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Title Crawl created in Photoshop looks funky
For a Pal DV project I created a 756 X 2063 photoshop layer(mix of text and logos), changed the image size to 720 X 2063, imported it into FCP 4.5 loaded a sequence onto a timeline, clicked the layer into the viewer, placed this clip from the viewer onto another timeline, resized the 23 percent file to 100 percent in the motion window and made keyframes(pressing control K) for the start and end of the crawl. The letters seem to waver somewhat, while viewing on a PAL CRT monitor. I don’t know if this is normal PAL flicker, but they just don’t look as smooth as I think they should. Wondering if having to scale up the clip in the viewer is causing a problem Any suggestions? Did not want to use the built in FCP crawl function because of logos and precise spacing. Thank you.
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Use 720 X… whatever you need. Then if the roll is over black, lower the opacity to say 95 or so and make sure the color is all legal, and also put a layer of Noise generated from the Generator’s button in the Viewer. Lower it’s opacity to 2. You won’t see it, but the codec will and the render will look a bunch smoother. DV and moving graphics over black is one of the hardest things to make look good I think. But the above is what I’ve used now for a long time and have much better results over all…
Don’t use FCP to resize anything with the file either. It won’t do nearly as well if it’s the right size in the first place.
Jerry
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Jerry: Thank you for the great info. Wow.
I still have a couple of questions:
“Use 720 X… whatever you need.”
What is 720X? Is this zoom?
“Don’t use FCP to resize anything with the file either. It won’t do nearly as well if it’s the right size in the first place.”
Because the photoshop layer is so long, say 2000 pixels when I click from the FCP/ Photo Shop sequence clip back up to the viewer, and then drag it back onto my main editing timeline, I end up having to resize the frame from say 20 percent to 100 percent, because
FCP is trying to make my file 480 long instead of 2000. I must be doing something wrong here.Also wondering if constructing this thing in After Effects might look a whole lot better.
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The main reason it’s not looking good is because of your rendering settings and/or your timeline settings. Also, you should also be monitoring your video monitor, never mind the computer monitor.
Sequence > Render > Make sure all the qualities are checked.
RT Pop Up menu set to Safe RT > Full Frame (not dynamic) and High quality.
Finally, judge what you see only in the video monitor, not the computer monitor.
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Thank you Jerry, worked out great.
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