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  • psd files look like garbage when importing into fcp

    Posted by Jeff Blasczyk on December 2, 2005 at 6:18 am

    i have been importing text files into fcp at 480x720x72 and they look pixelated when i play them on the timeline and export them to quicktime. does anyone know why this is? what file types are best used in fcp?

    Shane Ross replied 20 years, 5 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Shane Ross

    December 2, 2005 at 11:30 am

    #2 Playback is blurry

    Shane’s Stock Answer #2:

    ONLY JUDGE THE QUALITY OF YOUR MATERIAL ON AN EXTERNAL NTSC MONITOR, OR AT LEAST A TV.

    1. Disable overlays on the canvas
    2. Make sure you’ve rendered everything (no green bars at the top of the timeline

    https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=24787

    DV footage 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 NTSC monitor routed thru your camera or deck.

    And putting any graphic into a DV timeline instantly compresses it 5:1…that is the nature of DV.

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