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TEXT in IMAGES corrupt. HELP
Hello!,
I am working on a presentation and I am having extreme difficulty with some photoshop files.
When I import the photos (PNG, JPEG, PSD) into final cut, all of them look crisp until I ad a rotation (the client wants them to be a bit rotated). Once I rotate the image, the text on the images (not text created in final cut) becomes extremely jagged. I feel like I’ve tried everything and none of these work:
1. Tried an animation, pro res HQ, Square, uncompressed, and apple motion jpeg sequence. Turned field dominance to “none.” Tried a “square” pixel aspect ration.
2. Converted photos to different formats and experimented (JPEG, PNG, TIF, GIF).
3. Trashed render files.
I’ve exported uncompressed, pro-res, animation, dv – and the text still looks extremely corrupt.
These are going to be presented as quicktime files (not for broadcast).
I am at a stand still and don’t know what to do. It seems like a render/field issue, but I don’t know.
Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you.
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3 Replies
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what size are your photoshop files?
I assume they are very large, and must be scaled down to fit in your timeline.
Make the image size smaller in photoshop (72 dpi), and that might help.If you don’t think this is your issue,
describe what the “corrupt text” looks like, and we can better understand what’s going on. -
Hey Todd,
Thanks for your response. By corrupt, I mean the font on the images becomes extremely jagged (unreadable) when it is rotated. When the photo is not rotated, the font looks very clean and crisp.
I resized to 72 dpi from 300 dpi, and that did help it a little! Still not clear like it is when the Image is not rotated, but much cleaner. Thanks. 🙂
I also tried a Pro-res HQ sequence, which helped the font look a little cleaner.
– Sean
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you didn’t mention what image size went along with the dpi. They are two separate, and important things.
Since you are rotating, you need to be larger than the video frame, but a lot of photoshop file3s come MUCH larger. Try changing the “image size- within photoshop” to just a bit larger than your video.
ex. 720×486 video, I might change to 1000x? (constrain proportion and it calculates for you)Also, you can try putting a very slight blur, couple of pixels (in FCP), and that may help.
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