[Maria-luisa Meredith]

Ah, excellent. Thank you very much for your reply, just wanted to be sure which way to go with it all.

M

Macbook Pro / OSX 10.6.4 / 2.4GHz Intel Core i5 / 4GB 1067 MHz DDR3

FCP Studio 7.0.2

[Maria-luisa Meredith]

Well that makes sense but it’s also something I know very well, ‘Make movie self-contained’ must have been unchecked and I didn’t notice! User Error! Thanks Rafael.

M

Macbook Pro / OSX 10.6.4 / 2.4GHz Intel Core i5 / 4GB 1067 MHz DDR3

FCP Studio 7.0.2

[Maria-luisa Meredith]

Hi Dave

Thanks for your input. It seems a pity that high quality work has to look less good on delivery (unfortunately the AV company who are going to run this one don’t have Bluray playback). Out of interest would a Bluray DVD improve my issue with the graphics and text?

I just wanted to be absolutely certain that some innocuous setting somewhere in my SD DVD workflow was not causing my text to lose quality like this.

Thanks again.

M

Macbook Pro / OSX 10.6.4 / 2.4GHz Intel Core i5 / 4GB 1067 MHz DDR3

FCP Studio 7.0.2

[Maria-luisa Meredith]

Hi

I just played the DVD in an old DVD player on a CRT TV and it looks good, not as crisp as the Pro Res QT’s but ok.

The ghosting is more than just the expected jagged edge text, it looks as though there is noise around the lettering of the title 3D text and the vector logos.

M

Macbook Pro / OSX 10.6.4 / 2.4GHz Intel Core i5 / 4GB 1067 MHz DDR3

FCP Studio 7.0.2

[Maria-luisa Meredith]

Hi

Here are the details you asked about:

Frame Rate? 25fps
Progressive or Interlaced? Recorded 1440 x 1080 HDV 50i.
16×9 or 4×3 on the DVD? 16:9.
DVD playback device displaying the ghosting? Sony Bluray DVD player via 2K digital projector.

What will the ultimate playback device be? As above.

Does this clarify where my issue lie at all? Many thanks,

M

Macbook Pro / OSX 10.6.4 / 2.4GHz Intel Core i5 / 4GB 1067 MHz DDR3

FCP Studio 7.0.2

[Maria-luisa Meredith]

Hi

Thanks for your response, I tried reducing the frame size of the graphics (created by someone else) in Photoshop first but as they’re not exactly 16:9 I couldn’t get exactly 1920 x 1080. I’ll try to do that with some cropping though.

Thanks again,

M

Macbook Pro / OSX 10.6.4 / 2.4GHz Intel Core i5 / 4GB 1067 MHz DDR3

FCP Studio 7.0.2

[Maria-luisa Meredith]

Thanks so much for all the responses, really helpful stuff!!

M

Macbook Pro / OSX 10.6.4 / 2.4GHz Intel Core i5 / 4GB 1067 MHz DDR3

FCP Studio 7.0.2

[Maria-luisa Meredith]

Thanks again for responses. Re my clip, there’s a brightness/contrast and auto level filter, a one second fade in fade out at the start and end. Is there no way to have a second lower res sequence within the same project?

M

Macbook Pro / OSX 10.6.4 / 2.4GHz Intel Core i5 / 4GB 1067 MHz DDR3

FCP Studio 7.0.2

[Maria-luisa Meredith]

Hi Shane
Thanks for the reply, I’m giving that a go right now…but still this 12 minute sequence wants ‘about an hour’ just to render!! Could this be an issue with my Mac?
M

Macbook Pro / OSX 10.6.4 / 2.4GHz Intel Core i5 / 4GB 1067 MHz DDR3

FCP Studio 7.0.2

[Maria-luisa Meredith]

Thanks so much for the responses and suggestions, will give them a try.

M

Macbook Pro / OSX 10.6.4 / 2.4GHz Intel Core i5 / 4GB 1067 MHz DDR3

FCP Studio 7.0.2