why r my clips importing pixelated in fcp?

[Tom Wolsky]

If you play a 320×240 Cinepak AVI at 15fps it will look great in the QuickTime player. if you play it in an HD FCP sequence not so much any more.

All the best,

Tom

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[Pedro Prates]

hey tom, chris, john and kevin. thank u all for your feedback. the tip about monitoring and quicktime nicely showing otherwise poor footage in fcp was key.

i used compressor to blow up a regular dv import to 720p resolution. it looked good enough in quicktime to be used for this job, so i just retouched it in color to make a good base track. only in fcp did this turn sour.

i need to turn in 720p, and this colleague had an older footage of exactly what i was in need of. this meant i didn’t have to go on the field to get new footage… i am kind of hoping this can still be solved, do you think it’s possible?

how can i make my footage look as good in fcp as it does in quicktime?
it’s on prores, 720p. is there any setting in fcp that can make this happen?
or any way to recompress the initial dv to make this work?

cheers,
p.p

[John Fishback]

When you upscaled in Compressor, did you have Frame Controls on (in the Frame Controls tab of the Inspector) and the Resize Filter set to Best? If not, try that on a short clip to see if it helps. It should improve the scaling of the clip.

John

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[Pedro Prates]

hey!

tried all sorts of different combinations, didn’t know about the frame controls, thanks. it seems like the differences still aren’t enough though, it still looks pixelated. here’s a screen cap of the three best candidates.

is there a way for me to get the quicktime quality in fcp? if it’s not to much to ask, can you please explain why fcp can’t show the same quality as quicktime?

cheers,
p.p

[Pedro Prates]

hey, i hope u still see this, cause i have a big question on something i found… on an earlier draft i had an acceptable outcome, and the only difference i notice is that instead of prores i used the aic by mistake… isn’t this supposed to be an obsolete codec? how can i choose my settings in prores to make it look like the aic convert? is this possible, or even interesting? should i stick with aic? thank u for your time with all of this, here is a cap of the two clips side by side in image and numbers.

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