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Titles Look Awful
I’m creating titles in Livetype and bringing them into FCP.
When I bring them into FCP and open them in the viewer window they look great, but when I drop them onto the timeline and look at them in the canvas, they look awful. All jagged/pixelated around the edges. What’s the problem? Is it something in my sequence settings? I’m working in a 720×960 timeline.Thanks
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You are working with 720×960? Do you mean 960×720…and is this DVCPRO HD or HDV?
#50 – Quality difference between Viewer and Canvas
Shane’s Stock Answer #49 – Why is the quality different between what I see in the Viewer and what I see in the Canvas?
Well… the viewer is just that– a viewer. It will display anything that fcp will recognize as usable video or graphics. The canvas is a viewer too, but at the pixel dimension specified by the settings of your project and sequence.
For example, if your graphic or footage is much higher resolution than your 720×480 DV sequence, FCP is interpolating down your file to fit the settings of the sequence. Usually this makes it look not so hot. DV is a 5:1 compression working with a 4:1:1 color depth. Your pristine picture images and graphics are being crushed.
Same with picture files. HIgh res pics now adopt the sequence settings and will render to those specs, and most likely they are not as high quality.
Shane
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960×720 DVV Pro HD.
Stock answer #49 makes sense and is something I anticipate, but I think they look worse than that.
Maybe I’m just being too critical…
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They actually look quite a bit cleaner when I use the same font and do them right in FCP.
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Sam,
Your LiveType settings do not sound like they are proper for HD. LiveType comes defaulted to DV file dimensions and has to be set manually to create text sizes for HD.
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No, I have Livetype settings configured the same as my sequence setting in FCP.. That is for DVC Pro HD.
They just don’t look clean to me, but maybe I’m just being over sensitive to it..
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What pixel aspect ratio are you using in LiveType?
All the best,
Tom
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1.33 Pixel aspect
And the field dominance is set to none.
sam
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I’ll have to let Shane answer if that’s the right value. I don’t work with DVCPRO HD, but it seems high to me. Normally 16:9 in LT uses 1.25. When you put the LT project into the FCP timeline, is it being scaled or the aspect ratio adjusted at all.
All the best,
Tom
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They probably look awful but are fine. The key is in how are you monitoring your graphics. Are you using an external monitor? If not, is your Canvas set to 100% precisely? Try those two things first.
Kevin Monahan
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In the past, I have had to make sure titles were placed on whole/even numbers.
(example 4 instead of 3.56) or the scan lines would make them appear fuzzy.I don’t worry about that as much anymore, but I still keep to that just in case, its a habit now.
I remember back when I used to use LiveType and remember having some problems that you describe.
My suggestion is to use Motion instead of LiveType.Todd Reid
Senior Editor
Digitized Media, Inc.
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