[Paul Nevison]

jagged edges on clips once you move them in 3D is a fact of life with FCP 4.5 and below…this has been drastically improved in fcp 5 from what i have seen.

the only way to get around the jagged edges is to use a 3rd party app like after effects or boris red.

if the video you are moving with the basic 3d filter is against black or another solid colour you could try masking your video, making sure the mask is the same colour as your background to hide the mask. could be a way to hide the jagged edges.

the artifacts you are seeing will look worse in your canvas than if you previewed to a broadcast monitor – as noted above by gunner.

Not that i work for apple or anything but the general improvements in version 5 are well worth the upgrade IMHO.

system 1 G5DP 2.0 / 2.0G RAM / OS 10.3.8 / QT 6.5.2 / FCP HD 4.5 / CineWave 4.7 / Cinewave RT Pro/ Pro Digital Plus & Pro Analogue BOB

[Paul Nevison]

upgrade to final cut pro 5 and say goodbye to jagged edges….

improved scaling and rotation one of the best – though unsung feature improvements of the new version

system 1 G5DP 2.0 / 2.0G RAM / OS 10.3.8 / QT 6.5.2 / FCP HD 4.5 / CineWave 4.7 / Cinewave RT Pro/ Pro Digital Plus & Pro Analogue BOB

[Paul Nevison]

there was a bug with this command in fcp 4.5 where it wouldnt paste the keyframes – you had to manually highlight filters and drag them to the new clip on the timeline…anyone with fcp5 know if this has been fixed?

system 1 G5DP 2.0 / 2.0G RAM / OS 10.3.8 / QT 6.5.2 / FCP HD 4.5 / CineWave 4.7 / Cinewave RT Pro/ Pro Digital Plus & Pro Analogue BOB

[Paul Nevison]

hey walter,

good to see you are a head cow over here now….i’m looking into the kona 2 to replace our cinewave – feel like im following you down the technology road!!!

out of interest in your HD work how have you found the cinema display? is it up to the job? its not a crt hd monitor and it never will be but is there any usefulness beyond the apple hype?

system 1 G5DP 2.0 / 2.0G RAM / OS 10.3.8 / QT 6.5.2 / FCP HD 4.5 / CineWave 4.7 / Cinewave RT Pro/ Pro Digital Plus & Pro Analogue BOB

[Paul Nevison]

a message will be sent to apple and in about 15 mins there will be the whisper sound of a black hellicopter hovering overhead as a black van pulls up outside your home where your loved ones will be whisked away to some area 51 type accomodations in san diego.

your macs will be confiscated and replaced with tape loading spectrum zx81’s

beware the wrath of Jobs!!!

[Paul Nevison]

sorry further to this my canvas is actually 3072×768 a super duper widescreen projection wall. arrrggghhh

[Paul Nevison]

cool thanks for that graeme. so where does that leave FCP and HDV as doesn’t this format use a type of mpeg 2 for its encoding?

[Paul Nevison]

NT