Ken Burn pictures look really low quality

Putting high quality pictures into movie and when I ad ken Burns affect they look very low quality as the effect is in process. Do I need to add a lower quality pic? Any suggestions would be very much appreciated.
Keith

they look very low quality as the effect is in process.
usual advice:
never judge pic quality within iM (lowered preview quality) nor on a computer either.. (iM is for TV delivery.. iM≤6 ... )

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I have to believe we are doing something wrong...but where?

First, thanks for your help...we are running on the sundance deadline in 2 days...
I had heard about setting up the dvd so that it would adapt the dimensions to different players, but decided against it since its a subtitled film. Its just too hard to follow the story if the subtitles go superimposed above the image. And it looks like the only way to garantee that they sit below is to letterbox...I´m also pretty sure I set up my fcp timeline correctly (23.98 anamorphic, but stop me if I´m wrong there!).
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2. Do the subtitles in DVD studio pro...
3. Then what? I dont see a way to encode in compressor within dvdsp... is encoding in dvdsp lower quality?
As for the other questions...I am just doing tests now on a single clip of around a minute duration so I have been using a bit rate calculator. The final film is 105 minutes.
I checked out p 230 of the manual and it seems like any menu with buttons that link to assets needs to get rendered...I´m confused isnt the point of menus to link to assets...how can I do this and not comprimise quality...and is the rendering something I need to do before burning, or does it happen automatically?
I havent been able to get access to a regular dvd player yet so I´ve just been testing on my computer...but compared to how the clips play in final cut the difference in resolution on the same computer is really significant.
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happens for over 15 minutes, when i try to add
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https://discussions.apple.com/message/5207261#5207261
When I import images into final cut express and apply keyfram effects with panning and zooming a.ka. the 'Ken Burns Effect' I find that image quality is very poor. This occurs in most BUT NOT ALL images in viewer and canvas windows as well as rendered footage. The video issues are severe interlacing artifacts (horizontal blurry lines) as well as motion jitter along edges.
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Ken burns effect looked great when the image was in a transition, but bad when it was not. For example: Imagine a 5 second cross dissolve between regular video and ken burns motion image. When image becomes clearly visible in the latter 2.5 seconds of the transition it looks excellent while panning/zooming. When the transition finishes there is a sudden change to poor quality in the pan/zoom.
-The render bar on top of the timeline is dark-green for good-looking images, which according to the final cut manual, means 'no render necessary'
-There was nothing special about these render-not-necessary images that I could find in resolution, settings, etc.
-Good looking images were jpegs, gifs, and tiffs
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-This seems like a bug to me.
Eventually I just used a screen recording application called screenflow to capture my video playing in canvas window at 99% in real time.
This worked.
Hopefully someone can explain why rendered images never look good and what format works to get the dark green line and avoid rendering all together and these problems.
I don't mind converting file formats beforehand as long as they work well

The render bar on top of the timeline is dark-green for good-looking images, which according to the final cut manual, means 'no render necessary'
This is misleading. It simply means rendering is not necessary for playback. It does NOT mean that the material does not need to be rendered.
100% zoom level is as close to how your video actually looks that a computer monitor can display.
You never said what format you're working in.
You always have to render still images. You're making video, and they're not video.

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it almost feels like the effect speeds up as it pans over the photo, then jumps to the next one and speeds up again. i
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Quand je grave un diaporama fait sur iMovie sur un DVD les photos, que je fais bouger par le système Ken Burns ont des tremblements importants qui diminuent la netteté de la photo. Pouvez-vous m'aider ? Merci

quand je grave un diaporama fait sur iMovie sur un DVD les photos, que je fais bouger par le système Ken Burns ont des tremblements importants qui diminuent la netteté de la photo. Pouvez-vous m'aider ? Merci

Hi
Google translate: When I burn a slideshow made on iMovie onto a DVD pictures, I'm moving through the system Ken Burns tremors significant decrease the sharpness of the picture. Can you help me? thank you
Not 100% sure of Your problem but
• Ken-Burns effect = enlargment and movement = quality loss dep. on enlarging the picture
• Using iMovie'08 to 11 for a resulting DVD = quality loss = as non of them can deliver 100% interlaced SD-video over to iDVD - loss is made when going from Event's (or iPhoto) to Project's and can not be mended later
• Shakiness (tremor) - can also depend on wrong frame per second rate (PAL = 25fps and NTSC = 29.97 (30)fps (SECAM = 25fps))
• Using the anti-shake/stabilize function in iMovie also depends on up-scaling the picture to try to follow motions to lessen the shakes = picture quality loss
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• FinalCut (any version)
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as I find DVDs made via these and iDVD to be so much better.
Please use English - as this is the forum common denominator so that all that can help will try and many many more can benefit from the answers. It's better that You use Google translate and see if translation works than that the rest of the world will have to guess what's it all about.
Yours trying - Bengt W

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