[Rileym]

i think that its gotta be the ad dollars. as noted above, discovery channel has many times the ad revenue that DHDtheater does – and advertisers pay more for their spots in an exclusive, heavilly promoted special.
the mystery to me is that the revenue on the HD channels hasn’t caught up faster. the numbers of HD sets out there is incredible now, but only a percentage of those sets actually receive HD programming – and a smaller percentage receive HD cable programming.

you’d think that those viewers would be worth a bit more, per head, than their SD counterparts, because they have demonstrated a willingness to spend a lot of money on toys, but it sort of doesn’t seem that way based on the quantity of advertising that you actually see on the HD channels..

[Rileym]

well, when i said earlier that it was the livetype file causing the problem, i think that i was off base.

bringing the layers into a timeline by themselves, the photos look sharp, on the computer monitor, and my 2 external ntsc monitors, HOWEVER, as soon as i render, they get that loss in resolution that i’m talking about.

(earlier i was thinking, the photos look sharp until i place them over the livetype file, but i think the process of doing that was making the system do a proxy render which makes the photos lose resolution)

so it seems to be the video processing of the graphics that causese the issue, but i still don’t get it. why?
i haven’t had this issue before…

any other ideas?

[Rileym]

indeed i did.
always a good idea to check that basic stuff, thouggh. just to be sure.

i’m looking into render settings now.

but i don’t think thats it.

any other ideas?

thanks

[Rileym]

i’m really mystified by this whole situation, and need to find a solution for my client soon on this. so any help you can offer is much appreciated.

again, the photos look fine on the exact same timeline that i’m working on UNTIL i drop the texture/background that i created in livetype on video layer 1, then the photos appear to lose about half of their resolution. i do have 19 layers of video in this composite, but they all seem to work just fine until i put in that livetype texture, and then you can really see that the photos look pixelated.

i don’t believe that i’m doing anything unusual so i’ve got to believe that this is a problem that some of you have faced before… any ideas?

thanks again for your help everyone!

riley

[Rileym]

yes, i do have those two settings in the sequence presets set to ‘best’ and high presicion YUV.

and no, i’m not editing the livetype file within fcp.
spitting out the .mov out of livetype, and importing into fcp.

hm.

[Rileym]

messing around with it a bit more now to give us more info…

the graphic looks fine on the same timeline UNTIL i put the livetype background underneath it.

the .psd file by itself looks fine, and the 6 seperated layers from the .psd file look fine when i take the .psd background away. its only when i place these layers (or the whole .psd file) on TOP of the livetype background that i lose resolution in the photos (but the livetype backgound looks fine)

i’m mystified.

but thanks for helping me work through this.

[Rileym]

thanks again for your help.

pixel size? i don’t know exactly what you mean.
there is plenty of resolution in the photo.

in photoshop, i transformed scale of these photos down to the relatively small film strip graphic (maybe 70-80 pixels high of the 480 horizontal in DV) – but th photos look good in photoshop…

riley

[Rileym]

THANKS a lot for your help, its much appreciated.

yeah, it looks the same on the external monitors. i’ve got 2, 1 consumer, 1 professional NTSC monitors, and they still look low res. basically, it just looks pixelated to about half of the resolution that it should be. so weird.
i’m outputting to .wmv on this project, via flip4mac, and it looks the same in those files (as well as quicktime files)

i’m on a dv timeline, 8 bit, and the ‘scrub high quality’ doesn’t seem to change anything.
maybe i should try a 10 bit timeline?

thanks again

riley

[Rileym]

yeah, its very weird –
and a bit hard to describe…
esentially, i can drag the timeline so that it crosses the monitor junction (the middle line between the 2 montiors), but then, when i click on the lower right hand corner triangle to expand the timeline window, it automatically shrinks, and moves to either the left or right monitor, whichever more of the timeline window is in before i clicked on the lower right corner.

if i leave the timeline window in the left monitor, and the try to click on that lower right corner to expand it, i can only shrink it, and not expand it on the right monitor.

it clearly does NOT want to be on both monitors at the same time.

its weird.

any ideas?
should i try calling apple support yathink?

THANKS for your help.

[Rileym]

great John-
i guess that i’ll just call Jerry and talk through it with him.
thanks again!

riley