Monitor quality and motion

Weird question. Does monitor quality effect how well Motion runs? I have a new Mac Pro and an old Westinghouse monitor (still saving for a new one!)

Not that I'm aware of. Your GFX card, processor speed and RAM memory all have something to do with it though.
Andy

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Codec quality of motion clip

I have a question about codec quality when creating slow motion effects in FCP 6 vs. motion 3.
I slowed down a clip in fcp 6 by 50% with simple frame blending and then sent the same clip to motion 3 and sent it through optical flow. While the clip from motion looks better I was surprised to discover the codec quality (when analyzed in fcp) stated it was of least quality and the same clip with the 50% speed reduction in fcp stated it was most quality.
I’m confused. ? I’m screening on a monitor not the computer screen. I would have expected the opposite. Can anyone explain?
Footage was shot DV NTSC 29.97
Here is the analysis of the fcp clip:
Video Track 1 (40.2 MB)
Duration : 00:00:10:03 (at 100 % speed)
Frame Size: 720x480
Color Depth: 24-bit Color
Codec: DV/DVCPRO-NTSC at Most Quality
Frame Rate: 29.97 fps
Average Data Rate: 3519k/sec (117k/frame)
Here is the analysis of the motion 3 clip:
Video Track 1 (11.8 K)
Duration: 00:00:20:06
Frame Size: 720x 480
Color Depth: 32-bit Color
Codec: at Least Quality
Frame Rate: 29.97 fps
Average Data Rate: 1k/sec (0k/frame)

Perhaps the "quality" being referenced is simply the interlace flag. If you open the clip in QuickTime player, open the properties window (⌘J), and select the Video Track, is the High Quality box checked? If you check it and save the clip (⌘S), how does it affect the analysis?
Patrick

Pictures lose quality and audio in a video clip starts to clip after render

I enjoy doing various random small projects with final cut studio, but there are a few problems I am still having in doing so. One is I record a local basketball league's games and make highlight videos out of them. Another is I like to convert dvds into files and make favorite quote montages or edit movies to have clean versions for the kids. I do not have professional equipment, yet. Final Cut was the first step I chose to take to upgrade. So I'm sure most of the stuff I use is not the greatest choice, but I'm just trying to get the best out of what I have. And when I have problems that I know are bad, I need to find out how to fix them.
Problem with basketball highlights:
I am not sure which is the best format to convert the video to in Final Cut that would make it work the best. Also a problem importing pictures.
The camera I use to record is a Sony Handycam Exmor HDR-XR100. I am confused about importing in Final Cut so I usually import through imovie, which saves the files as .mov and then I go to the finder and put them in Final Cut. Clicking on more info shows me a 20 minute clip (of basketball in this case) is 14.29gb, quicktime movie, 1440 X 1080 dimensions, apple intermediate codec, integer (little endian), timecode, channel count: 2, total bit rate: 102, 385. When I record with the camera I usually turn off the button 'easy mode', which shows on the screen a better quality image going from HD to HDHQ and 5.1 surround sound. Sometimes the render times are ridiculously long for small files and the quality decreases or what not so I was just wondering if there is a good extension to use or format that would be better for use in final cut. Obviously some extensions don't work in final cut, but the most familiar I've used are .mov and .avi (though I don't use avi anymore because I've been told it's not the greatest idea)
Another recent problem I'm having is with pictures in these highlight videos. When I record basketball, I like to record and show everyone their stats along with the video at the end of each game. So I create an excel document with all the teams and numbers and then save it as a .pdf file or picture to load into final cut and add to the video at the end of each game highlights. A similar thing happens though, when I load it in the browser from there the quality is great in the viewer. As soon as I load it in the timeline, the quality drops drastically and I can't even read the numbers in the viewer or canvas. When I took a final cut training class I remember hearing something about a button that makes final cut work faster by reducing the quality of the media it's displaying, but doesn't affect the output. I was wondering if maybe there is a simple button that I have set wrong and maybe that is the reason this is happening, or maybe I just am making it a bad choice of extension again I don't know.
Problem with video files not recorded by me:
Other times I don't record from my own camera say if I want to make a movie montage of all my favorite movie lines/quotes. I would like to edit movies as well to make them clean for my kids to watch. In any case, I convert the dvd to a file on my computer, usually multiple extensions and just use the one that works and also has the best quality, and then load it to final cut. (Is there a program in Final Cut Studio that would be better for this? Right now I use iSkysoft Media Converter to convert these files). As soon as I load it to the timeline and render it, the audio skips like a hiccup throughout the movie. This is when I notice the skipping is only really audible in the audio when music starts to play. I thought that was kind of weird. I can't pick it up as much when there is just dialogue, but when a song comes on or a scene begins with music it makes the entire audio sound bad.
So maybe the problem isn't what extension the file is and I need to look at more details such as dimensions I'm guessing. If you have any examples I would appreciate it. I am sorry I am so difficult haha.
Thanks again for all you're input and help. What goes around comes around and I really try to do the best I can in everything I undertake. I really appreciate it.

