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  • Still images blurry in FCPro

    Posted by Sherwood Ball on August 9, 2006 at 7:48 am

    I’ve been importing JPEGs and PNG’s into my timeline and
    doing the ole Ken Burns boogie.
    When I play them in the timeline, they get blurry, when I stop the playhead
    the image becomes clear again.

    Any workaround?

    Thnx.
    Sherwood

    G5 Dual 2.5 GHz
    4G Ram OSX4.6
    Sata drives
    Final Cut Pro 4.5HD, Logic Audio 7.1
    PS CS2, AE CS2

    Shane Ross replied 19 years, 9 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
  • 2 Replies
  • Andy Mees

    August 9, 2006 at 8:18 am

    FCP is showing you a “preview quality” version … you will need to render to see the full quality

  • Shane Ross

    August 9, 2006 at 8:56 am

    Shane’s Stock Answer #2: Blurry playback

    ONLY JUDGE THE QUALITY OF YOUR MATERIAL ON AN EXTERNAL NTSC MONITOR, OR AT LEAST A TV.

    1. Disable overlays on the canvas
    2. Make sure you’ve rendered everything (no green bars at the top of the timeline

    https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=24787

    DV footage requires large amounts of data and many computations. In order to maintain frame rate and be viewable at a normal size, only about one-fourth of the DV data is used in displaying the movie to the screen. However, the DV footage is still at full quality, and is best viewed thru a TV or NTSC monitor routed thru your camera or deck.

    Shane

    Littlefrog Post
    http://www.lfhd.net

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