playback in viewer on FCP with HD
by martha Skolnik
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Sep 8, 2009 at 9:09:34 pm
I'm working in an HD project 720p24. The problem is when I play a clip in QT it looks beautiful and perfect. When I play it in either the viewer or the canvas windows in FCP it looks like cr@p. Very fuzzy when played, looks perfect when it's not playing (frozen on any given frame). Thanks in advance for any help. Martha
Re: playback in viewer on FCP with HD by Shane Ross on Sep 8, 2009 at 10:53:12 pm
#2 Blurry Playback
Shane's Stock Answer #2: Blurry playback
ONLY JUDGE THE QUALITY OF YOUR MATERIAL ON AN EXTERNAL BROADCAST MONITOR, OR AT LEAST A TV.
The Canvas shows you what happens after the codec you are working with has been applied. The Viewer shows you the material in its native format. Once you drop the footage from the Viewer into the timeline, it inherits the attributes of the sequence. If it is a DV sequence, the footage will render out as DV.
1. Disable overlays on the Canvas.
2. Make sure you've rendered everything (no green bars at the top of the timeline).
Video playback requires large amounts of data and many computations. In order to maintain frame rate and be viewable at a normal size, only about one-fourth of the DV data is used in displaying the movie to the screen. However, the DV footage is still at full quality, and is best viewed thru a TV or broadcast monitor routed thru your camera or deck.
