[Paul Stoll]

With some help from another post I figured it out. It was really silly.

I returned my broadcast monitor and was comparing on my lcd screen. In quicktime player. The mpeg2 looked good the quicktime didn’t.

There is a setting in quicktime player preferences to check use HD video when needed or something like that. After that was checked everything looked normal.

I guess my higher resolution footage was being compressed by quicktime player.

At the same time I exported FCP quicktime conversion:Animation codec. The file is 100 GB but it looks great in my case.

I ended up using that export to master. I’ll let you guys know how it looks on the big screen playing through dvcam.

Thanks for your help,
Paul