LiveType in HD Quality?

hi guys.
anything i do and export from livetype has standard definition quality. but i need that all in hd quality. how do i achieve that?

Edit > Project Properties > Presets.
Choose a preset that corresponds to your sequence settings in FCP.

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Livetype Title Render Quality

I currently am trying to render some livetype titles in FCE, and for some reason, the fonts look a bit blurred and interlaced in the canvas preview window.
I did print to video and took it over to a television and the titles looked fine, however here's my question: What if I am using FCE to create a video for the web? On all the computers I have checked this video, the titles do not look "professional." Is there any way that I can remedy this?

Tom (and Nick),
Thanks to this thread I've had one of those "A ha!" moments when everything falls into place (I hope).
I've wondered why there are frequently posts regarding "Livetype Quality", etc, yet others don't have these problems?
Often the user is referring to the quality of the display in the Canvas in FCE/FCP. Responses are often along the lines of "The Canvas and computer monitor are not capable of displaying the same quality as a TV Monitor can, etc and you should always check output on a TV Monitor", etc.
This makes sense since a TV Monitor is interlaced and (I think) the canvas drops a field in it's display (at least when not set to 100%)
However, I don't think that's the real problem some of these people are having. As Tom mentioned, it's all down to the codec.
I bet these users are working in the DV codec which unfortuntely just can't do what Livetype is capable of in the Animation codec.
Unfortuantely, those replying are probably pros and are working in better codecs than DV, such as uncompressed 8-bit, etc and therefore the degradation isn't as great for them. They aren't having the issue due to this.
I think perhaps someone should make a sticky of this codec limitation, since issues with Livetype/Motion Quality come up all the time and I bet a lot of the time it's nothing to do with the user mis-interpreting what the Canvas displays over a TV monitor, but to do with the user working with DV.
Add to that sticky this excellent post by Kevin Monahan over at Kenstone's site:
http://www.kenstone.net/cgi/discussions/general.cgi?noframes;read=60455#60455
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Are you monitoring your graphics properly as you work on a decent pro video monitor?
Have you checked the dark green "FULL" bar in the Sequence>Render menus before rendering?
Have you enabled the RT Pop up menu to "Safe RT" and Full Quality?
Is your Motion Filtering Quality set to "Best" in your User Prefs>Render Control?
Is your Render Quality set to 100%?
Are your graphics placed on whole, even X, Y integers?
Are you placing the Wireframes in different positions rather than moving the point controls in the Controls Tab?
Are you using the poorer quality "legacy" FCP title generators? (You should be using Title 3D instead).
Do you know how to properly prepare graphics in Photoshop?
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Probably Project Properties Problem....Not Sure

Hi Everyone,
I'm new to Mac's, Final Cut and of course, Live Type. I'm putting a project together and I'm having a problem with Live Type and the only thing that I can think of is that my settings are not set correctly.
My project in FCE is set to be rendered in 1280x720 HD. My LiveType intro has a Picture background that I brought in. (let nme explain this....the still in the background is actually a Quicktime movie of a still rendered in FCE. So when I brought in my background it was through "Place BackGround Movie)
Ok, so the background is set in place. I did my text with a Spin & Fade effect. I saved it and brought it into FCE project. The Live Type movie played but it was very grainy. In the live type editor it was clear as a bell.
I than realized that maybe its my settings in Live Type. I used the default that was there. So I switched the Presets to DVCPROHD-720p30 figuring that this is why my LiveType clip did not come out clear. I rendered it and saved it and played in LiveType and the quality was superb. I placed this clip in my FCE project and again it plays very grainy picture. Can someone help me with this dilemma? I'm sure its somethig small that I'm missing.
Thank You
Tom

Hey Tom!!!
I know one thing for sure. People complain about this with text all the time. The project looks great in Livetype then when they bring it to FCE the text gets all blurry and loses quality. The same thing may apply to your movie.
One thing you could try is this. Export your FCE project into a Quicktime movie and see if that helps. Usually when you do this all the quality comes back.
Check out these links below. They apply to the text problem but they may help your case....
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=7198129#7198129
I hope this helps,
-Hooked

Quality of imported LiveType .movs

Why is imported LiveType low quality when I input into FCE, when it is fine before importing and opening it in quicktime. It goes really grainy once it is placed into my sequence? Have I got the settings wrong. I chose the Apple Int. Codec and HDV1080i, which is the same FCE is set to. Also, I noticed that the imported livetype is 4:3, how do I make it 16:9? Thanks

Ok, I think I just fixed it, I just changed the export setting from the Apple codec to H.264 and that seemed to work

Whatever is Created in LiveType....Loses Quality in FCE ......?

