wide screen filter not sharp

[Russell Lasson]

Does it help if you change your timeline to have a field dominance of “none” instead of “upper” or “lower”? What if you change the field dominance of the clip?

-Russ

Russell Lasson
Kaleidoscope Pictures
Provo, UT

[Jordan Lannng]

No change the letterbox isn’t perfectly sharp.

Has anyone else experienced this before? Maybe I could make one in photoshop and at that on top of my footage?

Thanks,

Jordan

[Gary Adcock]

[Jordan Lannng] “When I place the wide screen filter on a clip, one or two lines of pixels are not sharp where the letter box meets the video. I’m looking at this on a Panasonic 700WP monitor from an aja io hd. I’m looking to have the letterbox razor sharp”

Since I can find no reference to the Monitor you speak of, are we to assume that it is SD? Or is this a computer monitor? if what signal are you sending out of the IoHD/

in either case the I am going to guess that what you are seeing something from the interlaced image you are trying to view, if you are up-converting the image to HD it will not ever really be as sharp as you expect, if you are looking at an SD image on a computer monitor -it too will never look as good since the image is actually 2 separate fields vying to play at the same time.

Why don’t you tell us what you are actually doing – and forestal the guessing.

gary adcock
Studio37
HD & Film Consultation
Post and Production Workflows
Inside look at the IoHD

[Jordan Lannng]

Sorry for the confusion, I will try to explain this the best I can. The very edge of the letter box seems soft and not a razor sharp line. I am finishing a project that was brought in at uncompressed 8bit 720 x 486 29.97 NTSC this is what I am looking at on the monitor . I am viewing on a Panasonic BT-LH1700W monitor connected SDI. This runs through a aja io HD box. My problem happens when I try to place the wide screen filter on a clip I don’t have any other effects or speed changes on these clips just the wide screen filter. I’m setting the filter to 1.78:1 The border is set to 0 and feather edges is unchecked

Thanks,

Jordan

Mac Pro 8 core
8 gb ram
mac os x 10.5.3
final cut 6.0.3

[Gary Adcock]

[Jordan Lannng] “My problem happens when I try to place the wide screen filter on a clip I don’t have any other effects or speed changes on these clips just the wide screen filter”

you do understand that the quality is variable and is based on the settings in your timeline.

set it to SAFE RT and render the image out – does it still look bad?

[Jordan Lannng] ” I am viewing on a Panasonic BT-LH1700W monitor connected SDI. This runs through a aja io HD box.”

Sorry – but get a cheap CRT to judge SD materials – the LCD you are working on does a rather poor job of rendering SD material — it is de-interlacing your footage to allow it to be shown it on a Progressive monitor like the 1700 you are using.

gary adcock
Studio37
HD & Film Consultation
Post and Production Workflows
Inside look at the IoHD