Stairstepping on Scaled Graphics (Both FCP and Motion)

[Dave Martin]

Hi Dave

Yes, I’m looking at a Sony Broadcast Monitor (Component). Also, I have a lot of experience doing graphics in AE.

Thanks for the reply…

Tim Martin

-MacBook Pro – 2.16GHz Intel Core Duo – 2 gig Ram

-FCP Studio 5.1.1 – QT 7.1 – OSX 10.4.6 – Lacie D2 dv external drive – G-raid dv drive

[Chris Babbitt]

Tim,

Did you render it?

[Dave Martin]

Yes…it’s rendered. I rendered after every filter/change I’ve tried so far…

Tim Martin

-MacBook Pro – 2.16GHz Intel Core Duo – 2 gig Ram

-FCP Studio 5.1.1 – QT 7.1 – OSX 10.4.6 – Lacie D2 dv external drive – G-raid dv drive

[Jeremy Garchow]

What codec?

[David Bogie]

Welcome to the fmaily.

Jaggies are only going to show up if you’re looking at the individual pixels.
You can see the pixels if it’s scaled up beyond reason or is in an image format that FCP cannot process natively and so you’re getting a draft image. For instance, FCP has no vector abilities natively so, unlike After Effects, it will not continuously rasterize stuff from Illustrator or vectors from PS.

What’s the source of the image?

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[Dave Martin]

I’ve tried .psd , .pct and .tga They have not been scaled past 100% but the psd was originally 1200 x 600. I eventually fit the image to 720 x 486…

Thanks….

Tim Martin

-MacBook Pro – 2.16GHz Intel Core Duo – 2 gig Ram

-FCP Studio 5.1.1 – QT 7.1 – OSX 10.4.6 – Lacie D2 dv external drive – G-raid dv drive

[Dave Martin]

8 bit uncompressed

Tim Martin

-MacBook Pro – 2.16GHz Intel Core Duo – 2 gig Ram

-FCP Studio 5.1.1 – QT 7.1 – OSX 10.4.6 – Lacie D2 dv external drive – G-raid dv drive

[Dave Martin]

Thanks for the reply Dave

Sounds like you’re making a good honest assessment. I understand if FCP and Motion can’t perform like AE (as far as quality goes but it is much faster)..it’s just that so many people have said “Hey FCP and Motion can do everything AE does”…I had to try it to see.

Apparently AE won’t be going away any time soon…thanks again!

Tim Martin

-MacBook Pro – 2.16GHz Intel Core Duo – 2 gig Ram

-FCP Studio 5.1.1 – QT 7.1 – OSX 10.4.6 – Lacie D2 dv external drive – G-raid dv drive

[Jeremy Garchow]

You’ve set the timeline to best rendering I take it? (Different from full or high quality rt).

have your timeline open, hit command-0 to bring up the sequence settings, hit the video processing tab and change the motion filtering quality from normal to best.

If you are only scaling a graphic it shouldn’t be this bad, scaling video SD video maybe, but not a graphic that is bigger than than the sequence to start with.

Jeremy

[Jeremy Garchow]

Also, you said the graphic has an alpha, correct? What type of alpha is selected? Try cycling through different options and see if that gives you a better image.

Jeremy