I called it "making a montage of my favorite movie clips." It is what it is. Just how I said it. I do stand up impressions part time and sometimes, believe it or not i get recorded, or I record myself and "make a montage of all my favorite movie clips" or scenes from a movie or anything for that matter. So as illegal as that is I apologize that you want to monitor that stuff.
So lets step out of our assumptive sheriff shoes and stop hazardly guessing at anything that you would disprove of. Everyone else has been very helpful. Besides, all these questions centralize around a basketball highlight video I am making for a coach, that I myself recorded and own the copyright to, to be specific and hopefully clarify your hunch.
As a video editor you also often receive footage with numerous formats depending on who you're working with. Not everything is an illegal transaction that you assume it to be. Thanks

A question about Frame Rate in FCPX and Motion 5

I use a Canon Legria HV40 shooting at a frame rate of 25fps
Is it essential to set the frame rate in Final Cut Pro X and Motion 5 to 25fps as well?
The reason I'm asking this is that I recently put together a series of clips shot with the HV40 in a FCPX project with the default settings of 60fps and it didn't seem to matter - everything worked as expected..

FCPX automatically 'confirms' any clip rate to the Projects settings.
But ... more rendering to do (=time), 'un-eveness' could lead to blur/quality loss (=how do you divide 25 frames over 60 equally?) ...
Best practice is: cam, project, delivery = same frame-rate.
Exception: for nice slow-mo: HFR on cam, low fps on Project ....

Final rendering of video is low quality and too bright

Here is the link to my original video clip, the video clip in the project, and the final rendered copy all on my monitor at the same time:
http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t63/shadon1nja/FixingRenderQuality_zps124306a5.png
Here is the text of each video when fullscreened screened:
http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t63/shadon1nja/RenderText_zpsd1240701.png
The picture got downsised which makes it harder to see the issue,but here is most of the it:
The final copy is lower quality and way too bright. Noticibly too bright. The clean darks turn into rough gray, and the quality is noticibly lower as well. I have checked the "use maximum render quality" and tried exportiing in AVI and MP4, and nothing is fixing it. Any ideas?

First of all, what type of file do you need? If you're looking for lossless quality then I would suggest exporting a quicktime file with the Animation codec or some other lossless codec. However, these type of files are huge and they might not play back on your desktop. But, if you're just going to put this video on the internet when you're finished with it then I would suggest starting with one of the Youtube or Vimeo H.264 presets and modifying it to match your clip. It still won't look as good as your original, but you can't expect miracles when working in SD and exporting to H.264, which is a very lossy codec to begin with. If you want to try exporting to a lossless Quicktime or AVI, then change the settings so they look something like this:

Monitor Quality - who to Design for?

I put a kind of watermark/hover image on a site not long ago to add content the owner inisited on but I thought didn't help the look of the page. We went back and forth, and all the time the site owner kept asking for it to be darker, darker, darker... Eventually, it wasn't a watermark and it was abandoned after a shed-load of work. Recently, same site-owner looks at a graphic and asks to tone it down but this time, we're looking on my monitor and he's happy. Then I get an email asking for toning back up a bit. It's really not that important but I'm begining to suspect that it might be a monitor problem but this time I just said no.
So here's the question. Maybe I'm wrong to design to my studio monitor which is high(ish)-end and color-managed? It's one thing to try to design to different size/resolution of monitor but now I'm thinking quality and set-up too!
Martin