I've noticed no matter what I create in LiveType after it is rendered in FCE as a Quicktime movie (LivetType clips used as intros) it loses Picture quality. It becomes very grainy, why???? How do I rectify this problem?

Ok. This is the thing that is throwing me off. I pplaced the livetype movie onto a movie and it improved ever-so-slightly. I understand that in livetype it is created in the highest quality and the moment you place something like that onto a dvd it loses quality. Granted I don;t have a blue ray burbner so I can keep the quality but I place some of my videos on Vimeo.com that accepts HD videos and when I placed it on there site it still looks the same. It only looks good in the LiveType editor or when i just render it as a movie. Final Cut kills the quality. So much for such creating HD videos when I can't do a simple intro in HD its more like SD.

Text quality on livetype

i just made a project and my text that i made in live type isn't the best looking quality. it's kind of pixelated and fuzzy. it especially shows up when i have it finished and on my dvd i made. what settings to i need to change in order to make the text to appear more clear and crisp?
Mac OS X (10.4.8)

I've checked everything I can think of and the only thing that may help is field dominance (edit - project properties - field dominance). In both our project files there is no field dominance selected but following this test from the LT help:
To test the field rendering order: 1 Start a new LiveType project. 2 Choose Edit > Project Properties. 3 In the Project Properties dialog, do the following: aChoose an NTSC or PAL setting from the Presets pop-up menu. bSelect the box next to Render Fields. c Do not select Upper First. In this case, you are rendering lower field first. dClick OK. 4 In the Inspector, do the following: aType a capital “O” in a system font on Track 1. bIncrease its size to fill most of the Canvas. c Color the letter red, then choose black as your background color. 5 Apply a fast-moving effect to the track, such as Jumpy, in the Caricature effect category in the Media Browser. 6 In the Timing tab, set the speed of the effect to 100 percent. 7 Choose File > Render Movie. 8 Enter lower.mov as the file name in the Save As field, then click Save. 9 Now change the color of the capital “O” to blue. Select Upper First in the Project Properties dialog. 10 Render this second movie, naming it upper.mov. 11 Play back both movies on an NTSC monitor. One of the two movies will look distorted; the other movie will play correctly, with sharply defined edges. Whenever you render a LiveType movie for that system, use the settings you used for the undistorted output.
it's the only way I could replicate any pixellation/artefacts. Just replicating your project file, but in PAL, it played thro' perfectly.
The only other thing I can suggest is using the preset
CCIR 601 NTSC sq 4:3 and see if this makes any difference.
Do post back and let me know if any of these work.
Dave.

Why is the text I create in LiveType appear so low Quality in Final Cut Pro

I been having problems trying to get my fonts and titles to look sharp because once I place them into Final Cut Pro, they become all pixelated. I have my playback at full quality, and even when I render the movie the titles look sloppy... What exactly is wrong?

It would really help if someone could tell me exactly what I need to do to achieve good looking titles... I would hate to be halfway through the project only to have to re-do everything because of a small technical error.
Powermac DC 2.0Ghz - 160GB - 2.5 DDR2 RAM + Apple Cinema 20 inch + Harman/Kardo Mac OS X (10.4.3)

LiveType text quality unusable after installing Quicktime 7.0.4

Is anyone else seeing this problem after installing 10.4.4 and QT7.0.4?
Any previous or new projects in Livetype (FCS) that utilise text (so all of them!) look absoloutely terrible - the fonts are all jagged, have strange shadows and other artefacts. We are observing this on a number of Mac's.
Having rolled QT back to 7.0.3 using the re-installer then updating we can aleviate most of the problems.
I hope Apple fix this pronto!

