly still for 5 seconds until the last 20 frames where it is then moved back out of frame with the vertical still at 0. I can use the opacity filter without it changing anything, but as soon I apply the positioning filter it looks like it has a field problem all the way through the clip, even though the keyframes are at the ends of the clip. Do you have any other ideas for a solution? Could this be a bug with 5.0. I don’t remeber having this problem with 4.5, or maybe I just never noticed it before.
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Make sure you are in Safe RT, have rendered at Full Quality and judge only what you see on the video monitor, not the Canvas in the Computer monitor.
Kevin Monahan
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro
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I am in Safe RT, and I rendered at full quality, and I’m looking at my video monitor not the canvas in the computer monitor. As soon as I make a change with the horizontal or vertical positioning filter, the overlay immediatley changes to a slightly blurry look as if it’s showing just one field. Even with leaving the vertical position at zero and just changing the horizontal.
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What are the pixel dimensions of your stills?
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The pixel size is 720×480.
Jack
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