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Re: Image Sequences and Quicktime
by David Roth Weiss on Jul 3, 2008 at 12:04:06 pm

[Greg Newman] "The FCP manual suggests importing the sequence into Quicktime and choosing SAVE, which it says will create an uncompressed movie with no compression applied. It also says you can choose EXPORT, as you suggested, to convert the quicktime to another codec. However, it emphasizes that saving the file creates this uncompressed version, which is why I chose this route."

Tested this and it works just fine, zero difference in quality.

[Greg Newman] "The targa files look fine in Photoshop. As soon as I import them into Quicktime, even before I save or export, they look like crap. Instantly, even a single frame is blocky as hell."

Something is decidely wrong on your side Greg. That absolutely positively does not happen here.

[Greg Newman] "So regardless of the quicktime process, I can't even view the targa files in QT without them looking bad. Something is going wrong somewhere."

Definitely an issue in your pipeline somewhere. I created a TGA seq. in Combustion and a single TGA in Photoshop. All are at 1280x720 and everything is perfect when imported into FCP. On a 42" plasma there is zero difference between originals and QT I created from the TGA sequence.

What program did you create them in?

How are you monitoring FCP?

Send me a few TGAs at "drw at drwfilms dot com" and I'll analyze them.

David

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