Here's link for the fixed version of Flip4Mac 2.0.1
http://www.flip4mac.com/wmv_download.htm
It seems Microsoft hasn't updated their link to it.

LiveType SLOW.. OSX 10.5 Virtual Mem Hog Questions.

First - need to vent some - Sorry. You don't have to say it - I have an older machine. -BUT- I am really confused by some of the statements I am reading about Virtual RAM usage associate with MAC apps. Many in Mac Support worlds are suggesting the age old Microsoft solution - just add more ram or a bigger drive. Horse hockey. I have programmed Windows, Unix, OSX and Linux - the real answer typically is - how many "no-ops did they program in their code to force user hardware upgrades to new systems" and how tight is their code. I'd like to believe that MAC application developers are somewhat better than those in Microsoft. To say I'm miffed isn't coming close. OKAY-Enough for venting. Lets shift to problem solving.
*The Problem At Hand.*
Am running OSX 10.5 with FinalCut Express 4.0 and Livetype (i.e. LT) 2.1.4. Attempting a test of scrolling credits of 40 seconds at DV quality (29.97 fps)-hence 1200 frames. Just text - black on wht bkgnd - no video background. No other applications running except Activity Monitor. This rendering took 6 hrs 58 min - totally unacceptable. Processing averaged 95% of total CPU cycles for both processors for nearly 7 hrs. Interesting that multithreading is occurring but not consistently across both processors - seems in most cases to promote an OR operation not an AND - whose brain child was that one. Although less than 50% of literal RAM is being totally utilized by all processes, LT consumes only 70Megs - yet also allocates and consumes 1.8Gig of Virtual - what gives? Many times, the LT process would hang showing (not responding), but would only last for 2-3 seconds before resuming, and ever so often would log statistics of shared memory to be 16,xxx,xxx.00(TB) - where the 'x's would vary but still a huge number. Any clues on that one either?
In all, my dual 1GHz processors may be arguably slower than the newer quad-core models, but lets do the math. A 32 or 64 bit architecture clocking at parallel 1GHz rates is a huge amount of bits. With a 32bit bus thats 32 Billion Bits each second (bps) or with a 64bit buss (64 B bps). As such, 1200 DV quality frames at 720x480 resolution (345.6kb ea) is 414.72Mb total. I realize that vectoring and other video mathematics need to take place –BUT- even if this adds a factor of 10x this now implies 4.1472Gb implying processing time of 0.13 seconds to process 1200 DV frames –or- half of that for a 64 bit buss – and for a single processor. Reverse engineering shows an interesting picture – 7hours of 95% dual processor utilization for a 32 bit architecture is 1532.16 Tb (at 25,200 s) implying nearly 4.4B DV frames –or- 42,000 HOURS of DV video for 7hrs of 95% processing horsepower. Something is really wrong here.
I am told by MAC support that my Video cards ALU does little for MAC video applications leaving most of the job to the CPU's - a real shame. I also do not quite know how to factor into the clocking equation RAM transfer speed for PC2700. Since there is so much virtual ram shifting occurring - I presume that this converts hard drive space for RAM - I have basic 100MBs transfer rates at 7200RPMs – hence another potential limiting factor.
Questions.
1. If Virtual mem is slowing this - how do I shift to actual ram within OSX10.5?
2. In LT, how does one start and stop the Inspector window? Need to shut it off or at least pause it.
3. Any thoughts toward why OSX10.5 apps take lots of virtual ram at the expense of actual ram?
4. Any thoughts to speeding up LT in general?
Thanks,
Davidpic

