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png in Final Cut
Hi- I need to import some png’s into my FCP project. In Preview, the png’s look fantastic. In FCP or Photoshop, they look like crap (pixelated). Is there anything I can do to fix the problem? Even if I shrink the pics in FCP, the resolution doesn’t get any better. Is this just product of preview being that much different from FCP, or do I need to to export the pics into a different format?
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This stock answer counts for stills to. You need an external monitor to know what your footage really looks like.
#2 Blurry Playback
Shane’s Stock Answer #2: Blurry playback
ONLY JUDGE THE QUALITY OF YOUR MATERIAL ON AN EXTERNAL BROADCAST MONITOR, OR AT LEAST A TV.
The Canvas shows you what happens after the codec you are working with has been applied. The Viewer shows you the material in its native format. Once you drop the footage from the Viewer into the timeline, it inherits the attributes of the sequence. If it is a DV sequence, the footage will render out as DV.
1. Disable overlays on the Canvas.
2. Make sure you’ve rendered everything (no green bars at the top of the timeline).
Video playback requires large amounts of data and many computations. In order to maintain frame rate and be viewable at a normal size, only about one-fourth of the DV data is used in displaying the movie to the screen. However, the DV footage is still at full quality, and is best viewed thru a TV or broadcast monitor routed thru your camera or deck.
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It sounds to me like it could be an aspect ratio issue – do the pictures look stretched in FCP? Preview displays the pixels at a 1:1 ratio whereas FCP will be displaying them at 4:3 / 16:9. You can combat this by distorting (or un-distorting in this case) the image. Have a look at the images distort setting in the motion tab. If it’s not set to 0 then doing so should solve the problem.
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if they look like hell in photoshop but fine on output, its the zooming percentage you are seeing.
in photoshop or final cut just view them as 100% and it should look perfectly fine.
final cut does a lousy job downsizing large pictures though, you should always resize them as close to the final resolution SD or HD as possible to keep it looking good in the end.
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