Daxbedell
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This makes sense, I do have a video track that is turned off in this particular sequence. I discovered another way to fix this before I read your post, and that is to just embed the sequence in another sequence and then output that to tape. When I did it this way, it also did not require a render. Thanks for the input. I’m glad it is a legitimate bug and I’m not just going crazy. 🙂
Dax Bedell
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Even if I turn off all leader elements it still does it. And it is not the mixdown audio. That would be quick. It seems like it is rerendering every effect and transition. Would it have anything to do with me rendering in 8bit YUV instead of High precision YUV?
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I have positioned my video on an even scan line already and it has no effect. Also, I have viewed this on a CRT monitor and the problem is still there. This is not a subtle stairstepping. Like I said, it looks as if I rendered it at half resolution. The preview looks sharper and less pixelated than when I render, which I feel shouldn’t be the case.
Dax
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Thank you for all the advice. While I certainly could do it in After Effects, I feel as if there is something wrong with a setting or something in my system that is causing this problem. Let me go into a bit more detail.
I am trying to do a simple picture in picture effect in a particular sequence. I am using the Kona 3 card and monitering on a Panasonic professional LCD broadcast monitor. All of my clips were captured using Kona presets for Uncompressed SD 8bit 4:2:2. In my sequence settings, motion filter quality is set to “best” and all options are checked under the render control tab. Frame rate and resolution are both set to 100% and field dominance is set to Lower(Even). RT is set to Unlimited and everything underneath is set to full quality. When I scale down the video, the bar at the top of the timeline turns green (preview) and it looks pretty okay on playback. When I render that clip, it looks worse than the preview; as if I had rendered it with resolution set to 50% in the sequence settings. One interesting note, if I change my sequence settings to progressive frames (no field dominance) and render the clip again it looks great. But as long as the field dominance is set to something other than none, the scaled video looks terrible. I have tried deleting my preferences and restarting and all that. Totally stumped. Can someone else try this and see if they get similar results. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.
Dax Bedell
WEDU-TV Tampa, FL -
Thank you for all the advice. While I certainly could do it in After Effects, I feel as if there is something wrong with a setting or something in my system that is causing this problem. Let me go into a bit more detail.
I am trying to do a simple picture in picture effect in a particular sequence. I am using the Kona 3 card and all of my clips were captured using their presets for Uncompressed SD 8bit 4:2:2. In my sequence settings, motion filter quality is set to “best” and all options are checked under the render control tab. Frame rate and resolution are both set to 100% and field dominance is set to Lower(Even). RT is set to Unlimited and everything underneath is set to full quality. When I scale down the video, the bar at the top of the timeline turns green (preview) and it looks pretty okay on playback. When I render that clip, it looks worse than the preview; as if I had rendered it with resolution set to 50% in the sequence settings. One interesting note, if I change my sequence settings to progressive frames (no field dominance) and render the clip again it looks great. But as long as the field dominance is set to something other than none, the scaled video looks terrible. I have tried deleting my preferences and restarting and all that. Totally stumped. Can someone else try this and see if they get similar results. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.
Dax Bedell
WEDU-TV Tampa, FL -
All the jaggedness is on a rendered segment. It actually looks better before I render it if you can believe that. Also all of my render controls are set to 100%. I am stumped as to why this is looking so bad. It looks as if I rendered it at half res.
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My field order is fine, all lower on my captured media and in my timeline. Is there really no one else that has this problem? I feel like I’m taking crazy pills!
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I could do it in after effects, but I just want to put one piece of video on top of another, like Picture in Picture. As soon as I make the video smaller, it gets jagged. And actually, Motion does the same thing. If I scale a clip in Motion, it looks just as bad as if I did it in Final Cut.
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I am monitoring on an external monitor. And the video I scale looks jagged. It seems like I shouldn’t have to add blur to make something not look jagged. It’s not just during the move either. If the video is locked in one place but scaled to say 50%, it looks like you put something half res in there and blew it up. All of this on my professional external monitor.
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Ahhh! I see.. I did not know that it only edits in 59.94. I think then that getting the little Aja converters will be fine. But riddle me this… to mix this footage with 24p HDCAM footage, does the Kona 3 remove the pulldown on capture or add pulldown to the HDCAM footage? THanks for all the help.
Bob, would you mind contacting me in the real world. I would like to get all these little issues ironed out and talk about getting a quote from you. 813-254-9338 x2278 Thanks.
Dax Bedell
WEDU-TV Tampa, FL