Todd Beabout
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[David Roth Weiss] “So, what’s the solution?”
The footage will most likely look slightly better on a NTSC monitor if you have one connected. Sebastian does not mention if he has a way to monitor externally in his profile, so I would assume that he does not (which is probably why he is working in DV). Other than that, I would say the “solution” would be to not work in DV if you want crisp, clean graphics. Sebastian, how are you outputting this project? DV tape, DVD, web?
As far as another option for getting the Motion clip into FCP… You could experiment with exporting a QuickTime and see if you get better results, but the only advantage to this that I have personally found is that the Motion project files (or LiveType for that matter) seem to render very slow in FCP.
-Todd Beabout
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[JaimeyWB] “I am grabbing a number of VOB files from DVD, converting them .mov using mpeg streamclip so that I can edit them for the client in FCP. Afterward, I am using Flip4Mac to convert the file to .wmv format for the client to use in PowerPoint for Windows.”
Your original video file was already compressed to begin with (MPEG2). You then have converted that, edited it in another app (which also probably forces another conversion on the footage), then exported to yet another type of compression (.wmv). Seriously, what did you expect? Your graphics are most likely getting worse with each step of this workflow. I would suggest retyping the graphics from withing FCP (if that is even an option) or come up with some other way of doing this.
-Todd Beabout
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[Sebastian] “I am working in DV in Final Cut Pro 5. I notice the Motion 2 files look blurry”
DV is highly compressed, and as soon as you throw the Motion project file into a DV timeline it WILL get blurry. Because it is highly compressed.
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Thank you guys for all the great info! We will have to really look at both systems closely to determine which one best fits our needs, but I always like to get some “real-world” info from people actually using the system and you have helped alot.
-Todd Beabout
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It has pulldown added from when you first shot it on the DVX unless you used 24pA. But it shouldn’t look bad when played back. All film/24p has pulldown added and that is normal.
-Todd Beabout
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Since you are referring to a still frame graphic (I’m assuming) it doesn’t seem like there should be any “frames” to “blend”. Unless it affects the animation itself, which would seem a little odd to me. In fact, I’m suprised that unchecking that box had any affect at all. I’ll have to try that out myself.
Were you talking about the way that a graphic will “swim” or “crawl” around the edges as it is DVE’d around the screen? Or are you saying that one of the fields seems to dissapear altogether? I have found that the 10-bit YUV setting is completly broken in FCP when it comes to basically anything other than cutting video. Graphics seem to have a lot of problems in 10-bit YUV. Don’t try Motion Blur, or many plug-ins or you may get green or purple frames, OR… you might see a graphic that looks like it lost a field (as you described). I have anyways. Right-click your sequence and go to the Video Processing tab and select 8-bit YUV for the closest quality that actually functions correctly.
Although if you have solved the problem already with that frame-blending button…
-Todd Beabout
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[paul nevison] “can i boot from install disks”
Yes, and this is probably your best option. Unless you have an OS9 partition or something like that to boot from.
Man, I wonder how many people out there still have an OS9 partition.
-Todd Beabout
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Just wanting to clarify… In your original post you said:
“When we put it on the timeline, the preview looks/plays fine. Then when we RENDER it has glitches like this during periods of motion”
But in this post you then say:
[AaronJohnson] “There are no filters or effect… The glitching occurs when dragging the video straight onto the timeline.”
This sounds contradictory. Are you sure there is not some specific filter that you might have applied? Because if your sequence and source clip settings all match you should not have to render obviously.
When you get back to the FCP box, also check to see what you are using to capture (i.e. AJA, Blackmagic, etc.) like Charlie asked. This could help troubleshoot the problem. Also, and just asking here… you didn’t try to add another pulldown or anything like that did you?
-Todd Beabout
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You would want to use MPEG-1. There is a setting under Compressor (under Web-Download QT6 compatible) called MPEG-1 that looks like it might do it, but in the past I used Toast to create a VCD, and I believe that it would do the encoding for me. If you have it on the same box as your FCP you could kick out a reference movie and let Toast encode it. It always kicked out a .mpg file that was 320×240.
I believe you will need a special program to create a VCD though unless you are going to play it back on a DVD player that can read MPEG directly. I have a Phillips model that will read both MPEG and .avi divx files and play them on my TV, and it rocks.
I think there are a few free VCD programs. Click the apple at the top left of your computer monitor, and click “Get Mac OSX software…” and then search for VCD on apple’s site there.
Good luck!
-Todd Beabout
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Let me try to better explain what I was talking about in the last post.
In FCP you can drag a sequence from your Browser directly to a new timeline, and it will appear as one large clip (this is what some call a “nested” sequence or clip). You can then add effects to that one (“nested”) clip and it will affect your entire program. This is not necessarily useful for all effects, but putting a Widescreen filter on your entire program would make sense. Now…
Rather than adjusting the vertical positing from within the widescreen filter, I think it would be preferable to go back into that original (“nested”) sequence by double-clicking it in your timeline (which will open up your original timeline in a new tab on your Timeline window) and then loading each clip that you would like to re-position into the Viewer. Once in the Viewer, click on the Motion tab. Under Basic Motion there is a Center paramater with X and Y fileds for you to enter a number. You would want to enter an even number where the 2nd zero is (by default). Positive numbers move the image down vertically, and negative move it up.
If you get both of your timelines on the same clip, you can then jump between them (by clicking their tab) and see how your image lines up with the Widescreen filter applied.
I hope this helps… Post back if something is not clear. I’m not done with my first cup of coffee yet, so I could have just typed all of this in tounges or something…
-Todd Beabout
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