Johnw3d
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I’m pretty sure that the dup frames are flagged with DV user-bits in 2:3:3:2 on the 100A, so you don’t have to worry about pulldown patterns. In fact, there’s no way to set this on FCP, so it must be being driven by the user-but flags.
John.
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It’s very interesting to see several requests for scripting in this thread. I’ve been trying to get Apple to respond to overtures about getting serious scripting into FCP, but have heard not a peep. I’m interested in this, not only because I developed all the Lyric FXScript plugins and think FXScript could be made wildly better, but because I also happen to be the creator of MAXScript, the scripting language in Discreet’s 3D Studio MAX and have worked on scripting systems for 15 years, so I think I have a good idea about how much leverage it could give FCP.
Anyway, if it’s OK, I’d like to start a bit of a brainstorming thread on what scripting might mean for FCP. I’ll write a little intro and post it here in the next day or so.
BTW, I have a list of about 30 improvements ideas just for FXScript, if you are interested in that level of detail.
Cheers,
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Apart from low-res playback settings affecting Canvas display quality, poor output quality on zooms usually means you don’t have enough native resolution in the image and are zooming past a 100% crop. What is the original res of the photo? How far are you zooming in?
If you are doing a lot of pans and zooms, you might want to check out PanZoomPro, a commercial plugin from my company Lyric Media. It helps prevent zooms past 100% and does coordinated eases on pans and zooms, which are hard to do directly in FCP. You can see a bit about it at https://www.lyric.com/fcp-plugins/index.htm#pzp.
Cheers,
John.