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tv secrets: still pics on SD DV format?
I’ve looked and looked throughout the internet and i haven’t found an answer! It’s like a conspiracy!
I imported 2,000 x 2,0000 still Tiff pics into FCP and they look fine during movements in my wedding video. I understand that HD pics don’t translate well into my SD 16:9 project, but I see still photos all the time used in broadcasts all day long ie; biography channel. What do TV pros do that is different to combat this problem?
Now, I’m creating a long slideshow in FCP, by simply dragging and dropping the many pics onto the timeline. NOW the pics are very pixelated and blurry when I export them out from compressor.
what settings can i dabble with to fix this horrible jaggy look
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I am guessing from the subject line that you are using a DV codec timeline.
DV is not a good codec for stills, title & graphics. Try uncompressed 10 bit or ProRes. Also 2000 pixel images will take a lot of time to render. SD is only 720 pixels wide so your stills have to be scaled back by FCP to a third of their resolution.
[Michael Borgen]
“I’ve looked and looked throughout the internet and i haven’t found an answer! It’s like a conspiracy!”Did you search here at the Cow. Handling stills in FCP is a fairly common topic and everything I have said has been covered before.
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I’d be curious to know what you are looking at when you decide that the quality is not good enough. I use still quite often without any problem…even when working in the DV codec.
Be sure you are judging the quality of your image from an external monitor and not your computer monitor.
Robert J. Grauert, Jr.
http://www.robgrauert.com
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