First - need to vent some - Sorry. You don't have to say it - I have an older machine. -BUT- I am really confused by some of the statements I am reading about Virtual RAM usage associate with MAC apps. Many in Mac Support worlds are suggesting the age old Microsoft solution - just add more ram or a bigger drive. Horse hockey. I have programmed Windows, Unix, OSX and Linux - the real answer typically is - how many "no-ops did they program in their code to force user hardware upgrades to new systems" and how tight is their code. I'd like to believe that MAC application developers are somewhat better than those in Microsoft. To say I'm miffed isn't coming close. OKAY-Enough for venting. Lets shift to problem solving.
*The Problem At Hand.*
Am running OSX 10.5 with FinalCut Express 4.0 and Livetype (i.e. LT) 2.1.4. Attempting a test of scrolling credits of 40 seconds at DV quality (29.97 fps)-hence 1200 frames. Just text - black on wht bkgnd - no video background. No other applications running except Activity Monitor. This rendering took 6 hrs 58 min - totally unacceptable. Processing averaged 95% of total CPU cycles for both processors for nearly 7 hrs. Interesting that multithreading is occurring but not consistently across both processors - seems in most cases to promote an OR operation not an AND - whose brain child was that one. Although less than 50% of literal RAM is being totally utilized by all processes, LT consumes only 70Megs - yet also allocates and consumes 1.8Gig of Virtual - what gives? Many times, the LT process would hang showing (not responding), but would only last for 2-3 seconds before resuming, and ever so often would log statistics of shared memory to be 16,xxx,xxx.00(TB) - where the 'x's would vary but still a huge number. Any clues on that one either?
In all, my dual 1GHz processors may be arguably slower than the newer quad-core models, but lets do the math. A 32 or 64 bit architecture clocking at parallel 1GHz rates is a huge amount of bits. With a 32bit bus thats 32 Billion Bits each second (bps) or with a 64bit buss (64 B bps). As such, 1200 DV quality frames at 720x480 resolution (345.6kb ea) is 414.72Mb total. I realize that vectoring and other video mathematics need to take place –BUT- even if this adds a factor of 10x this now implies 4.1472Gb implying processing time of 0.13 seconds to process 1200 DV frames –or- half of that for a 64 bit buss – and for a single processor. Reverse engineering shows an interesting picture – 7hours of 95% dual processor utilization for a 32 bit architecture is 1532.16 Tb (at 25,200 s) implying nearly 4.4B DV frames –or- 42,000 HOURS of DV video for 7hrs of 95% processing horsepower. Something is really wrong here.
I am told by MAC support that my Video cards ALU does little for MAC video applications leaving most of the job to the CPU's - a real shame. I also do not quite know how to factor into the clocking equation RAM transfer speed for PC2700. Since there is so much virtual ram shifting occurring - I presume that this converts hard drive space for RAM - I have basic 100MBs transfer rates at 7200RPMs – hence another potential limiting factor.
Questions.
1. If Virtual mem is slowing this - how do I shift to actual ram within OSX10.5?
2. In LT, how does one start and stop the Inspector window? Need to shut it off or at least pause it.
3. Any thoughts toward why OSX10.5 apps take lots of virtual ram at the expense of actual ram?
4. Any thoughts to speeding up LT in general?
Thanks,
Davidpic

LiveType Credit Roll Text Blurry Shaking in DVD Studio Pro Completed SD

I first created text scrolling directly from inside FCP. The texts appear shaking/blurry in the exported MOV. After trying different font family/size but still getting the same bad result, I did more research. I then created the credit roll in LiveType, imported that into FCP. This time, the exported finished MOV looks great on computer. I thought this is the right fix but after I got everything done in DVD Studio Pro and burned a SD to test on my 50" screen SONY, the credit roll part is again shaking and blurry!! This really drove me nuts!! Well, other texts that I created both in FCP and LiveType appear just fine!! I am trying to export the credit roll texts part as self-contained mov then import back to FCP but really suspect this will fix the problem.
That part of rolling credit texts were shaking in DVD Pro simulation but I thought that's only becuase it was not the final product. Any help will be greatly appreciated!
p.s. I spent the past few hours googling and tried different methods but still had no luck...:(
Thanks in advance!

