Rendering Settings

[Zane Barker]

[Steven J. Gilbert] “When I render, the screen capture looks horribly blurry”

What are your timeline settings?

[Steven J. Gilbert] “I have captured a computer screen tutorial that needs to be transferred to FCP”

What codec is your screen capture in?

**Hindsight is always 1080p**

[Richard Cooper]

I think that if you have the option to do your screen capture to 720×480 this would be the best approach. When you put your 600×800 file on the 720×480 time line everything would have to be rendered and most likely down scaled slightly, which Final Cut is notoriously NOT good at.
Also, once you have the screen capture at 720×480, depending on the file format you are able to capture to, I would trans code this file to ProRes 422 before editing, if it is not already. This will enable you to edit without rendering and will give you a much smoother work flow.
Hope this helps.

Richard Cooper
FrostLine Productions, LLC
Anchorage, Alaska
http://www.frostlineproductions.com

[Steven J. gilbert]

I am using Camtasia Studio 7 for screen capture. My FCP timeline settings I am adjusting. What compression should I try using? Animation, Photo – JPEG?? Thanks.

[Zane Barker]

[Steven J. Gilbert] “I am using Camtasia Studio 7 for screen capture. My FCP timeline settings I am adjusting. “

That answers NONE of the questions I asked.

Look at the list of easy setups in FCP, pick a screen record setting that matches one.

**Hindsight is always 1080p**

[Steven J. gilbert]

Are you looking for the codec in Camtasia or FCP? I used an animation codec to render the timeline after import. THanks for your assistance.

[Zane Barker]

[Steven J. Gilbert] “Are you looking for the codec in Camtasia or FCP?”

BOTH you should have them match.

[Steven J. Gilbert] “I used an animation codec to render the timeline after import.”

Like I said they match, so only use that as your time line settings if thats the codec you screen capture in.

If posible use the ProRes Codec.

**Hindsight is always 1080p**