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Ugly Photoshop Renders in FCP
I’m animating a television show in final cut pro with flattened photoshop documents (not layers). We start with an oversized (3600×2025) file so that we can zoom in for our various coverage – WS/MS/CU, etc. We’re working in a 1280×720 frame size for 720p HD. We’ll build our animated sequence (lip sync, small eye movements blink, etc.) to perfection. Then render. Unrendered, all the files are moving correctly. Upon rendering, things get pretty freaky. Frames become static instead of animated, wide shots turn into closeups, the wrong character’s lips are moving, etc. things like that.
As a work around, we tried re-rendering, we tried selecting the offending clip and hitting return to load it into the viewer then RE-cut it into the sequence and re-render…..sometimes these things work but it often takes multiple tries. Any thoughts? All I can keep thinking is something about how final cut pro works with still images and also that we’re not really using fcp for what it was intended for. Thanks.Final Cut Studio 2 (FCP v.6.0.2) on a MacPro Dual 2.66, 4 gig of ram, Black Magic intensity card, Graid external firewire 800 for storage.
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Try PNG files instead of PSD. Since you’re not using layers, there’s no reason to use PSD. PNG is uncompressed and preserves transparency. Everything will run smoother and render 10 times faster. PSD files cause a tremendous strain on Final Cut, especially at that size. And in my experience Final Cut doesn’t handle them well.
Sean
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