Ok...I just export a MOV with ONLY the credit roll encoded using QuickTime conversion, change the compression type to Uncompressed 8-Bit 4:2:2 which was supposed to retain the graphic/text quality better than normal setting. The completed credit roll still look shaking, however. It's white text on black, yeah I know not the best combo but there must be a way to get the text to not shake/blur...no?
Please help, if anyone could.
Many thanks...

Help with quality of exported files

The problem: I'm trying to get a good quality, 34 minute movie onto a DVD with chapter markers separating individual short films. This is supposed to be a compilation of 8 family movies, in addition to an introduction and credits at the end. Four movies are old movies made in iMovie and are .m4v files. Four were made in FCE earlier this year. I linked everything together in a Master Sequence, putting pauses in between each with some livetype text files to introduce each video. The m4v files were imported and placed in the master sequence. The others are nested sequences. I put chapter markers at the beginning of each section. My intention was to export this one master sequence as a quick time movie, then put it into iDVD.
It worked, but the quality was horrible! Everything became grainy, even the movies I had previously created in FCE. This was very disappointing. So I expertimented with a few things, and here’s what I found.
When I exported a quicktime movie, the quality degraded. It became grainy. Also, it changed the aspect ratio and stretches everything horizontally, as if to take a standard size screen and stretch it to a widescreen. It did this even with the original movies I had made in FCE. I don’t like building self contained movies using this mode because the file sizes are too big, so when I export I tend to use quick time conversion. In this case, I was hoping a non-self contained movie would merely point to all the original content and not add compression artifacts (or something like that). It turns out it made it worse.
When I tried to export a quicktime conversion, 640x480 VGA, best quality, H.264, the machine couldn’t do it. It ran for an hour or so and then crashed. Twice. That is for the entire movie. When I export individual clips (3-6 minutes) it works. The quality is good for movies made in FCE, not as good for imported m4v movies made long ago in iMovie, but better than what I get exporting quicktime movie files, either self contained or not. This is surprising to me, because I was expecting the export quick time movie command to produce the best quality. Also, I’m concerned that if I was able to create this, iDVD would not see any chapter markers anyway.
So there is a problem either way. Experimenting has led me to discover several questions/issues which need answering:
Issue #1: Why can’t I get a quick time movie of the same quality as what I see on the canvas, using the quick time movie export command? On a side note, the user's manual says something about a settings pop up menu where you can deselect the "recompress all frames" option. I can't seem to find this, and was thinking maybe that would help.
Issue#2: Why do m4v files which are very high quality in iTunes suddenly become poor quality when imported into a sequence? Seems to be an import problem, because the movies are already grainy when they’re on the canvas. I thought about making XML files and importing them that way, but the original project files in iMovie are gone.
Issue #3: Why do I end up with a stretched picture if I export quick time movies and there are mixed aspect ratio contents in the sequence (the m4v files are widescreen, the others are not)? More important, how to I get FCE to not do this?
Issue #4: When I export movies using quick time movie (not conversion), the grainy movies actually look better when played in VLC. They also look good when opened with FCE. How can I get that kind of quality in quick time, or at least in iDVD? Perhaps that would solve my problem.
Thanks for any help you can provide.
E

