Photoshop files don’t look good in FCP

[Zane Barker]

[Ricky Dominguez] “I would like to know if this is normal or there is something that I am doing wrong.”

We cannot say, you need to give us more info.

For starters what are your sequence settings FCP?

**Hindsight is always 1080p**

[Paul Jay]

A. Judge your canvas at 100% Zoom
B. Use ProRes 444 or Animation codec in Sequence settings for best quality.

*Animation Codec is not a realtime video codec but much better for graphics in FCP compared to ProRes422.
It’s a huge difference. Yeah i was suprised too.

[Ricky Dominguez]

Thanks Zane and Paul for replaying.

This happen to me in all sequences it dosen’t matter if it is SD or HD in any size.
If I drag the psd (with layers) file from the browser to the timeline it look jagged the file so I go inside the sequence and copy all layer and aded to my original sequence and I have to rearrange in size all the element in the psd file.

[Paul Jay]

SD and HD doesn’t mean anything.
You need to have proper sequence settings.
and Judge the canvas at 100%
Check your Canvas, is it set to 100%?

What are your current sequence settings?

[Ricky Dominguez]

I digitize a spot that came in a Digital Betacam
NTCS 720×486 29.97 Field Dominance: lower (even)
The agency send me a psd multilayer logo (1650×1200) that I have to add.
I import the logo to FCP then I add the logo psd multilayer file to my sequence and It dosen’t look good.
What I do is go inside the psd sequence and grab all the layers and add the to my original sequence and then the look good.

I think the problem is a Field Dominance my sequence lower and the psd file is none.
How do I mix Field Dominance???

Thanks,

Ricky Dominguez
Luna Films
Puerto Rico