[Nanako Kurihara]

Rafael, I fixed a couple of things and it looks much better now. Finally I proceed to output the sequence in a QT movie file with the current settings!

QT movie uncompressed 8 bit 720×486 threw me into a hell hole initially. But because of this I learned greatly. Thank you very much for helping me figuring this out. I rose from hell to almost heaven in spiral!

Nanako

P.S. I didn’t realize that you are in Laos. A new Asia connection! Cheers!

[Nanako Kurihara]

Thank you, Rafael!

A picture, especially subtitles, in a 200 percent canvas window on my computer, looks as bad as in the 23 inch monitor. Doesn’t this suggest that the sequence picture itself has a problem now, instead of a monitor calibration issue?

I am so eager to make sure that the sequence itself is fine!

Thank you for being so kind and patient.

Nanako

[Nanako Kurihara]

Hi Rafael, Thank you so much for a further advice. Yes, I am watching on a Mitsubishi LCD external monitor.

Mitsubishi monitor spec site (but in Japanese except numbers)
https://www.mitsubishielectric.co.jp/home/display/product/standard/rdt232wlm/spec.html

I did follow your instructions and made a ProRes 422 sequence. Their subtitles looked in the same poor quality on the monitor, while in 100 percent canvas window they both looked perfect. (in 200 percent they got blurred.)

Meanwhile, I burnt this sequence onto a DVD and watched it. The subtitles looked OK without those edges, although image quality is not as great as I would like it to be.

This is just a MONITOR issue? Or do I have a REAL problem? I didn’t understand what your instruction aims to accomplish, since I am unfamiliar with these different formats. Could you explain it?

Thank you again.

Nanako

[Nanako Kurihara]

Shane, Rafael, Thank you. I understood WHAT IT IS finally.

Meanwhile, I have this larger problem. The media itself of this whole project on FCP seemingly corrupt-looking, that is, as if corrugated sheets were thinly laid out DIAGONALLY (you can see edges, for examples along a roof in the footage), especially obvious with subtitles, looking blurred. It happens not only when looking at a sequence and but also when looking at a single media in a viewer.

Initially it didn’t look like this with diagonal lines at all. So something must have happened since then. Two things I can think of which might have affected like this might be:

1 I moved media files from one hard drive to another, since the older hard drive had a problem.

2 I started a new HDV project on the same FCP.

Could you figure this out? This project I worked on for five years plus finally has a chance to be turned into a DVD. If you could help me on this, I’d really appreciate it.

[Nanako Kurihara]

Hi Shane and Rafael, Thank you for the responses.

I realize this existence of 6 difference finally, Shane.

Rafael, To change the sequence setting to 486 means to “uncompressed NTSC”? Does that mean to start all over again from capturing the footage and so forth? Or do you have a better idea than that?

Are you guys suggesting that the sequence edited DV/DVCPRO can’t be output as it is uncompressed by pushing a button?

I am rather confused.

I am supposed to give a uncompressed sequence file to a person who does authoring DVD. What is the best format to output to if uncompressed doesn’t work? Thanks.

Nanako

[Nanako Kurihara]

Thank you very much, Noah.

Nanako

[Nanako Kurihara]

Thank you, Noah! I will go for it.

Nanako