Michelle Weiss
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Read this post as I had a similar problem, it may be your sequence settings > My footage was looking great until it was rendered, these solutions have helped:
https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_post.cgi?forumid=8&postid=893519
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Hi Kevin,
I really appreciate the time you’ve taken to let me know about these commmon problems with quality in FCP and QT. I didn’t know about the ‘high quality’ tab in QT movie properties, so that was great to know, although I couldn’t see a discernable difference in this particular footage. If I had an internet site, I would put up screen shots for you, which I am sure could illustrate the problems I’ve been having better than me trying to describe it! As for my FCP settings, I did have all of the quality control measures in place that you mentioned in your article, so hopefully I am not a completely lost cause!
I do admit that I am working from an Apple Cinema HD display and not a video monitor, but unfortunately I work at a bank and they are not so worried about spending budget on video monitors! However, most of the work we do here is viewed by staff over an intranet on their computer screens, or else it is compressed down to DV PAL format for DVD (we film pretty much exclusively on HDV with a Sony Z1). It is only on a new project that we are utilising some wonderful 65 inch plasma screens with motion graphics advertising products and businesses, therefore the need to get top quality presentation in high def. The quality of these is fantastic when viewed on the plasma screen, even the text, which is animated and lots of it! It is just the one logo as described in earlier posts that is causing the problems. The measures suggested above have worked in increasing the quality of this logo to an acceptable level, the text surrounding the logo has always been perfect, so I am thinking it is some kind of temperamental red on blue logo compression going on. Anyhow, you are obviously an expert in FCP, your help has been very insightful for me, and I will definitely take a look at some of your tutorials and articles, to expand my mind in this area!
Thanks again, much appreciated!
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You’ve been using After Effects haven’t you? I came to Motion fairly recently from an AE background, and ran into the same problem. I don’t recall a solution being found, aside from
1) copying the properties in the inspector (scale, position etc) from each keyframe and replicating those setting on the object you want to copy the animation too. I recall lots of post-it notes with little numbers written on them.
The best advice I can give you is to
2) keyframe the layer, rather than the object/asset, so that everything within that layer has the same properties (keyframes included)-(this can cause problems when the layer size doesn’t match the asset size you are working on). You can then duplicate the layer and change the content inside it if you wanted, say, the movement but not the opacity keyframes from one layer on your new asset.
I hope that makes sense, I should leave tutorials to the experts, and I am renowned for doing everything the hard way, so if anyone can correct me, please do!
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Another user of Flip4Mac, WMV Studio Pro, for when people simply *must* have wmv format. It’s hard convincing an IT department to switch 8000+ computers to QT Player 😉 I use it through FCP, Export using QuickTime Conversion. It works for me…
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and P.S!
I should mention that I am using your advice in conjunction with Lars’ suggestion, so I have changed my Motion files to 1920×1080, square pixels (instead of 1440×1080 1.33 aspect ratio), and I am placing the motion file directly into FCP, so it is only being rendered to QT at the final stage. So yes, Lars your suggestions does help now that I have changed the sequence settings in FCP, the direct import from Motion explains the smaller file size at the end. my bad. things are chaos right now, thanks guys for your help and the small restoration to my sanity! :))
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Hey, thanks so much
There are so many factors influencing the final product! I changed the sequence settings, rendered out as h.264 QT Movie, as before (the final product is being shown via QT PLayer) and there is a noticable, (POSITIVE) change in the quality, even though the file size is smaller (6.7MB as opposed to 11MB)… I’m not here to question these things, thanks both for your help, I really appreciate it!