poor rez. on graphics

[Seven]

I just read something on the Apple site about making sure the motion render setting is “fastest – linear”.

I ran into a situation where all of my graphics were looking good until I rendered. (Monitoring on an SDI monitor – 16×9 project)

I think it might be a bug. My situation was further compounded by the fact that I was given layered PSDs. Of course these come in as sequences. So I had to adjust the motion render quaility of both the graphics sequence AND the main edit sequence – otherwise I would still get faulty renders.

[Michael Horton]

Just TRY it. I’m not playing a game here. If it works, great. if not, then on to something else.

Michael Horton
lafcpug
https://www.lafcpug.org

[Chris Babbitt]

Michael,

I know you’re trying to help, but I think you’ve got your terms confused, if that’s possible. Under RT, I have two choices, “Safe & Unlimited.” I have Safe selected. Under Playback Quality, I have 4 choices, Dynamic. High, Medium & Low. I have it set to Dynamic. I cannot choose one instead of the other. In any case, this only affects unrendered material. The problems most of us are having with graphics, stills and motion, is after rendering. So far the only thing that works for me for rendered effects is “Fastest” under the Motion Filter Quality settings. Setting Field Dominance to “None” only results in stroby, or un-smooth motion. I’m not trying to be difficult. I’ve been using FCP since the day it was released, and this has been the most confusing thing I think I have run across since then. Too many choices & unnessesarily complicated.

[Seven]

To add to my previous post, it was necessary to set the field order of the graphics sequence to NONE – (because the graphics were cut in from the sequence rather than ripping out the individual layers into separate files – I didn’t start the project!).

As a side note, because I work on projects that have a lot of graphics revisions, I am trying to understand why people would use layered PSDs for import. While it might be easier for the designer, it seems to be a bit of a bear for the editor.

[Dugan]

I thought that I had my problem solved after setting my field dominance to none but the “stroby” issue that you mentioned is my problem now. (And I did adjust my motion render to fastest and I think it still looks stroby.)

Woe. (And the “might be a bug” comment has just boosted my stress level.) I’m still beating my head against this….

[Dugan]

An addition to my previous post – any comments from anyone else using fcp 5 and how you deal w/ this graphics rez./”stroby” video issue would be appreciated.

[Seven]

Do they look good before you render?
Can you look at the motion tab and make sure there is no repositioning going on? (Scale 100, center 0,0 etc.)

[Dugan]

Yes, the graphics look fine, and, yes, there is no motion.

And, distressingly, yes, my issue continues….

[Kent Esmeier]

I’m hitting the same problems you are having. I am using an 8 bit uncompressed sequence with Kona2 hardware – FCP 5. All settings on High Quality. When I import a still graphic as a tiff, it seams ok, untill I try and adjust it with the motion tab. Even a crop causes a bad aliasing to occur.

I feel Like I am missing something here, but I followed the advice given thus far and the problem persists. going to no field dom wont work for any interlaced footage, that is a fact.

I wish for a progressive frame world. I loathe fields.

For what it is worth, I am also a smoke editor and deal with mixing interlaced and progressive all the time with success.

FCP needs to step it up in rendering/graphics handeling in this area to be a decent on-line box.