[Anastasis Lazos]

Will photoshop be better than Preview or other cheap image software for resizing and processing photos? I resized my images using Preview as i dont have photoshop installed.

And also when you say “set the screen 1:1” what setting are you exactly referring to?

thanks again!

[Anastasis Lazos]

I think i fixed it. I ve created a ProRes HQ 1920×1080 timeline and after resizing some of the large pics (i resized them close to 1920×1080 as i wont be zooming in at all), ticked a couple of things that Rafael suggested, set pixel to square and now yes when i export at these setting text and images are pristine. What a relief..

I used apple’s Preview (sorry not “viewer” i called it before) to resize them and i am curious to know if Photoshop would provide better quality when resizing…) ?

One other thing i want to clarify is this: To obtain best picture quality i believe my video should be at the same resolution as the Tv screen it ll be played on right? i.e. native resolution. Remember these videos will be playing looped at a large lcd screen in a waiting room. So if these are Full HD then that res is 1920×1080 correct?

thank you all for the device. 🙂

[Anastasis Lazos]

thank you Neal, reading..

[Anastasis Lazos]

Thanks for the help guys,

Why should i use photoshop to scale the images? I can scale, adjust apect ratio etc in fcp..I guess smaller files will help my imac go faster as its sluggish working with some of these images. I am not zooming in any of them, i actually make them smaller and place them around canvas so i could scale them down in photoshop.
Could i scale them in Viewer or will photoshop produce better quality?

Rafael i am doing what u r saying thanks, i am using fcp own text gen. Is boring gonna be better with a simple bold font no fancy stuff?
Or do i need to mess with outlines etc..?

[Anastasis Lazos]

Well i have a bunch of images, about half are high res as mentioned other lower like 800x600pixels but i scale them (make them smaller) in my canvas since text sits next to them. So maybe they ll be ok on a HD timeline. Do you think i could make this on a HD sequence? What codec should i use to do this HD

Now, i changed field dominance to None. No difference. The only time i see pristine text and images is when i am on the animation codec timeline with material unrendered.
For example there is an image of a newspaper for example (scanned old paper). On the animation timeline (unrendered) i can read the little lines…
HELP!!

[Anastasis Lazos]

also tried on an Uncompressed 8bit timeline. Same as above. (i.e. i unrendered is as bad as rendered and export also crap).

[Anastasis Lazos]

In a ProRes 422 sequence image and text is crap even when unrendered..
Same export results..

Am i missing something?
Final video needs to be PAL 16:9 and will be played in some large LCD TVs.

I created a new sequence and set compression codec to Apple ProRes 422 as you suggested, frame size 720×576, what should i select from the aspect ratio drop down menu? I went for CCIR 601 / DV PAL (5:4) and also set the Pixel apsect ratio to PAL – CCIR 601 (720×576), field dominance Lower and ticked anamorphic box. Is this correct?

also i made sure images and text are sitting on even numbers (basic motion properties) and also no decimal places in motion tab numbers too..

[Anastasis Lazos]

sorry stupid question, need some more coffee..
The gap on left and right appears since the image is 4:3 (didnt say the film given on tape is 16:9 but they have added bars top bottom so it ends as 4:3) and my mac screen is 16:9..
never mind..!

[Anastasis Lazos]

Thank you Nick for the info,
I ll check them out.
Anastasis

[Anastasis Lazos]

Thanks Walter for the reply,
A while back I looked into extracting subtitles from FCp into a subtitle file that u can import into DVDSP. I hope i can find out again with a bit of googling..
thanks 🙂