Power Point slides look sharp until I play on the timeline ,then they blur just a little.

[Bret Williams]

Are you playing back as better quality or better performance? Sounds like the latter which lessens the quality a little for much better RT playback.

[Scott Witthaus]

It’s under the View dropdown menu at the top right. Choose Better Quality.

Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
Professor, VCU Brandcenter

[Patrick Donegan]

I have noticed that PPT slides look blurring while playing until they get rendered.

FCP X 10.2.2 – user since FCP 1.25
iMac mid 2011, MBA mid 2012
HVX-200, Shure wireless mic

[Mark Suszko]

You already got the most likely answers, but, I’ll be the one to ask: how are the slides set up/generated?

Did you have powerpoint export a movie file or individual stills, and if stills, what frame size and format?

When I’m doing these (in fact, doing one today), I pre-format the slides from 3:4 to already be 16:9 (Surprising, how many users don’t know you can change that, and they do horrible stretches instead to fit a frame), apply drop shadows on the bare text lines to make them read better, and I output full HD size .tif files.

I also always make one extra slide that’s just a bare background in the same style as the original slides – makes it easier to do fixes later.

[Ty Ford]

Thanks Everyone!

Mark, These were individual jpeg files. I wasn’t the one exporting them, so I can’t really answer much more.

This will be a 4:3 presentation and that’s the way the slides are formatted.

Regards,

Ty Ford

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