[Geoffrey Plitt]

Yay! Exactly what I needed, and this also enhanced my limited understanding of composting and display modes. Thanks a ton Stephan.

-G

[Geoffrey Plitt]

Andrew–

THANKS, that’s exactly what i was looking for! Ok that’s a first step. I just tried it with one clip, and I used the clap-slate to sync and assigned the aux timecode.

NEXT STEP – the instance on the timeline where this is used has in/out points somewhere in the middle, and actually there are 30 instances of this clip. Is there an easy way to replace all instance of one media with another, without copy-pasting all of the in/out points?

BASCIALLY, i want to say “for these 30 instances of the same clip on the timeline, keep all in out points, but just use hiquality1.wav instead of lowquality1.wav”, and of course use the AUX timecode so they are synce correctly.

-g

[Geoffrey Plitt]

i guess that works. but if i then want to tweak the settings, i have to tweak it in each one. it basically creates a bunch of “copies” of the effect, that are then independent. it would be nice if it created “links” to a single effect, which you could change in one place and effect all of them.

[Geoffrey Plitt]

update: i think i understand the problem now, and i’m hoping somebody knows the solution.

The project is HDV1080i. Most of the footage in the project has that setting. But this screen-capture clip is NOT interlaced. So I believe the “Basic Motion” scale operation is expecting interlaced footage.

I tried changing the field dominance settings of the project and the clip, in every combination, and the artifacts changed, but nothing that looked better. I applied a FlickerFilter-Max, and it looks a lot better. But still not good. I wish there was a FlickerFilter that could go past max.

Anybody know about mixing progressive footage into an interlaced project?

g

[Geoffrey Plitt]

It shouldn’t make a difference, but they’re both the same HD resolution.

One more clarification: I’m not concerned with lower quality in my RT quick renders. This is happening in my final render. However, there must be a setting somewhere that is lowering the quality.

Whenever you zoom-in a raster graphic, there are several algorithms to do it (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicubic_interpolation). Photoshop seems to be using bicubic, whereas Final Cut seems to be using bilinear.

Is there a different setting, or effect, or plugin to get better results from Final Cut?

I’m going to go re-check every single quality setting that could be affecting the clip.