[John Hill]

Thank you, Ricky, for your quick response and help. I feel like a doofus but you’re question got me to my answer. I should be in an HD project. I thought I could still be in an NTSC project and Pan and Zoom would not degrade my image but apparently it does. Looks perfect in 1080p.

Thanks again.

[John Hill]

You may want to switch the rendering quality on Pan+Zoom from RT (good for playback) to either Gaussian, Avid HQ or Avid Ultra HQ (all use different maths to scale the image.)

Hi Jeff,

I switched the render quality to high and it didn’t matter. My photo on the desktop is 1935×2592. Thanks!

[John Hill]

Pixel resolution is 1935×2592.

Thanks!

[John Hill]

DV/DVCPRO-NTSC.

Thanks, Shane

[John Hill]

Hi Shane,

The QT/MOV file came from a FCP 7 Project. So, for one clip, for instance, when I look at Movie Inspector, it shows the FPS at 29.62 and as it plays it jumps around…29 to 30.51 to 30 to 29.62…

Thanks…

[John Hill]

First time that ever happened to me. Fixed it by turning off raid and taking out power cords and sata cord.

[John Hill]

Happy New Year, Scott, and thanks for the reply. But, no, your suggestion did not reap benefits. Very odd to be able to play a 13 minute clip but when you Reveal File and click on that file on the hard drive you discover the clip only plays for 1 minute.
I understand there can be no ghosts with media but it may be time to call Ghostbusters.
I actually consolidated the clip from one drive to another and the same 1 minute file moved to another drive and played for 13 minutes, but using Reveal File would take me to the new drive and show me the same 1 minute clip.
Again, thanks for taking the time to help from your awesome 60 minutes work.
Best,
John

[John Hill]

John Pale, I bow down to you, can’t tell you how long I’ve struggled with and asked “gurus” about this issue and you solved it so quickly!
By your picture I’m not sure if you’re a cow or a woman serving coffee but you’re ACES in my book.
Really appreciate it.

[John Hill]

Yes, the sequence settings are what FCP creates when I place the clip in the timeline. The size on both the Pro Res and in the sequence setting is the same 720 x 480 – Sorry for the confusion about the 853×480 size of the pro res- it was in parentheses next to 720×480.

So the clip plays fine in the sequence but won’t match back correctly and stutters when playing in the Viewer.

Thanks for any further insight.

[John Hill]

Appreciate your help, Jerry –

You need to match your sequence settings to the source clips’ properties. They don’t match…

I did that…to reiterate this is my Pro Res setting: frame rate 23.98 and size 853×480.

My sequence setting has the same frame rate 23.98 and the size is 720×480 with anamorphic checked since FCP has no Sequence size to exactly match the Pro Res size of 853×480.

If I drag the Pro Res file into the sequence from its home on a firewire drive it plays perfectly in the sequence. However, when I import it into the Browser, it stutters in the Viewer.

And, if I use match back from the Timeline, it does not work correctly – matches back to a different frame. This would make it impossible to make a DVD etc.

Thanks for your help.