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Shimmering Stills
I have a project that is 720 x 480, all still pictures in FCP HD.
I burned a DVD using compressor (60 min high quality) and the DVD Studio Pro.
Projected, the show looks pretty good. Clean and steady. However, watching on a large (56″) TV, many of the pictures shimmered. That is, any images with details or complex patterns shimmered and crawled. There are no zooms or moves on any of the still pictures?
Is there a way to cure this? Is it something to do with interlacing, or is their a filter to apply to stop this? The show will be projected at a festival soon — I magine on a pretty good quality projector. But it may also be screened on a regular TV via a DVD.
Any ideas/diagnosis/help appreciated.
Todd
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4 Replies
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Your right! It is interlace lines that cause this effect. Depending on the resolution of your picture you will have to, gulp, blur your picture to stop this effect. Try differing amounts of blur to get the right combination. If it is just one area try Photoshop and blur just that area.
Hope this helps-
Matthew
Dual 500 G4
OSX 10.3.5
Ram 1.38
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You need to blur the stills but only in vertical direction. If, as you say, there isn’t any movement in the pictures I suggest cropping and scaling them in Photoshop to 720×480 size (in this case) and then apply ‘Motion Blur’ in vertical direction (90
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You might also want to try the Too Much Too Soon blend fields filter.
https://www.mattias.nu/plugins/
Also, if the stills you are importing are too large, FCP isn’t the best choice fore scaling them, especially when you get south of 50%.
Bob Auiler
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Todd,
No motion and they a shimmering? That’s very odd. There are some good ideas here, and I would add that the flicker filter (video) set to max is a big help. Also the size of the stills is important, someone here mentioned this, make them no larger than they absolutely need to be otherwise FCP can’t handle it. There’s no sub-pixel rendering like in AE.
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