Thanks for the response. I’m not fluent with codecs or video compression, so this project quickly became more trouble than I expected.
It turns out the nested sequences are not H.264, the compression field is blank for the nested sequences. I double checked and the other properties are correct. Sorry about that. The other movies, though, (ones built in iMovie for iTunes) are H.264.
These four . m4v movies are in 960x540 and 480 x 272 because of the way they were exported in iMovie (Share -> Export Movie opens a menu with four sizes: Tiny 176 x 144, Mobile 480 x 272, Medium 640 x 360, and Large 960 x 540).
I just imported the final products (what was exported from iMovie) as clips into FCE. Sounds like I should not be doing that. The original media is on my computer, but not the iMovie project files, and for what I’m trying to do it’s just not worth the time to rebuild the movies in FCE.
Bottom Line: Here’s the current status of the project:
All eight of the movies, by themselves, play well in quicktime. I can put all of them on a DVD, and they still play ok. I wanted to string them all together in one sequence, with some transitions in between (creating a “Play All” option on the DVD). That’s why I nested the sequences, and imported the movies made from iMovie, than added chapter markers. Unfortunately, putting these different types of media together and asking the computer to make one sequence is creating a mess. So I’m sticking with Plan B and putting the movies on a DVD without trying to merge them into a single track.
A few follow up questions…
Out of curiosity, when you say “convert everything to QuickTime DV NTSC 720x480 at 29.97fps with 48k audio,” do you mean the original media (all of the bits of video and stills that came from the camera) or the edited sequences I’m currently working with? As a lesson learned, should I be changing properties of clips before importing them to FCE, so the source material has consistent aspect ratios?
The still images, though they are huge, show up with much better quality than the movies (which is expected, and I’m ok with). So I get a product which includes both video and still images, where the images are very sharp and the movie portions are a bit grainy (because they were taken on a small digital camera). If I change the size on the stills, won’t that just bring the still image quality down?
I’m still baffled at why using the export quick time movie command makes a video of lower quality than when using quick time conversion (in other cases as well, not just this project). In every case, I’ve got digital pictures and movies from my digital camera, and some text in FCE or LiveType files on top of that, usually with additional audio tracks.

Video quality of Flash animation in iWeb

I'm inserting a flash movie (html snippet) into my iweb 08 site, but the resolution of the video is not as high as the original .swf file. This is my workflow:
-Go to LiveType and create a scrolling banner.
-Export the movie, then open it in Compressor and encode it with a different format. I do this because I've noticed that some of my LiveType animations don't play in my website if I don't encode them properly. I don't have to do this for any of my regular video files.
-Once I have the video file created, I use Visual Hub to create the .swf (flash) file.
-When I open the .swf file, the quality of the video animation is perfect.
-Then I create the html snippet in iweb 08 by copying and pasting the necessary code to make Flash work.
When I upload my site I can see some degradation in the quality of the video animation. Is not much but it is there... Has anyone seen this before? Is there a workaround for this?

I don't know that much about PC's, but you need to open the browser and click on the preferences, I think in the same way as you would do with a Mac and click on select javascript.
Rather than Firefox, get them to download a copy of Safari for PC from the Apple site.
Other than this I am not really sure of a solution, other than telling them to buy a Mac instead!!

Quality of edited footage in FCE.

Hi all,
I have recently posted a thread about an issue I am having with iMovieHD and edited HD footage from a Canon HV20 camcorder.
After importing the footage into iMovie and then adding simple transitions and titles, the resultant part of the edited footage loses some of the quality of the original footage. This is not noticed when playing back on my computer screen but it is visible when viewed on my 50" plasma TV.
I can find no answer as to why this is the case, but my question for this forum is to ask if FCE creates the same 'feature' with edited HD footage, specifically when paired with a Canon HV20.
Although I will continue to use iMovieHD (sparingly), I need to be sure that an investment in FCE will yield better results.
Many thanks in advance.
eMac Mac OS X (10.4.10) 1GB RAM

1) viewing the graphic on your computer monitor is viewing a low resolution proxy of the final product
2) LiveType graphics are created in the animation codec which is high quality. Once you place it in your FCE timeline you will degrade that LT graphic to the level of quality set by your sequence setting.
3) Use the .ipr file not QT conversion
4) View the project on a broadcast monitor, and not the computer to get an accurate representation
good luck

Quality issues with the picture in FCE

Hi there.
I'm editing a 3 minute film in FCE HD (3.5.1). It was shot on a Sony PD150. I transfered the footage via the capture in FCE and I think I got the settings right!
Anyway, looking at the footage in the browser it says the following:
Frame size: 720 x 576
Compressor: DV-PAL
Alpha: None/ignore
Pixel Aspect: PAL CCIR-601
Field dominance: Lower (even)
I've tried to start using LiveType (2.1) to make a good opening title and closing credits. With those two done and saved I opened FCE, imorted them as .ipr files and dropped them where I needed them in the timeline.
However, I noticed that the quality of the font is not a patch on how it was in Livetype. I understand this is a problem that has been discussed many times here but I cannot seem to find a solution to my particular problem or more importantly, understand what is going wrong.
To try and describe the problem; When looking at the Livetype text it is blurred/slightly pixelated - but only on the horizontal lines if that helps.
Now I thought this was just a livetype problem but when I now look at the video footage up close in the viewer or canvas window, it seems to have the same problem. I'm not sure I'm just being over paranoid with that though...
I've tried to put down all the info I can but if anyone needs any more please say.
So can anyone please help me to understand what is wrong?
Many thanks in advance,
Adam

