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Photos Acting Strange
Hi,
I’m using a bunch of very large photos in FCP. Each photo is 72 dpi and about 2500×1200 or larger, taken with a high end digital camera. When I import them, I notice that they aren’t quite right. It’s difficult to explain, but there is definitely some kind of distortion, similar to when you pause the playhead on a clip that is interlaced. I’ve tried de-interlacing the photos in FCP, but that doesn’t do the trick. A slight Gaussian blur gets rid of the problem, but it sacrifices the photo quality. Has anyone else encountered this? Is there a filter in FCP or Photoshop that can fix this?
I hope this makes sense. Thanks.
John
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4 Replies
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First questions have to be:
1. Where are you VIEWING the images for quality-check.
2. Have you RENDERED them?
3. Do you NEED them to be that large? (Are you zooming far INTO the shots?)
If not, I’d reduce them to about half that size or smaller for FCP use (they’ll render faster with no visual loss in quality.) -
Hi Thax,
I’m seeing the distortion in my external TV monitor and it occurs whether the photos are rendered or if I simply park the playhead on an unrendered image. Also, I’d like to keep them at the same size, but I’m not sure if making them smaller would make a difference b/c they have the same issues when scaled to any size, larger or smaller.
Thanks,
John
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Take one of your more complex images and make a COPY of it in Photoshop.
Drop its size by 50% to 75% (“Save as” a new name).Take that smaller image into FCP. It should look a bit better.
AND…
ANY image (even one at 750 x 480) can contain “too much detail” for standard video.
Just add the Gaussian Blur filter (under “Blur”) in FCP and adjust it to a low setting (somewhere between 0.25 and 1.5 should work).
At the optimum setting, the blur can make “dancing pixels” look much smoother.
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Hi
I also found that adding the “flicker filter” (in the “video” bin) set to medium or max helped to reduce the problem.
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