Final Cut Express HD Help

I'm a teacher and I made a video for my students. I used Snapz to capture the video and it plays crystal clear. However, when I use Final Cut to edit it, and export it, it came out very blurry. I used File>export >quicktime converstion the then .mp4 using .h264 and HD quality; but the image is really blurry. My video is shot at 1920x1200 so the original video is higher than HD quality. Do you know what's wrong? I feel that it must have been some settings- where it compressed the video too much.

A number of things. 1920x1200 is not a video format. You have to work in a correct video format. What codec are you using from SnapzPro? Try using Photo-JPEG. Finally, SnapzPro does not generate frame rates correctly. They appear as 10fps in Final Cut and have to be interpolated. I don't know where you're trying to get to but an HD size image using H.264 will have to have a very high data rate like 18,000kb/sec to be good quality, and will make for a very large file.

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