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“sub-par” (crappy) quality in Canvas window and render…
i’m not sure what happened, but ever since i started this NTSC 8-bit uncompressed project, i have been getting terrible quality. Shot on BetaSP, everything was captured at 8-bit, the sequence is 8-bit, full screen shots look great, but as soon as i do virtually anything to the video (shrink it…even slightly), add a filter or graphic…whatever, the resulting image looks like it was shot with an older cel phone. I’ve checked the presets, the “views”…but i must be missing something simple. Any ideas? When i render out a QT, i get exactly the same quality as i’m seeing the viewer and canvas windows.
Thanks again.
Thanks again!
J. Tad Newberry
Big Ya Productions
Mac Pro 2.66 GHz Quad-Core
3 GB RAM
http://www.bigya.tv -
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weird… i played around a bit, and now the problem is gone and seems to be isolated to that single sequence/timeline i was working on. i did new easy setups, made a new sequence in XDCam, and HDV. threw the old 8-bit sequence on each of them and it looked great (save for scaling), then did a new 8-bit easy setup, new sequence…voila! it looks just like back in the old days (last week).
sorry to waste your time and space with this, but maybe someone can be helped by this. apparently the sequence got corrupted somehow? i dunno, but the new sequence appears to working fine now. thanks for listening.
Thanks again!
J. Tad Newberry
Big Ya Productions
Mac Pro 2.66 GHz Quad-Core
3 GB RAM
http://www.bigya.tv -
I bet you changed the Canvas size to from an odd amount to 100%. That is usually the culprit.
Kevin Monahan
http://www.fcpworld.com
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro
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