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Why are my titles and graphics pixelated in Final Cut?

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 12:51:33 +0000

This is a common question and there are several answers:

First, the Final Cut Pro Canvas usually shows titles and graphics more pixelated and lower quality than the actual quality. Render a title and play it on a real monitor – or render and export a 10 frame test to disk and view to see the true picture.

Read these articles on monitoring: http://www.dvcreators.net/tag/monitoring/ for more info.

If you are rendering to the DV codec, you will see an instant drop in quality. [read more →]

Rayz O Lite – free half-hour course on programming awesome light rays in QC

22-02-1989 — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 12:14:15 +0000

Learn how to create your very own rays of light for your Final Cut projects!

Final Cut Studio Warp Speed Workflow #4: Batch Rename Files

Fri, 04 May 2007 14:19:23 +0000

Here is a Warp Speed Workflow showing how to change hundred of files names in one click.

Editing a title in Final Cut

Wed, 04 Apr 2007 22:46:05 +0000

The answer to a frequently asked question about creating titles and not being able to see changes as they make them. $4

Core Duo versus Core 2 Duo speed tests

Sun, 05 Nov 2006 02:32:23 +0000

Bare Feats is at it again, with speed tests of the new Core 2 Duo MacBook Pros:

ArtRage

Fri, 07 Apr 2006 17:25:19 +0000

ArtRage is a painting package designed to provide a realistic and fun simulation of using paint on a canvas, along with pens, pencils, crayons, and other tools. ArtRage is available for both Windows and Mac OS X. It can be used with a mouse, but works better if you have a graphics tablet, or even better on a Tablet PC where ArtRage takes advantage of the unique interaction of pen and screen to produce a realistic painting feel.

Gloodle

Wed, 29 Mar 2006 19:16:54 +0000

Windows-only free app:

Gloodle is “doodle with globs” — drawing using 3D shapes to create 2D images with a lot of richness, complexity, and depth. Gloodle is a simple app that shows some hint of the immediate feedback that makes particleIllusion so fun and useable: in Gloodle you just draw on the window and cool things happen. Not much thinking required. There are plenty of controls to experiment with, and (like particleIllusion) a lot of power hidden under simple controls.

Gloodle is [read more →]

How can I create graphics for video?

Tue, 24 Jan 2006 17:17:48 +0000

Photoshop is the old standby, but I don’t like it for video graphics. Someone as simple as grabbing an element and moving it is problematic. I much prefer FireWorks, or even Motion for still graphics, which has some nice layout functions.

Flash is also an option for “PowerPoint” type slides, as well as Keynote.

GIMP is a free, open source graphics program very similar to Photoshop. It is a freely [read more →]

JES Deinterlacer

Sat, 31 Dec 2005 08:05:47 +0000

Features:

* Deinterlace movies (half height/normal height/double frame rate/blend,adaptive/simple). * Change field dominance (for PAL films with fake interlace). * Reinterlace from one or two movies. * Standards conversion (PAL< ->NTSC or custom). * Inverse telecine. * Trim, shift, simple color correction, noise reduction. * Change encoding (RGB gamma, video range/full range). * Fix jagged edges. * Pitch preserving sound track for half speed. * Change movie speed, reverse movie. * Interlaced in/out, progressive in/out. * Includes utility to view and [read more →]

How do I use stills in Final Cut?

Sat, 31 Dec 2005 06:19:55 +0000

To use still images in a Final Cut timeline, use one of the following formats:

TIFF
PICT (uncompressed)
PNG
.PSD RGB (NOT CMYK)

For 100% size, use 72 dpi. 24 bit color (or 32 with Alpha channel) looks the best.

Save your original Photoshop or Fireworks file, then “Merge Down” (to rasterize layer effects like glows and drop shadows, FCP will not import those).

Finally, resize your images to the right dimensions:

DV NTSC 720 x 480 (non-square pixels)

DV PAL 720 x 576 (non-square pixels)

1080i HD 1920 x [read more →]