Thanks both.
I think what I am suffering from here is working for a person who has no idea about the web or computers (after 200 emails between us, why should he?). I think I'm learning a few customer relations pitfalls er..
...I mean, opportunities!
This website seems to have been built by a series of tweaks and before you know it, the work load has doubled. Still, I'm teetering on the edge of a rant here so, back to the point.
It's not just about color profile Paula, it's about the monitor's ability to even show detail. I think that a design can look really graceful with careful use of images, borders, grads and color but, I've realized that not everyone will see the effect if it's very subtle. My watermark came about after designing and after the request, "Can we put a sample of every image on the front page thingy?" I stuck in a row of thumbs to kind of show how it awful it would look and guess what? It got approved! I tried for a compromise and added the row as a row of very pale grayed out images and a full-color hover and, kept getting the darker, darker, darker until I'm in it up to my neck and hours of work have passed me by.
Oh, I don't mind so much. At least it gives me something to do whilst I while away the hours, days weeks waiting for content! I think that what I learned most, is that some components of a page might not show on a poorly adjusted or inferior monitor, that that might have some accessiblity implications and that it isn't just text that needs contrast. On my 26" HD screen that's color managed it all looks so lovely but....
Ah well, a few more tweaks await.
Martin

Monitor quality for LR4?

Has anyone described the effects of monitor quality on using LR4 to edit color photos? What effect
is this likely to have on quality?
Thank you,
Hersch Pilloff
[email protected]

I think this is an excellent point that many monitors may have problems at
low brightness values. Since human vision is adaptive and the eye tends to
evaluate colors relative to what is the whitest white and the eye sees very
similar brightnesses if the white sources have quite different temperatures
as long as they are physically well separated.
Are there any other examples you can describe? I have a background in
laser physics
and quantum optics but this seems to have a strong physiological
orientation and I have only an elementary knowledge of this.
Thanks,
Hersch Pilloff
[email protected]
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External Monitor, iBook, and SwitchResX

I recently got a 19" external monitor for my ibook this Christmas. The screen image is blurred and stretched. I called both the monitor company and apple, but neither one was helpful.
I saw some discussions about SwitchResX. I downloaded it and have been tinkering with it, but am very confused. Can anyone help me?
ibook g4 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

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Problem: 24 fps video does not play in CS5.5 source monitor without choppy motion. 30 frame will play fine. I took the same 24fps shot, using the exact same setup parameters, and played it in my CS5.0. No problem. I did them side by side and checked to make sure everything was EXACLTY the same. The 24fps shot played smoothly in the CS5.0 source monitor. Can anyone tell me what the solution might be to get the CS5.5 to play smoothly? When I rendered it on the timeline in CS5.5 it played smoothly on the timeline. Perplexed.

Thanks Tood,
Here's the other info. I am running CS5.5 on a windows 7 ultimate 64bit (service pack 1) OS. All of the recent updates have been installed on both the OS and the CS5.5. The source footage is H.264.mov from a nikon d7000 at 1080p 24fps. My video card is an Nvida GeForce GTX285. My processor is an Intel Core i7 3.33GHz with 12GB ram. I am running no third party codecs or effects. I am using the Mercury Playback engine GPU accelerator. I am using a DSLR24 frame project setting.
Here is the problem: When I bring a 1920x1080 24fps.mov file into my DSLR24 frame project, or any project setting, in my CS5.5 and open it in the source monitor it plays as if it is trying to catch up; stuttering and skipping; it plays the same on the sequence timeline until I render it. I get no error messages. When I bring the exact same file into my CS5.0, with the exact same project settings, it plays perfectly in the source monitor and on the timeline without rendering. When I bring in a 1280x720 24fps.mov or any other size file into my CS5.5 in any project configuration, it plays perfectly smoothly. Everything plays smoothly without renedering in the source monitors of my CS5.0 and CS5.5 except for a 1920x1080 24fps.mov file in CS5.5. The exact one that I need to play there.
I would have no problem cutting in my CS5.0 if it intergrated with audition; which is why I bought the CS5.5.
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I have a sequence shot on the 550d/rebel T2i, I converted it to prores 422 and edited in fcp. What is the best export that i can do to preserve quality and prevent pixelation.

i have a sequence shot on the 550d/rebel T2i, I converted it to prores 422 in MPEG Streamclip and edited in fcp. What is the best export that i can do to preserve quality and prevent pixelation. Rite now, i have been just clicking on the export to quicktime function, but the quality of the footage is completely reduced and colours look desaturated and there is pixellation compared to the original camera footage. Also is there anyway i can render and export the sequence using the original footage (like an online edit or something). Also is there anyway to upgrade the final quality. I have Compressor, Dvd Studio pro, Motion, Color and Cinema tools, i dnt know if they are of any use to me and have no idea how to use hem or what they are for also.

