[Scott Gray]

We haven’t identified it yet, but it is probably around 100MB.

[Scott Gray]

I tried both suggestions and the processed files still do not have smooth motion. Thanks for your response, but I’m at a loss.

[Scott Gray]

My source photo image is a TIFF file 1200×940.

Thanks everyone for the feedback. I’ll try some of the testing advice and let you know of the results.

[Scott Gray]

We viewed it on both. When viewed on an interlaced TV it looks just fine. When viewing on a computer, or when viewing on a flat screen display using a progressive scan set-top DVD player, the moving photo looks fuzzy. All of the video clips in the program look fine as well. Only this horizontal direction moving photo looks bad.

I can make the program look great for interlaced viewing, but not progressive viewing. Could it be possible that the refresh rate on the progressive monitors can not keep up with the moving photo?

[Scott Gray]

The majority of material is DV video shot and captured 29.97. We are using the video as background imagery for still photographs that are moving across the screen at a medium rate of speed. I’m exporting directly from FCP to Compressor. I’ve been down the export to QT testing on other projects with the results being virtually identicle.

The look on my canvas is identicle to the encoded image on my canvas in Studio Pro and also on a computer when playing the burned DVD disc.

Thanks for your response. I’ll be happy when interlaced video is no more!

[Scott Gray]

Originally I imported pict files directly into Studio Pro, made a slideshow and let SP do the encoding. There doesn’t seem to be an option in my encoding preferences for progressive encoding of the stills. I agree that the look of the images resemble a frozen field look. Thanks for the information. I’ll run down this road.

[Scott Gray]

I appreciate the feedback from this great forum, and for both of you taking the time to reply to this quality issue so promptly. Since you both appear to know much more than I do on the subject, here is my immediate delimma. I have a customer who is viewing still images scaled in Photoshop, saved as pict files at 72dpi and then made as a slideshow in Studio Pro. The end result is that all the still images, which by the way began as high quality digital images, look “fuzzy” by the time they are encoded and viewed on a display. This particular client is critiquing on his 47″ plasma and comparing it to his copy of Lord of The Rings.

[Scott Gray]

This only occurs when working with files on the desktop in Finder. I have not had this occur when using any application. I have only one user set-up on my system. Per first response to my issue, I repaired my disk permissions and this did not solve the problem. I will try your suggestion to trash the Finder preferences as you prescribed, and I’ll let you know if it worked.

Thanks for your response.

[Scott Gray]

I’m referring to Illustrator CS. – Thanks

[Scott Gray]

Sorry to be so vague. I’m shooting with an HVX200 on P2 cards which I’m importing into FCP. My sequence frame rate is 29.97. I’m shooting a scene that has a stone fireplace. As the camera pushes, the seams in between the stones are jittering and pulsating. This is amplified during the MP2 encoding process using Compressor. By the time it gets to a 42″ LCD screen it looks horrible.

I thought that shooting in progressive, making a progressive DVD, and playing back on a progressive DVD player on a progressive LCD screen would eliminate the interlaced looking jitter.