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Quality problems with importing a picture/watermark into Final Cut Pro
Hi!
I am editing a video where I need to import a company logo as a watermark on the lower right hand side. I have a png file and it looks really big & clear in photoshop, but when I import it into FCP and reduce the size, the quality looks awful. I think there must be some specific rules as to how to do this, but I don’t know them. Do I save it as a jpeg? A tiff? Can someone help?
Thank you so much!!!
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7 Replies
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What are the sequence settings? Settings of the footage you are working with? If it is DV, then yeah, it will look a lot worse, due to the DV compression.
Switching the sequence settings to DV50 might help a bit.
Shane
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Hey Shane,
Thanks for answering my post…
The settings I’ve been using are just the standard DV/DVC PRO-NTSC settings on Final Cut Pro 5. Do you mean I have to re-import everything? Is there ANY way to do this with the current settings?
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[Mike Elling] “Do you mean I have to re-import everything? Is there ANY way to do this with the current settings?”
Shane was suggesting that you change the quicktime compressor in the sequence settings to DV50. Then re-render. That essentially changes the codec, and since DV50 is 4:2:2 color space it yields superior results over the 4:1:1 color space of DV when compressing graphics and text.
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Thanks guys for all of your help & attention. I am worried now because I just did exactly what you said, but I’m not sure it fully solved my problem. It still looks a tiny bit grainy, plus even the graphics I generated within FCP look a smidge grainy too (the lower 3rd looks not so good…) I’ve never worked with graphics on this kind of level, so I do not know how to troublehshoot this. Who would’ve thought that such a little image in the lower right hand corner would cause me so many problems? Not sure the next step. Helpline?
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You need to set the FCs canvas at 100% and render to see how really looks.
Rafael -
What Rafael says, and better yet you should add a proper monitor into that mix. You will never know how your timeline really looks unless you play it out to a monitor.
Jeremy
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In addition to changing your compressor settings as suggested, you might try a tiff file. Set an alpha channel in it though, or just import a Photoshop file with layers, and copy and past the logo into your sequence.
Have a wonderful day.
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