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Why does this image look so bad…
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It’s 1280×720. There shouldn’t be any anamorphic compression.
All the best,
Tom
Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP6,” “Basic Training for FCS2” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
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Can you explain this in a little more detail:
“Can you open the captured quicktime file in QT player and export a still from there?”
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This is happening with all of my footage.
Even stuff I shot with mini-dv 4 years ago.
Any project I open, when I go to export it with QuickTime Coversion, it instantly gets blotchy.
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Obviously, I would love to find the real solution to this problem.
In the meantime, is there another way to get a still image out without using quicktime conversion?
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Someone suggested exporting a QT movie and making the freeze frame in the QuickTime player.
I have to say that I’ve looked at a couple of different types of media and have not been able to reproduce what you’re seeing. The export is identical to the original. So much so that I can cut it back into the video without seeing any difference in FCP.
Perhaps you can give us you full procedure and details of what’s going on in your sequence. What’s the media? Where’d it come from? What did you do to it in FCP? Anything that might shed some light on why this is happening to you. Basically if it can’t be reproed it can’t be fixed.
All the best,
Tom
Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP6,” “Basic Training for FCS2” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 3.5 HD Editing Workshop” -
I deleted all the render files.
I then did a still image export. All blotchy.
I rerendered the timeline.
I then did a still image export. All blotchy.
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Tom,
First, thank you so much for taking the time to try and solve this with me.
Take a look at these two pictures:
https://www.offstagefilms.com/images/picture%201.jpg
In the first picture, you can see my sequence settings and you can also see the quality of the image.
https://www.offstagefilms.com/images/picture%202.jpg
In the second picture, all I have done, is opened the file – export – using quicktime conversion window (I haven’t even selected anything yet, and you can see the image quality in the canvas has deteriorated and gotten blotchy.
Any thoughts? What else can I tell you that might be helpful?
Chris
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he’s cutting in DVCPRO-HD, so it is an anamorphic format, but it’s damn hard to actually see the squeeze since QT automatically detects it.
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OK, I finally had a minute to look at the still you posted. My immediate response was that this artefacting is from the horizontal scaling of DVCPro HD. Sure enough, I see you’re using DVCPro HD.
Here’s 2 ideas to try- I don’t know if either will work, & I’m not on an FCP 6 system to try them on.
1- Park your playhead over a frame and type Shift-N to make a freeze frame in the viewer. Export a still from the viewer.
2- Make an empty timeline set to 720, uncompressed 8 or 10 bit. In your working timeline, park the playhead over a frame and double click to load it into the viewer, then edit that shot into the empty timeline. Export a still from there.
Arnie
Now in post: Peristroika, a film by Slava Tsukerman
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So it is DVCPRO HD squeezed material. Yeah, it looks like compression artifacting. You say it’s happening to you with DV material as well though.
I have 6.0.2 with QT7.3. I don’t have any DVCRP HD material at hand. What happens when you export the file and bring it back into FCP and cut it next to the same frame you’re taking it from. Do you see any difference?
All the best,
Tom
Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP6,” “Basic Training for FCS2” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 3.5 HD Editing Workshop”
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