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Still images appearing aliased with jagged edges on DVDs
For years I have built programs that included still images that I added to the shows using Moving Pictures. On DVDs these images appeared as very high quality. All of a sudden, the images on DVDs appear to be aliased with jagged edges. I have not found a way to stop the aliasing.
I tried three different DVD encoder/burners, so I don’t think it’s that — I tried Avid DVD, Sorenson Squeeze, and outputting directly to a Pioneer PRV-LX1. They all have the same problem.
I tried Avid Pan & Zoom as well as the 64-bit version of Moving Pictures, so I don’t think it’s there.
It’s as if the still images are only showing one field, though they are interlaced pictures in an NTSC 30i 4:3 Standard Def program. Any ideas would be most appreciated.
My system is a Windows 7 – Media Composer 7.02 with Symphony option on an HP Z820. My video card is a Kona 3g.
Thank you.
Victor Seckeler
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UPDATE – still images work perfectly in a hi def project, so I am guessing this is a bug in how 7.02 is working with SD files, or a mistake in my workflow. Also, when I expand the pics in the timeline they immediately show aliasing in the SD project. The HD project’s stills blowup cleanly.
Victor Seckeler
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I just installed v7.0.2 (moving from v6) and am seeing the same trouble with rendered stills. FrameFlex looks better than Pan & Zoom but is still unusable. I don’t have Stage Tools on this system to check.
My projects are NTSC using Avid 1:1 10bit. I have checked Import settings, Render settings to make sure everything is correct there. I am monitoring through an AJA Kona LHi feeding an SD broadcast monitor.
EDIT: I am on a Mac running 10.8.5. All my Kona software is up to date
Anyone else seeing this?
David Hammer
Brightwood Studios
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… just a thought …
We all hope you find some simple setting or fix. BUT …
Is it supposed to work with MC 7.02?Probably once a welcome tool, but is it actively updated?
StageTools 64-bit capability was introduced about January 2012, during the reign of MC 6.
Unless I am missing a lot, the StageTools site does not seem to have a version history, revision history nor release notes.
There seems to be no contact info on their site other than info@stagetools.com.And MC 7.02 Release Notes make specific mention of field-based effects editing changes.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CDwQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fresources.avid.com%2FSupportFiles%2Fattach%2FMC702RN.pdf&ei=voa7UvDvJoPwoATo3oGYBw&usg=AFQjCNFsCD6HezTv9zawVMLC8zYA2xIcag&bvm=bv.58187178,d.cGUIs that a clue?
Yours,
Mike McCune -
Ummmm…..
That Read Me is from the original Avid v 7.02 released in 1998.
Avid restarted the version numbers sometime around the release of the Avid Adrenaline.
Cool seeing the old pre-OSX Mac interface, though.
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