[Alexus]

there is a really clear explanation of how this is done in the FCP manual. Its done using a colour corrector filter.
good luck

[Alexus]

hey,

ive had this problem recently too.

i was recieving hires animated QT movies that were meant to be 25fps (PAL). QT read each one differently. Sometimes with weird frame rates like 13.6 or 10. When i looked at the properties of the files in FCP, it read that they were all 25fps.

all the files looked fine and played back ok.

what’s the story with QT? this IS a worry when you are trying to work to specs.

[Alexus]

once 16:9 has been letterboxed, the frame size becomes 4:3. if this is rendered out as a self contained clip, you cant make it 16:9 again.
the picture has been shrunk and distorted, to fit in a 4:3 frame, so putting it back into a 16:9 frame will distort it again, and make it look fat. even if you just increased the scale of the letterboxed pic and ‘un’distorted it, (so the black disapeared at the top and bottom and the picture touched the sides) you will have reduced the quality of your picture by doing so.

the only solution i can think of (if you need to use this footage) is to crop the picture size (set up new dimensions in your sequence settings, so the frame size is only as large as the actual picture, ie it does not incorporate the letterboxing).
the final movie that you output, will be 16:9 dimensions, however, it will also be smaller than your 16:9 footage.

leterboxing looks great. maybe you should think of incorporating some 4:3 letterboxing if you are going to be receiving files with this frame size?

[Alexus]

im in australia

frame rate: 25fps, PAL, Blackmagic Codec (16:9 anamorphic), Decklink, outputing to digibeta.

the text ‘image’ was created in Photoshop.

PSDoc. specs: 1024 x 576 @ 72 dpi. (im thinking that the answer to this problem could lie here. Maybe this should be set to CCIR 601 DV PAL widescreen? (same as FCP sequence settings)

let me know what you think?

thanks

[Alexus]

thanks, but we haven/t been using FCP for this scroll. it was generated in photoshop, and brought in as a tiff file. the image was then animated with 2 keyframes to give a scroll effect.

its the movement of this ‘image’ that looks dodgy. although it is one clean movement from one keyframe at the beginning to one at the end (to give the scroll effect) the titles continue to rumble along like an old truck. its jsut like that actually. like the text image is moving over a rough surface.

?????

[Alexus]

Just click on the clip you want to move and press “+” or “-” then how many frame you want to move. eg: to move a clip 4 frames forward press “+4” then enter

[Alexus]

Yes the sequence is set to render non-interlaced. ( no dominant field is set on either the clips or sequence ) and the original animations are rendered out without any interlacing.
I am viewing it on a Sony broadcast monitor and a normal television.
I will try the 1 pixel virtical motion blur and get back to you.
The timeline and clips are in Blackmagic 8 Bit (2Vuy) and it outputting through the decklink card to a Digi Betacam deck and the Broadcast monitor.
The image is just white text (with purple stroke) and a couple of small graphics. It is scrolling over an animated background. I have also tried it without any BG so it’s just on black and it doesn’t help.

[Alexus]

Sorry, I should have explained a little better. The project is an animation, there is no interlacing. It is possible that the white may be too bright, I’ll have a look. I don’t think that is what’s causing it though.
What I have done is create a credits sequence which is quite long, as a single image in photoshop which I then saved as a Tiff with transparancy so I could scroll it over my existing BG in Final Cut. The reason I did this in photoshop was I wanted to get a specific look for the text and the credits also included some small images, this seemed to be the best solution.
The problem I am having is, when I scroll it in final cut it seems to jitter slightly. ( almost looks like interlacing ) It may be caused by the speed it is scrolling as I tried scrolling a small section and it looked much better. When the text is not moving it is quite clear and legible but when it is scrolling, the slight jittering makes it hard to read. I thought it may just be that Final Cut’s motion may not be the the right tool for this so I tried do the same thing in After FX and bring the rendered animation back into FCP to output, but the result was not much better. I
I think that it must just be that it is scrolling too fast for the frame rate or something and I’m probably just stuck with it.

[Alexus]

the scroll is white text with a purple stroke which is on top of a layer of purple BG (gradient). this is all graphic work generated in photoshop. It is rendered with the Black Magic codec (anamorphic).
any suggestions?