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Render question
What would cause title cards (720 x 486) Pict from PS as well as stuff generated in Boris to look worse AFTER rendering in seq. All match seq settings and they are considered real time but on export they are rendered and look terrible. Renders all set to maximum quality as well as my render playback. Safe/Dynamic/Unlimited.
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If your sequence settings are DV, then these nice crisp clear titles and graphics get rendered into the DV codec…5:1 compression 4:1:1 color. Doesn’t treat titles nicely.
Changing the sequence settings to DV50 or Uncompressed 8 bit and rendering helps tons. But then you need faster drives, if you are going uncompressed.
Shane
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Sorry I didnt clarify. My sequence is 10bit uncompressed. Footage captured the same off dig beta. However I am runninng all this off a fw 800 drive which now that I think of it could that be the issue.
is that issue and if so, what is the solution?
thanks
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Are you viewing this on an external calibrated NTSC/PAL monitor? The firewire drive wouldn’t decrease the quality, it would increase the possibilities of dropped frames. That is pushing it for UC 10-bit.
Shane
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No external monitor on this job. Just doing something on the laptop.
G4 MacBook Pro non intel.
I feel like I have seen this before. just cant figure why they would look good in the viewer, then dropped in the seq they look fine – unrendered) then rendered the lose quality. Again I have checked all my render settings and they are at maximum quality.
The other thing I cant figure out is that is doing this for both Boris and Photoshop files.
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Well, here’s why you need the external monitor:
#2 Blurry Playback
Shane’s Stock Answer #2: Blurry playback
ONLY JUDGE THE QUALITY OF YOUR MATERIAL ON AN EXTERNAL BROADCAST MONITOR, OR AT LEAST A TV.
The Canvas shows you what happens after the codec you are working with has been applied. The Viewer shows you the material in its native format. Once you drop the footage from the Viewer into the timeline, it inherits the attributes of the sequence. If it is a DV sequence, the footage will render out as DV.
1. Disable overlays on the Canvas.
2. Make sure you’ve rendered everything (no green bars at the top of the timeline).
Video playback 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 broadcast monitor routed thru your camera or deck.
Shane
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Shane I could not agree with you more. And when I am at the studio we have all our broadcast monitors and they are calibrated, and life is good.
But however when you are one the road and doing something quick on the laptop you never have the luxury of home.
I figured out the issue. Totally my oversight. Seg Settings/Render Resolution had been bumped down to %50 on this machine.
thanks for your time.
jack
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