Quality Issue

[Tmacdonald]

It worked. I used H.264 as my snapz codec then changed the sequence codec to H.264 as well. Thanks for all your help.

[Kevin Monahan]

Hey Tucker,
You might try to go to the RT Pop Up menu and make sure that that it is set to Safe RT, High Quality and Full Frame.
If the quality is set to Dynamic or medium, you might see the problem you are experiencing.

You see, the RT pop up menu is absolutely crucial to grok as it unlocks the two major ways you work with FX and FCP.

Safe RT, High Quality and Full Frame is for quality checks and outputs.
Unlimited RT, Dynamic Quality and Dynamic Frame rate is for all other times when working with FCP. This way you have more Real Time FX.

Hope that makes sense and gives you something new to try.

By the way, Thax is right. You probably aren’t used to using a video monitor while you work, but it is rather important.
if you don’t have a monitor, hook a good TV up to your camcorder as you work. It’s kind of a pain in the neck, however,
it will save you the pain of having to export to QT to do a mere quality check. Even if your final delivery is web or DVD.

By the way, you are the coolest 13 year old kid. Keep it up, I wish I had your chops when I was 13.
Oh yeah. They didn’t really have computers or video stuff when I was 13. Well, there was the Altair and for
video there was BetaMax. 😉

Have fun with FCP and good luck.

Kevin Monahan
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[Ron Lindeboom]

You’re welcome, I figured it was a case of codec fuzziness you were referring to.

Ron Lindeboom

[Thaxter Clavemarlton]

[tmacdonald] “But if I am outputting to the web, how would an external monitor help? I should judge the quality on the computer, because everyone else will be viewing it on the computer.”

Because FCP’s Canvas is NOT DESIGNED to give an accurate IMAGE for judging quality.

It’s output is not the same thing as “viewing on the computer”, it is simply “viewing on the CANVAS” (for reference).

After rendering, many images look WORSE on the Canvas than they did “raw.”

[Dit Ben]

Oh wow, the god of the Cow is speaking. The Cow cult grants me this opportunity to thank you for the Cow (long live the cow!)
I do also have a question concerning your podcasts: is there a place where you describe said settings you use to compress the video podcasts?
Youre saying you use a combination: do you mean you compress in sorenson squeeze and then again in h.264? If so, why not just sorenson or h.264?
Thanks a lot

[Graeme Nattress]

Try putting field order to “none” on the timeline. That usually helps me with graphics / snapz etc.

– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP

[Sam Hummel]

I hope it isn’t dumb of me to post this question on a professional forum like this one.

I’m working on an instructional video for a school. Buying the MainConcept H.264 codec is outside our budget. Is there a cheaper codec or solution for decent screenshot video capture anyone would recommend? Anybody tried Camastasia Studio?

I’m working on a PC and editing in Premiere.

-Sam

[Walter Biscardi]

[thunksalot] “I’m working on a PC and editing in Premiere.”

Why are you posting in the Final Cut Pro forum?

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Food Network’s “Good Eats”
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