Stills: crisp in viewer / pixelated in canvas..?

[Shane Ross]

Forget the Canvas. That is not the place to judge the look of your footage. That is merely a reference monitor to show you what you have in the timeline. You need to view this on an external NTSC monitor or TV routed thru your camera/deck.

Why does it look better in your Viewer than in your Canvas? Dunno…but I do know this:

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.

[Dave Sullivan]

Hello,

Am I right in saying that you can set both windows to show video in high, medium, & low quality? Maybe you have one set to show high, & the other low? Just a thought.

[Riccardo Zito]

Hi,
Thanks for the reply..
The images are still blury and pixaleted when played externally..
The funny thing is I have exactly the same settings and footage on FC 4.5 and all runs great.. on FC 5 however its a whole different ball game.
As far as RT settings, well.. I went crazy and tried every possible combination.. still nothing.
????

[Walter Biscardi]

Open up your Sequence Settings, Video Processing and make sure the Motion filtering is set to Best. Default is “good.”

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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[Riccardo Zito]

Thanks W*,
you are right.. canvas image is still crappy, but the quality of the played out footage is much better.
Thank you very much.
R.

[Walter Biscardi]

[riccardo zito] “you are right.. canvas image is still crappy, “

The Canvas will never look sharp, it’s degraded by design and only the external output should ever be used to judge quality of your projects.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Creative Genius, Biscardi Creative Media
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[Bret Williams]

Everybody says that but my canvas always matches my NTSC monitor. I have never understood these comments. Never has it occurred to me that it looks good in the NTSC, but bad on the canvas. If anything, photoshop files and titles look crisp on the canvas, but on the NTSC monitor they’ve been subject to DV compression and start to look like crap, whilst in the canvas they are full rez RGB.