PIP is poor quality

[Ryan Megan]

This might not help much, but I know with generic AVID PIP effects there is a HQ tab on the right in the effect control panel that is needed to be activated to prevent the PIP’s from looking like crap.

[Grinner Hester]

You will have to use After Effects for anything DVE related unless you can get by with 1995 aliased edged quality. This is not just liquid. This is EVERY avid product benieth DS Nitris to this very day, man.
Of all the things they worked on over the years (before they stopped working) the bogus aliased DVE just was not one of them, man. This has been their weakest link since the 3D DVE was released with MCv5, at least until the big downgrade a few years ago.
Your work arounds are literally to not rotate a PIP in Avid or to use AE. As an Avid editor, you will get in a habbit of using AE very quickly.

[Grinner Hester]

I didn’t see it as them adding a HQ tab so much as adding a medium and low rez tab as a feeble attempt to remedy the ram problems introduced with the big down grade a few years ago.
HQ is still as bad as it was before they bastardized media composer.

[Leigh Gray]

Thanks all.

Some of that ( AE? ) is over my head.

What I found though is that De-interlacing in timeline properties ( instead of TFF ) fixes the problem 100%. The only down side is that rendering takes longer and anything slower than 50% in timewarp…. becomes ‘notchy’

On another project with only a couple of PIP’s, and kepping TFF….. a 1% blur over the PIP fixed it ( but obviously not RAXOR sharp image then.

How does all the above soound for a fix??

If the other ways are better …. could they be explained in a bit more detail for an idiot ( me ) please 🙂

Thanks for the help to date 🙂

Leigh

[Grinner Hester]

while the deinterlacing trick does band-aid some things, as you are finding, it introduces some as well.
Again, I suggest after effects. If you are gonna be an Avid editor, you will have to learn after effects. It’s just part of the gig as far as I am concerened.

feel free to ask AE questions here on on the AE forum.