>What is the best export that i can do to preserve quality and prevent pixelation
The best way to export is entirely dependent on what you plan to do with the exported video. For example, if you plan to go to DVD, the export process is different than if you plan for web delivery or for iPhone viewing. Compressor has presets for most final delivery formats ... start with those.
>is there anyway i can render and export the sequence using the original footage
Yes. In FCP, go to File-Export->QuickTime Movie. Check the box to make the movie Self-Contained and use Current Settings. Do NOT "Recompress All Frames." The resulting self-contained movie will play on any Mac that has the needed audio and video codecs installed.
>is there anyway to upgrade the final quality
No and maybe. While you technically cannot improve quality over the original, you can possibly 'enhance' the aesthetic quality of the video using various filters in FCP or Color.
-DH

Final Cut Jpg Quality and Export.

Hi there, new to this forum, I have a question in 2 parts.
I am new to final cut Xpress, really loving it, but am having some quality concerns. When I use Jpg images which are very high res, the quality seems to degrade within Final cut, oddly Imovie 09 seems to deal with the images better and therefor the exported quality seems to be better! Also does anyone have tips for the best quality exporting settings or Codec Options to then be burned onto DVD
Cheers
M

#1: Don't use JPEGs. JPEG is a lossy format; it recompressed every time its saved. Use uncompressed TIFF, PSD or PNG images instead whenever possible. Also don't rely on the Canvas window to judge quality; the Canvas only displays a proxy of full quality. Use a properly calibrated external TV monitor. And finally, make sure the image in the Timeline is rendered FULL.
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-DH

Monitor Quality in Question

Hi-- I love my imac G4 17in except for the display, especiallly the text. Seems to have a shadowy effect, not that crisp. I recall several people feeling the same way on these boards a few yrs ago when i purchased it. My question is has apple improved the monitor quality with the new iMacs? Thanks

Manual and user guide:
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I want to add some motion graphics to my Muse site. I have built the graphics in AfterEffects. When we still could export swf files, I did, the swf is 22.1 MB, I couldn't export it smaller without losing quality and getting some ailing. What should I do?

This is NOT the correct answer and really not the least bit helpful. Submitting a message on this forum was a last resort after going through the help section.
You should consider addressing this error message in the help section, as I've seen several people with this issue. In my case (after surfing around the message boards for over an hour), I discovered that I had to upload the exported website to my FTP to see the animations working. So, yes, they seem to have been integrated properly once the site was actually live, but when you preview your HTML file in the browser AFTER exporting, it looks like something is amiss and that really threw me off after I'd spent so much time creating the animations.
Again, the help section should indicate in a side note that you must go live with your site to fully test that your animations work properly. It would save people a huge headache.

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Hi guys, i wanted to ask two questions. The first is that i wanted to export videos to upload onto YouTube and the best format for this seems to be the CD-ROM format that is available on the version i have, the only thing is my videos still appear low quality and pixellated even though i am editing good quality videos......i was wondering if i was doing anything wrong/or can do something better?
Also, when i am editing, can i place logos or maybe pictures onto the video e.g. with TV channels they have a logo at the corner of the screen. I also wanted to black out text on screen but i don't seem to be able to do that.
Thanks a lot.

QuickTime has never supported anything more than "playback" of MPEG-1 formats and conversions to QuickTime formats will never include audio.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG-1 a "format" created a long time ago.
iMovie 7 can import and convert most MPEG-2 formats (DVD and HD media) and include audio. It also uses QuickTime for the work.
MPEG Streamclip does allow "batch" conversions. Do them while you sleep.

Why is it that when I connect my iPhone 5S to my Windows Vista computer, the photos made with my iPhone are all of very low quality and most of them are turned upside down?

Why is it that when I connect my iPhone 5S to my Windows Vista computer, the photos made with my iPhone are all of very low quality and most of them are turned upside down?
On another note, the iPhone tells me that it's ''busy'' when opening a photo on the computer.
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Are you using the front or rear camera? When you say they are low quality, are you referring to file/pixel size, or how the picture looks? As far as upside down, how are you holding the phone? Older versions of Windows have issues reading the Metadata from the pictures and will not display the same.

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