small still photos in FCP composite look low-res

[Russell Lasson]

It seems silly to mention, but at the risk of seeming elementary, did you render your sequence after you brought the LiveType clip in?

Go to Sequence – Render All and make sure every option has a check mark by it.

Then select something in your sequence and select Sequence – Render All – Both.

Just thought I’d check.

-Russ

[Rileym]

indeed i did.
always a good idea to check that basic stuff, thouggh. just to be sure.

i’m looking into render settings now.

but i don’t think thats it.

any other ideas?

thanks

[Rileym]

well, when i said earlier that it was the livetype file causing the problem, i think that i was off base.

bringing the layers into a timeline by themselves, the photos look sharp, on the computer monitor, and my 2 external ntsc monitors, HOWEVER, as soon as i render, they get that loss in resolution that i’m talking about.

(earlier i was thinking, the photos look sharp until i place them over the livetype file, but i think the process of doing that was making the system do a proxy render which makes the photos lose resolution)

so it seems to be the video processing of the graphics that causese the issue, but i still don’t get it. why?
i haven’t had this issue before…

any other ideas?

[Tom Brooks]

I’m having a similar problem but haven’t had the time to look into it yet. It looks like the photo clips are being poorly deinterlaced. Look for deinterlacing in your workflow.

[Rafael Amador]

If the pictures got a lot of resolution and you are scaling them down if FC, you can get a lot of crap on it. Try to put 0.5 Gaussian Blur in the stills.
rafael

[Pasi Koivisto]

Why not try to put it all in a 8-bit uncompressed timeline and render it. I really don’t see a point in working graphics in a DV timeline unless you have to for delivery reasons but I seem to recall you’re going to deliver a wmv file.

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