PNG Transparency fine in RT, but renders like crap.

[Steve Eisen]

Could be the font. Where are you viewing this?

Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Board of Directors
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group

[Cory Caplan]

It’s arial narrow, but that’s not so much a concern, it’s a rasterized “graphic” …does the font matter so much? I’m having a problem with a layer above it too, an animated qt.

I just don’t understand how it’s processing the alpha differently in RT vs render SO DRASTICALLY. Might be a new QT bug or something, don’t know if anybody else is experiencing something similar.

https://www.spacecadet.com/video/gkphr/renderproblem.jpg

Tracks are like this:

>V4 – Disclaimer PNG
>V3 – QT Animation Codec w/ Alpha
>V2 – Transparent PNG blue letterbox
>V1 – Video/Solid PNG

Time to panic.

[Tom Wolsky]

What format is this? Are you looking at a rendered output in playback on a video monitor? You can’t assess an interlaced format on a computer monitor, especially not with text that crappy.

All the best,

Tom

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Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”

[Cory Caplan]

Yes, the results are the same on my Aja LHE. As a matter of fact, it plays perfectly fine on a monitor unrendered, and then, once rendered looks on the monitor like it does on the screen.

Now I’m getting nervous…

[Cory Caplan]

I only have this problem if I render in Prores422. (No difference between HQ ON/OFF)

This must be a recent development or somebody surely would have noticed this, yes? Kind of a big deal..

If Avid DV50 can do it, surely Prores can?

[Steve Eisen]

Build your comp in Motion or Live Type.

Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Board of Directors
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group

[Rafael Amador]

Hi Cory,
Have a look in the Browser about the Field Order.
I don’t know why many times they show up as Interlaced spoiling the rendering.
rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com

[Rafael Amador]

Sorry I was talking about the PNGs.
rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com

[Cory Caplan]

Thanks for the suggestions.

the PNG isn’t interlaced, and clearly isn’t the problem, as I can change the codec, and it works fine.

As for the recommendation to do it in Motion on AE, yeah, I had to move a lot of the project to AE, but I still need to do the name/web super and the disclaim in FCP because of the 80 or so different versions I have to generate. Luckily (?) I can do the workaround with animation codec or whatever, if I don’t find a fix.

This is clearly a Prores glitch..

[Chris Borjis]

[Cory Caplan] “the PNG isn’t interlaced, and clearly isn’t the problem, as I can change the codec, and it works fine.”

Cory, that could actually very well be the problem.

being interlaced doesn’t matter. changing the codec doesn’t matter.

in some instances not setting a field order of either a sequence or an item
can cause this very problem your having.