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Title Pixellation in Final Cut for NTSC
I’m using purple-colored text in Arial Black font against a white background in Final Cut for NTSC. My timeline is 720×480 (NTSC DV 3:2) with an NTSC CCIR 601 setting and DV/DVCPRO-NTSC compressor.
My problem is that when I export a quicktime movie of the finished file and blow it up to full screen, the titles all look pixellated and cloudy, yet in the timeline/monitor it looks fine, and when burned to DVD it looks fine on NTSC television sets as well.
Unfortunately, a client wants the quicktime movie for Power Point presentations and thus the movie file on display at full screen looks terrible.
I’ve even tried bringing in large TIFF files from photoshop, with sharp stroke accents, but everything turns to mush when it gets blown up in quicktime.
Any advice? Another file format, perhaps?
Thanks!
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Wait!
This is going into a PPT presentation. I doubt that powerpoint is projecting the full rez of the file.
It’s probably being compressed again.d
Peace and Love 🙂
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Yes, I do mean the full screen of an NTSC monitor, but there’s a good chance the client would be using this on a projection screen for a presentation as well.
As for compressor, should I just be using Uncompressed 8 Bit 4:2:2 ?
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Why?
Do you think you can bump the quality of DV by converting it to 8 bit uncompressed. Your best bet is to stick with the DV. You might want to change the sequence to DVCPRO50 (which works int he 4:2:2 color space but that is about as much as you will want to bump it up.
David
Peace and Love 🙂
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It doesn’t seem to matter what you do…
If you are trying to export a Quicktime to be used in PowerPoint, its going to look pixelated. You have to compress your video in a format for the computer that has PowerPoint installed. Anytime you compress anything, when you blow it up (which PowerPoint does), it will look pixelated.
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[Dave LaRonde] “I see that you’re trying to use the DV codec for graphics. Don’t. DV is horrible for graphics. If your graphics aren’t animated, you can give your client a still.”
That’s kind of old school information. I use DV for graphics all the time. It’s come quite a long way in the last 6 or 7 years when this was actually a problem. And back then, it was only a problem for FCP’s DV codec, which they fixed. EditDV at the time had an amazing DV codec even back in 1999.
Most likely the problem is a 720×480 quicktime being blown up full screen to 1680×1050 or something huge. If it’s not played back exactly at 100%, then it’s going to have issues.
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