Motion export blurry in DVDSP

i exported a sequence from motion
720 by 480 to animation and just basic ntsc dv
i imported the file to DVDSP to use as a motion menu
and some of the text is fuzzy and just not crisp...its really frustrating
the video itself plays beautifully as a standalone .mov but when imported into a DVDSP project..becomes grainy and just not crisp...

after investigating through the threads, it seems as though this is a commin problem
THERE MUST BE AN ANSWER to creating motion menus in Motion and having text appear crisp in DVDSP...or else someone really dropped the ball...
please and thank you
Jon

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Hi,
does anyone has this problem of motion exporting audio shorter than the movie. it's in sync but the audio got cut off few second before the movie end.
48KHZ 16bit export as the original audio media.
also try 44.1 but still not working.
thankx
JP
PS: had also tried export audio only, still got cut off before in & out

Never mind,
it's solve.
I have to export as DV movie with 48KHZ. cannot make it a custom DV movie
DUNNO y
thankx
JP

Images In Motion Are Blurry

Anyone know why images I am importing into Motion from Photoshop would be blurry? I am importing them at 100% so not sure what the issue is, or will they look fine on a Plasma?

hi tom,
and the photoshop file is set up for RGB not cymk?
i read the recent post about project sizes and anamorphic.
I always create a motion project that is 1024 x 576 and squish it to Full height anamorphic ( ie 768 x 576) on output only. I import the motion files into FCP, squish em there, add clocks, freezes, bars and tone etc from there and then export FHA from there. But I just tried the other way and it works well except that I have to remember to set the imported footage to not anamorphic. Thats a small pain, not much but a little. I might forget one day, i'm like that. In my way you judt bring in the footage or files or whatever and they are what they are no problems. I'm sure someone will have a good reason why i shouldnt so it like this, and i'd be interested to know.
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FRAME "GLITCH" AFTER MOTION EXPORT

HELP!
I'm having a problem with some sort of frame "glitch" when I export my Motion project to Quicktime.
Everything will be playing back fine & then there will be one frame that looks all whacked out.
Just for that split second.
It's in different places every time I re-export.
You can view the bad frame here: http://www.photropics.com/bad.jpg
& the good frame(right after it) here: http://www.photropics.com/good.jpg
This project has a lot of movement going on including a particle emitter i the first 20 seconds but that's not where the glitch is.
You'll see that in this particular export, the glitch is actually in a clone layer that I'm using as a reflection of a video.
This is inconsistent though, it can be in different places in the scene in every export.
Export settings are on RENDER BEST / ANIMATION / FULL RESOLUTION / 720 X 480
Same as my setup.
Very frustrated!
I'm starting to question my machine.
I'm working with a PPC G5 Dual 2 Hhz. machine with 3 gigs of RAM.
It's got the original graphics card in it, which is always a problem for me but will that affect the export quality?
I know it's not an Intel machine but it should be able to handle a 1.5 minute clip from Motion. Shouldn't it?
I'll have a new Intel machine in a few months but need some help with making this work if possible.
Thanks in advance.
Any help is appreciated.
JRM

Thanks for the response Adam.
I didn't mean to be so vague about the details originally.
I am exporting out of motion as a Quicktime movie to eventually be brought into DVD Studio Pro & burned onto DVD.
I tried bringing the file directly into DVDSP as a Motion project & it took 18 hours to do a build but
as a QT Movie, it only takes minutes.
If I change the animation codec, will I lose quality? I want it to be as clean as possible.
I have cleared the RAM cache & with the same result.
I might try the FCP import idea but I haven't used Compressor before. The last time worked with video & I used FCP was when it was in version 2 so I'm somewhat new. I've crashed coursed in FCP 6, LiveType, Motion & DVDSP so I just haven't gotten to Compressor yet.
Tell me though, did you look at the samples I uploaded?
Is this just a weird dropped frame or what do you think?
I also tried exporting at Half size & the glitch is still there & in the same place.
I thought it might be something within my motion project in conflict but there's nothing in the particular spot that is starting or stopping or anything.
Anyway, thanks again.
JRM

FCP 7, viewer clear, but canvas and export blurry

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imported into FCP 7.
They look great in viewer, reasonably sharp and crisp, but them very blurry in canvas and when I export to quicktime movie (not using quicktime conversion). Been using FCP 7 a couple years but my knowledge in many aspects is sub professional.
Tried creating a new sequence to get the sequence to match the settings of the quicktime prores422 screen capture movies but to no avail. The settings of the sequence are not the same as the screen capture movies...I even tried to change the sequence settings but no luck (then exited FCP without saving so as not to screw anything up).
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Name: Apple ProRes 422 for Interlaced material (High Quality)
Description: Apple ProRes 422 10-bit video with audio pass-through. Settings based off the source resolution and frame-rate.
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Estimated size: 412.09 MB
Audio: multi-track passthrough
Video Encoder
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Height: (100% of source)
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Padding: None
Frame rate: (100% of source)
Selected: 15.002
Frame Controls: Automatically selected: Off
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Multi-pass: Off, frame reorder: Off
Automatic gamma correction
Progressive
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Spatial quality: 50
Min. Spatial quality: 0
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Min. temporal quality: 0

Here is additional information on the problem.
My sequence includes mostly screen captures, but also some other video (settings below) and some JPEGs. The other video and the JPEGs look fine...both in canvas and when I export sequence to quicktime. The screen captures look terrible...text is very blurry. Same screen captures look fine in my viewer, just goes awry when in canvas and export.
Format of screen capture clips (quicktime 10 screen capture > compressor prores 422 HQ):
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pixel aspect ratio: NTSC - CCIR 601 / DV 720x480
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Vast majority of clips are the same as screen capture clips. But just in case its part of the problem, I have also have a couple video clips of that have settings:
frame size: 720x480
compressor: DV/DVCPRO - NTSC
data rate 3.6mb/s
pixel aspect: NTSC - CCIR 601
field dominance: Lower/even
also have a couple JPEGs, their settings are:
frame size 2500x2084
compressor: photo-jpeg
field dominance: none
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Edited video is exporting blurry as matched source, but looks great in the monitor before export?

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This is a still frame in FCP when it's not playing:
http://img835.imageshack.us/img835/4552/stillw.png
This is when it is playing:
http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/9269/moviee.png
And this is an export to DV - PAL:
http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/4733/dvpal.png
What format do I need to be exporting to plug into DVD authoring? If I can export ok to this format maybe I don't need to worry, although I'm still confused why export to DV - PAL is giving such a poor picture since I thought that was like the lossless format for post editing?
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FCP exporting blurry...?

I am importing .mov files that someone is capturing using Camtasia. When I import it into FCP its looks great in the viewer. The text on the pages that are in the video are nice and clear, but when I view it while editing and view it in the canvas its blurry, even after rendering or if i export it.
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For a full list of editing formats check out FCP Easy setup.
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Here a useful tutorial on how you could get started with mpeg streamclip:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2070861&tstart=0

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Hi,
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hope anyone out there knows a soultion!
thanks!

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