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Rendering issues
I am at my wit’s end today. I just upgraded to FCP 7 last week and I’m having nothing but problems since.
I have a project that is comprised of a bunch of jpgs. I have to render the jpgs after putting them on the time line.
Prior to rendering, they are of fantastic quality.
After rendering, they look like crap.
WHAT am I doing incorrectly?
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You are putting this nice high quality graphic into a DV timeline?
#50 – Quality difference between Viewer and Canvas
Shane’s Stock Answer #49 – Why is the quality different between what I see in the Viewer and what I see in the Canvas?
Well… the viewer is just that– a viewer. It will display anything that fcp will recognize as usable video or graphics. The canvas is a viewer too, but at the pixel dimension specified by the settings of your project and sequence.
For example, if your graphic or footage is much higher resolution than your 720×480 DV sequence, FCP is interpolating down your file to fit the settings of the sequence. Usually this makes it look not so hot. DV is a 5:1 compression working with a 4:1:1 color depth. Your pristine picture images and graphics are being crushed.
Same with picture files. HIgh res pics now adopt the sequence settings and will render to those specs, and most likely they are not as high quality.
Shane
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There was no quality difference between the viewer and the canvas – both screen shots were taken in the canvas – it’s just that one was pre-rendering and one was rendered. I work with all types of images both in Motion and FCP almost every single day of my life and this has NEVER happened to me before.
Whether it was an imported animated Motion file or jpgs dragged directly onto the timeline, the same thing was happening. It looked gorgeous until it got rendered, then it looked like crap. I changed all the settings, made it an HD timeline, etc … nothing worked.
And when I exported it to a .mov, it was still that same crappy quality.
Anyway, it’s fixed now. I don’t know what happened. All of a sudden it literally just started rendering at full quality. My husband (graphic designer) took a look at it while I was at work – he must have changed something, but he swears he didn’t. But, when I got home and rendered the project again, there was no problem. He said all he did was change the percentage that the canvas was zoomed in – but that wouldn’t change the quality of the .mov file, too.
So the client has his file and I literally have no idea why now there is no problem when it looked like a crap five hours before that.
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