Kylee Pena
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What codec is the file you’re trying to import?
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Are you only viewing your export on your computer monitor? Try viewing it on an external monitor, or just send it to DVD and go stick it in a DVD player and watch it on your TV. Computer screens are progressive and TVs are interlaced, so your computer screen is displaying both fields at once. It looks like VLC is compensating for this by blending or eliminating one of the fields.
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First: did you happen to view your project on an external monitor? You can’t quite judge the way your text looks on a computer screen when it’s being made for viewing on a tv. Also, is your viewer at 100%? If it’s smaller, it can give the illusion of bad text.
However, I suspect that you’ll still have some icky looking text even after viewing in these ways (even if it’s not quite so bad) due to the DV codec. Is all the footage you’re cutting different formats? What is the sequence codec? Does it look bad when playing back the sequence within FCP, or just upon export? If it looks bad in FCP and you’re editing with the DV codec, you’ll need to switch that to something else, like ProRes. If it just looks bad when you export it, try exporting it with a lossless codec instead of DV and see how that works for you.
Your font choice and size shouldn’t be the issue. Using 100% white could possibly cause some problems, you’ll want to make sure the white is in a legal range.
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What kind of footage, what codec, and what are you exporting to? What font and size are you using? Is the text 100% white? Does it look OK when you view it on a computer, but bad on a tv monitor?
From my experience, text can be tricky and there are a few things that can cause it to look like crap. Choosing a bigger, chunkier, sans serif font can help. For example, when it comes to DVD, anything less than 18pt is generally not a great idea.
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I think Ken Stone can answer this better than me, he has nifty screenshots.
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/qt_h-264_movies_fcp.html
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Check out the jvc gy-hm100u. I think it meets all your requirements and I use it frequently with no issues.
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Two ways:
Double click on the clip in the timeline to activate it in the Viewer, then click on the motion tab and change the rotation there.
Or..
On the top center of the Canvas, the far right drop down (looks like a square), change that to Image + Wireframe and change the rotation position by dragging the video in the Canvas.
You’ll probably also need to adjust the scale a little to make the video fill the frame completely again.
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I have been reading about hdslr usage for a while now and I don’t feel that I’m any sort of expert, but this sounds like a bad idea. It seems to me like you really have to know what you’re doing to adapt a workflow and get quality work, and while the shots you can get are outstanding, it’s still a lot more work. There are a number of problems with shooting video with these cameras still that people are still developing and researching. It doesn’t seem realistic for daily jobs to be using these unless you are really devoted to making it work I guess. I think the 20 fps is going to cause messes, and don’t these cameras generally only have a shot duration of like 15 minutes or something lower? That could mess you up too.
I would go get another camera that could do 1080i and forget the T1i.
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Use the timeline patch panel. This link has pictures, which explains it better than words only:
https://www.larryjordan.biz/articles/lj_timeline_patch_panel.html
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Yea, that’s the only thing with prores, the files are much bigger, and no, as far as I know there’s nothing to be done about it. However, it’s worth it to be able to edit things, so I would invest in a good external that isn’t usb. What’s a few gigs in the land of terabytes?