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text looks terrible
Hello,
I am working on a title sequence that looks clean in motion but once I get it into final cut pro the text artifacts. I have tried round tripping the sequence and I have also exported an alpha+lossless movie then imported it into FCP with the same results. I am working with NTSC DV settings. The results are the same after the file has been rendered in fcp with best quality settings.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Rafael A
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8 Replies
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[rafael August] “I am working with NTSC DV settings.”
There’s your problem. Text in DV is always pixelated. Try changing tht compressor to ProRes or 8 bit and render.
Have a wonderful day.
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Try monitoring it properly. How does it look in a video monitor? No monitor? Try your Canvas at !00%. Super common problem.
Kevin Monahan
http://www.fcpworld.com
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro -
I really agree with Kevin – when your in DV NTSC you’re basically editing for interlaced CRT type television viewing. So if you can watch your sequence on a video monitor, even sending out firewire through a DSR-11 or some type of DV capture deck out to a monitor, that will be a better way to see what you work is looking like. Otherwise, absolutely make sure your canvas is set to 100%.
All very good advice Kevin.
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Stephen May
Keystone Media Productions
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Hi Chris,
I tried the pro res and 8 bit codec but there was no change. When I view the movie in the viewer it looks much better than when I get it into the time line. Any other suggestions?
Thanks,
Rafael
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Please reread my post.
Kevin Monahan
http://www.fcpworld.com
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro -
Sorry. I didn’t see it before I posted it. But YES! the canvas to 100% was the trick. I feel pretty stupid. It was set to 99.
Thanks guys.
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dear Rafael,
sometimes i’ve the same problems with titles and with well-lighted, high-contrast image elements having an angle of 15 degrees or less to the horizontal…. Relatively uniform motion, such as zooming in or out, increases the probability of occurrence and I think that Stairstep and other gross artifacts are defects in codec implementation or other camcorder circuitry problems, not in the design of the DV codec or in the DCT compression process….
anyway I solved in this way using compressor:
– choose a VIDEO setting and DEINTERLACE using ALGORITHM: BLUR (usually default set to ODD)…in this way the results are not bad…try it and let me know….
MAC INTEL dual quadcore 3ghz
8gb ram
macos 10.5.5
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Thanks, I’ll give that a try. Sorry for the late response got knocked out by the flu.
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