STILLS that looked great in FCP4.5 look very BAD in FCP5

[Samuel Frazier]

I don’t want to hijack this thread, but I’m using 4.5 and found that some text I had that looked fine before now looks aliased around the edges after rotating it with the motion tab. I tried to fix it as described above, but I don’t see these options in the sequence settings. Am I wrong or does 4.5 not have this option?
For what it’s worth though, I was able to fix my problem by doing the text and rotation in Boris Red (using it as a filter in FCP).

[Ryun Hovind]

I had the same prob, but changed the settings and now it’s Great! However, it concerns me that the default setting is not what it should be for editors wanting great looking video. Does anyone know if there is a list of things you need to change to setup FINAL CUT properly before you start? It seems like someone should have a list of all the pitfalls so we don’t all have to trial and error our way through?

RH

[Television Tim]

Don’t use the motion tab or wireframe in the viewer to move text, as soon as you do it looks bad. Under the control tab there are controls to move your text, use them and your text should look fine. Make sure that under the motion tab the position of your text is at 0 & 0 for the center point. Don’t know if in FCP4.5 has the “motion filtering quality” but that was to change the way still images looked, and it made a slight change but it stills not as good as setting the sequence field dominance to none.

[Tom Adams]

ok, i’m back from a weekend of ‘relaxing’ with the wife and kids…

i took into account all of the above suggestions. and i’m rendering. fcp is telling me it’s going to take 17 hours…which i’m assuming (hoping0 is wrong but that’s a good indicator that it’s got a whole lot of rendering to correct all those crappy stills. the program is about a half hour of stills with a lot of motion and filters and effects so it could be right…

anyway… Dan: regarding your blue strip over the timeline…interesting because I have NEVER had a blue strip over the timeline…even when everything looked good back in FCP 4.5 and/or 5.0. but I’d like to hear more about that…

Ok, thanks again, I’ll keep you posted.

-Tom

[Tom Adams]

ok, folks that was it. i changed the motion/still setting to BEST and re-rendered and everything looks awesome. thanks a lot for all your suggestions. also, dan, i guess your blue might be what I call gray, cuz’ now I see the full grayish blue bar across timeline. so thanks again -god bless creativecow!

-tom

[Tom Adams]

Ryan,

sorry, i don’t have a list but I’d love to hear from anyone that might no of such a list. I assume that the problm might be that everyone has their own “proper settings” depending on what type of projects they are used to working on…but i would love to see some samples of other peoples settings…

Regards,

Tom Adams – Director/Owner
Reelife Documentary Productions
“cool digital video stuff…not boring or dumb”
info@reelifeproductions.com http://www.reelifeproductions.com
Williamsburg, MA, USA

1.4Ghz DP mirrordoor G4
OS10.4.3, FCP 5.0.3
Panasonic DVX100a & EZ1

[Tom Adams]

Ryan,

sorry, i don’t have a list but I’d love to hear from anyone that might no of such a list. I assume that the problm might be that everyone has their own “proper settings” depending on what type of projects they are used to working on…but i would love to see some samples of other peoples settings…

Regards,

Tom Adams – Director/Owner
Reelife Documentary Productions
“cool digital video stuff…not boring or dumb”
info@reelifeproductions.com http://www.reelifeproductions.com
Williamsburg, MA, USA

1.4Ghz DP mirrordoor G4
OS10.4.3, FCP 5.0.3
Panasonic DVX100a & EZ1

[Tom Adams]

Ryan,

sorry, i don’t have a list but I’d love to hear from anyone that might no of such a list. I assume that the problm might be that everyone has their own “proper settings” depending on what type of projects they are used to working on…but i would love to see some samples of other peoples settings…

Regards,

Tom Adams – Director/Owner
Reelife Documentary Productions
“cool digital video stuff…not boring or dumb”
info@reelifeproductions.com http://www.reelifeproductions.com
Williamsburg, MA, USA

1.4Ghz DP mirrordoor G4
OS10.4.3, FCP 5.0.3
Panasonic DVX100a & EZ1