[Walter Miale]

I didn’t catch the instructions re exporting for Flash.

I presume that will provide the most universally playable format, yes?

Do I export a reference QT from FCP and then use Compressor to compress it to H.264, and afterward just change the extension to .flv?? Or what?

[Walter Miale]

Thanks for the info. May I ask for a response to the other Q:

After editing I clip disenable (by Control clicking) everything and re-enable it; send to Compressor using current Timeline settings (ProRes 422, Render all YUV material in high-precision YUV, motion filtering quality Best. Correct? Any reason to make an intermediate QT? If so, does it have to be self-contained? My tests are inconclusive on this.

Working on an iMac 2 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo; OS 10.5.8; FCP 7.0.1; Compressor 3.5.1; dv footage captured years ago to dv; outputting to m2v for DVD’s.

We are taking pains on this project to get max possible quality (without recapturing, which is not practical), especially re color quality. Some of the footage is heavy with fx. The color on much of it is cranked up, much of it well past legal limits, which is fine because it is for an installation, not broadcast.

Walter

[Walter Miale]

7.0.1.

Thanks.

Walter

[Walter Miale]

Ahh……. Looks fine in the external and in QT exports.

But can I set up to get a WYSIWYG picture in the Viewer or Canvas windows?

Thanks!

Walter

[Walter Miale]

OK, I reviewed the podcast again and am working on it.

The problem with selecting the type is that it has drop shadows (and strokes). I cant add the alpha after doing the drop shadows, and of course if I add them before-they disappear.

Kindly advise.

BTW I take it that when you said to do the job in native size, you meant (for dv sd) 720 x 480, yes? I have sort of passable type at 60 pts, borderline at 29 pts and bad at 23 pts.

Thanks again.

[Walter Miale]

Must this be done in an app like Word or InDesign or TextEdit, or can it just be done in another Photoshop file at a higher res in another format or converted to shape before reducing?

What is a bicubic sharper?

[Walter Miale]

Hey thanks, Richard. I looked closely at the podcasts. I’m missing something.

Can the procedure for alpha channels be the same for text layers? I don’t see how you can use a selection tool (color range) to make an alpha for text.

I’m making titles (white, wih drop shadows and outline (stroke) fx. The alpha channel will delineate the outside edges of the drop shadow, but the problem that began this thread is that the type itself does not have good crisp edges, although I am following all your other instructions.

I’m using a font with serifs–Palatino. At 60 points, the slides look OK in PS, but in FC (and at 200 percent in PS) the curve at the top of the O’s and at the bulges in the B’s are going, as are the diagonals in the W’s. I’d like to do better.

At 29 points, the text in FC is borderline, and at 23 points, text looks lousy–even with sans serif fonts.

Here’s my work order: New file w preset of 720 x 480 w .9 nonsquare pixels, Drag in a still of the video background as a dummy. Add a text layer for each type block and enter the text. Add drop shadows and outline. Convert type to shape. Deselect the background and merge the visible layers. Discard the background. I would add the alpha here (yes?) except for the drop-shadow problem above. Then I save as a layered TIFF and import to FC.

Thanks again.

Walter

[Walter Miale]

A clue: the monochromatic image was before filtering. For some reason, making the freeze frame seems to have removed the attributes.

[Walter Miale]

OK, that’s what I always do. I just did it again. But now, for obscure (to me) reasons, the freeze frame that results is radically desaturated. Not entirely monochromatic, but almost.

Gremlins?

[Walter Miale]

Thanks, that helped.

DV SD footage imported into a ProRes 422 timeline. I clicked on Make Freeze Frame while in the View window. But I was outside the In and Out limits of the clip. It didn’t help to dupe the seq and change the In and Put points, but what did help was to just create the freeze frame and then to paste the attributes from the original clip into it.

Doesn’t seem an ideal method, does it? I can’t see a difference on the screen, but I’d like to do it losslessly.

Walter