Hey Tom. Thanks for that. I've changed the settings and it made it a little better but still not as good as the Preview on Livetype. It may help you to know that I think I chose a very difficult title - Bright red text on a black background?!
Anyway,
All this has drawn attention to a bigger problem though that you may be able to shed some light on...
The whole issue may be with the original footage. As I said it was shot on mini DV and I've takena look at the footage (through the Finder to the Capture Scratch folder for the project) and viewed it through Quicktime. It has a similar issue. A friend of mine who works with FCP called it 'combing' effect on the edges.
Could I have done something wrong when I captured the footage from the camera via the project?
More info: Footage was shot on a PD150 with miniDV. I transfered the footage via ANOTHER camera - a bog standard sony handycam. Would this cause any problems? Or have I cocked up the settings when I imported? So how do I know what settings to import if someone hands me a DV tape and says it was shot on xxxx camera...???
Sorry for all the questions, you're helping a lot.
Adam

Importing/Exporting LiveType Files in Final Cut Pro HELP ASAP!!!!

Heres my issue...
I created a little text animation in LiveType and then decided I wanted to bring it into FCP to put together with a company video I created as the intro. I rendered/exported it from LiveType and then took the final exported video and imported it into FCP. All I can say is, I am very frustrated, because the animation looks very good exported from livetype and in FCP when playing back on the timeline, but when I export it out of FCP, it looks awful and quality/size is all messed up. I made sure to set the canvas in LiveType to match 720p and tried every exporting size under the sun on FCP from 720, 720 16:9, even SD and other weird exporting features and I can not get it too look ok.
Then I tried just going into FCP and Importing just the Livetype file WITHOUT rendering it, and I till had the same issue.
Not sure if I am still mis-matching my settings and/or canvases within both programs, but all I know is I have tried many options and still no luck. If anyone would like to see screen shots, or actually compare video footage of what I am doing when Im exporting (using a screen capture program) let me know and I can email it to you and we can go back and forth to discuss and show images and what not. I really need to get this done for a client project and would help me if I had this answer soon.
Thanks!
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Don't bother rendering a movie out of LiveType, simply save the project file and import it into FCP.
LiveType outputs in the Animation codec only, so you will always have to render. Using the project file has another advantage -right clicking and choosing "Open in Editor" will drop you back into LiveType where you can quickly make adjustments, save and return to FCP with the changes in place.
To set project properties, you can use the Place Background Movie function in LiveType. Drop a short clip in and it will automatically adjust the properties to match. You can delete it once you have the settings. If you have Anamorphic video, you will still need to adjust the pixel aspect ratio -exact settings depend on the format, you haven't told us that yet.
Again, depending on the format, you might have to set the Anamorphic flag in FCP's Item Properties for the LiveType file.
When you view the FCP export in QuickTime Player 7 (not QuickTime Player X) make sure that the High Quality Playback preference is selected.
Typefaces in video:
Avoid using small, thin, delicate and Serif typefaces. They never work well.
A well known example of a Serif font is Times, which you should avoid at all costs in any case -it makes it look like you made the titles in MS Word. Stick with San Serifs with clear, bold strokes. Helvetica is a popular example of a San Serif.
If your titles are white, reduce the brightness to around 90%. Apply a shadow or border to distinguish them from the background. While it might sound counter productive, applying a tiny amount of blur can help too.
One more thing: Don't put your email address in the body of your post. The forums are open to anyone who wants to read them and by extension, web bots. They will harvest the address and bombard it with spam. We don't do personal email on the forums anyway -we share information amongst all users.

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