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Problem when importing great quality screen captures in quicktime and when opening in FCP the quality is poor
Hello,
I have a problems I am hoping someone here can help with.
I am using Final Cut Pro 5 with all updates current.
I made a lot of screen captures (text based mostly with some images) to make a podcast with (screen captures were made at 800×600 resolution) When I look at the captures with Quicktime Pro, they are in pristine quality and will blow up to full screen with out fuzziness.
However, when I brought them into FCP to add the sound and edit the lengths of the clips and make the presentation I found that when I viewed the Quicktime clips I imported into FCP the quality was very poor (to the point of not being able to read the letters which I could before in Quicktime Pro.
I am at a loss. I am doing this Podcast for a School and want it to be the best it can be.
Any assistance I can get with this problem would be greatly appreciated,
Thank you,
Robert
EGBOK. if you remember to back up youe data.
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16 Replies
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Change Canvas Size to 100%. How does it look now?
Kevin Monahan
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Still poor image when canvas at 100%.
I am not sure why.
Also, when I exported to quicktime is is worse (verymuch unreadable) No compression added.
I did some trials this morning also, getting some more screen captures at various resolutins from 800×600, 1024×768, and 1680×1050 (all non-streched) on my macbook pro and I kept getting the same problem.
Very fustrating.
Thanks again.
EGBOK. if you remember to back up youe data.
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What are you saving these files as?
PICT, PSD, Quicktime (what codec?)…
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Wayne Carey
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What codec are you editing in in FCP? If it’s DV then your resolution is 720×480 (regardless of what res your source material is at) and DV compression isn’t very nice to text.
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What codec are you editing in in FCP? If it’s DV then your resolution is 720×480 (regardless of what res your source material is at) and DV compression isn’t very nice to text.
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saving as Quicktime then bringing into FCP as quicktime. (no codec other than just Quicktime
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Quicktime is not a codec but a container. You can have DV/DVCPRO50/Animation/Uncompressed/whatever-quality coded Quictimes. I would recommend using Uncompressed 8-10 bit for most mundane works.
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And have you de-interlaced the footage before make the stills?
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Let me ask you this, Jackknife…
Why are you saving them as Quicktime? If these are still frames, save them as still frames. You can use the deinterlace filter that FCP has and then grab your stills as PSD or PICT files. Saving them as Quicktime is only another step that is causing you grief.
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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions
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These are not stills. It is a quicktime movie of moving screen capture of the mouse moving pointing to this and that during a tutorial.
Not a still though
Thanks,
Robert
EGBOK. if you remember to back up youe data.
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