Quicktime image quality problems in FCP

I'm trying to do a basic video tutorial on how to use a tool on my website. I captured the movie from my screen with a product called SnapZpro which saved the movie as a QuickTime movie. However when I import it into FCP to do some mixing with other graphical elements, add some transitions, edit the audio and add some other screen shots, the image quality is awful. I have rendered the file & also exported with no compression and still no luck. The original QT movie capture is crystal clear. Any ideas on how to get the original quality or other ideas on good ways to create a tutorial where a fair amount of editing needs to be done?
Thanks,
Ed

You can spend several productive hours using the search function. We see this topic and variations often. Try searching for SnapzPro, tutorial, screen capture, stuff like that.
We don't know what your movie settings were for your captures using SnapZ nor do we know your sequence settings within FCP. The most likely explanation is that there are some dramatic changes between the two. Your SnapZ clip is being scaled to fit the timeline and this can have a severe resolution compromise.
bogiesan

Similar Messages

Imovie slideshow image quality problems

I have created a slideshow in imove with music of a wedding my wife and I shot. For some reason the image quality is really poor. I tried going through idvd and I tried exporting it as a quicktime movie and burning it with toast but they both look crappy on the tv when we watch them. Please help because I need to get it out to the clients.
I have done this once before and I did have some problems but somehow got the quality we wanted. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Wayne Sawyer

If some slides show a lot of "jaggies" the project may have been affected by a long-standing bug in iMovie that adds jaggies to photos when you share the project with iDVD. If we grant permission for iMovie to render the images when sending the project to iDVD, it messes them up pretty badly.
If that's what happened, you'll need to re-import those images to replace the badly-rendered clips.
Lots more here:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2105598&#2105598
Karl

HDV image quality problems on capture

Hey gang! I just got my first tape shot on a Sony Z1U, and I'm trying to caputre with the M10U deck. My problem is that the footage looks fine in the camera, and looks the same when played from the deck (via component video) to two different monitors. When I capture, the image is remarkably different - darker, with muddy colors, lousy skin tones. I'm using the HDV 1080i easy setup, and I've recalibrated my cinema display to its default (calibrated was even worse!) I've also tried using HDVxDV to capture, and iMovie to see if there was something screwy with my capture settings. Any ideas?

The computer monitor is the LAST thing you want to use to judge your image quality. It will never give you a true representation of what your footage looks like:
Shane's Stock Answer #2:
ONLY JUDGE THE QUALITY OF YOUR MATERIAL ON AN EXTERNAL NTSC MONITOR, OR AT LEAST A TV.
1. Disable overlays on the canvas
2. Make sure you've rendered everything (no green bars at the top of the timeline
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=24787
DV (and especially HDV) footage requires large amounts of data and many computations. In order to maintain frame rate and be viewable at a normal size, only about one-fourth of the DV data is used in displaying the movie to the screen. However, the DV footage is still at full quality, and is best viewed thru a TV or NTSC monitor routed thru your camera or deck.
HOWEVER...that is the stock answer for DV, but helps explain why your quality looks bad. Unfortunately, HDV does not allow you to view your timeline in real time like DV does. HDV, being HD, requires an HD card and monitor solution:
Shane's Stock Answer #25 - HDV external Monitor Viewing
To view HDV on an external monitor you are going to need to purchase a capture card, like the ones Decklink or AJA offer. They will both play out HDV in real time. The catch is that you cannot view this on a regular TV or NTSC monitor. Since this is HD, an HD monitor will be needed.
HDV cannot be played out of FCP via Firewire because it's Long GOP structure is too taxing on your processors to spare the system resources needed to drive an external monitor.
(Wow, two Stock Answers in one post. I think this is a first.)

Image quality problem when Printing Booklet to PDF

Hi!
I've searched the entire web trying to find a working solution for my problem but I wasn't able to find anything...
I've created a A5 vertical page document in InDesign CS6, filled with High-Quality photographs. I now want to print it as a booklet (to a PDF file) so I can save it and print it in a professional establishment.
The problem is, when I do this, the image quality turns out terrible...
I've checked my Print Settings and I can't find anything wrong...
Setup - A4 horizontally, and Graphics - Images - Send Data - is set to All.
Is there anything else I can do/try? What can I be doing wrong?
Here is an image of my print settings:
When I export the document normally to PDF the image quality is fine, but it doesn't have the booklet layout which I need, it just exports single A5 pages one after the other. If I try to print this pdf as a booklet in Adobe Reader the same thing happens to the images, they loose quality.
Please help!!
Thanks : )

Hi! Thank you for your quick and helpful answer.
There's definetly something wrong with the PDF printer properties... It was on standard default, as you said... but it still didn't work when I changed it to press quality (also tried high-quality print), changed the dpi's and other few settings on the advanced preferences
My solution was to download a free-trial of a professional pdf editor/creator (Soda PDF) and print it to that program... but, of course, this is not a long-term solution...
I'll try and see if I can find any help in changing the settings to get the best quality in printing of the adobe acrobat program.
Thanks!
p.s: I think I meant to say "graphic press" when I wrote professional establishment, I'm not sure how you say it in English.

Safari 7 in Mavericks-Web image quality problems?

Suddenly, my browser image quality has gone south. Web page images load, but they are very poor quality, and blocky. I have made no changes to settings, nor updates. Any ideas on how to fix this?

Workaround: the video had been embedded as
<object type="video/quicktime" data="mov.mp4"
height=470 width=550>
</object>
I changed that -- using the HTML 5 video tag instead --
<video height=470 width=550 autoplay>
<source src="mov.mp4" type="video/mp4">
</video>
This works. Perhaps the prior syntax is deprecated?

Idvd image quality problems??

Will the length of video on a dvd created with idvd affect the quality of the image? I have just created a dvd which is pretty packed 3.7 GB are used on the dvd. Most of the video looks great. However some sections later in the movie (which when shot at night were much darker anyway) are pretty pixelated. I have created a DVD with a main movie, chapter selections and an extras folder which contains a bunch of 3 minute clips. The only place I really see teh pixelated image problem is while viewing these 3 minute "extras" clips.
I am wondering if by creating a "packed" disk, the overall image quality was degraded. And, is it a general rule of thumb that you should not try and cram in as much video onto a disk as possible?
Thanks for any help.
Pete

IDVD looks a the length of things ... technically you can put two hours total video on your dvd (this includes motion menus, slideshows, music, etc) You select Best Quality to do this
And yeh, generally a longer video will affect the quality of the DVD. In general, tho, you need the "strongest" video you can get to stand up to the MPEG2 compression
DVD Studio Pro with Compressor, gives you more encoding options and you can become adept at "fudging the numbers"
But in my opinion, with iDVD, anything longer than 90 minutes total can lead you to potential probs

JPEG Image Quality problem

Until yesterday, when saving an image as a JPEG I would click "Save As", select my folder and the Image Quality dialog box would pop up and I would then select 12/Maximum as the image quailty and hit "OK". Thereafter, every time I saved an image, Photoshop applied the same settings as the previous save i.e., 12/Maximum was pre-selected and I would just hit OK and move to my next image.
However, since yesterday Photoshop is no longer pre applying the last setting used and is defaulting to quality 8/High every time. Si everytime I save, I am now having to slide the slider to 12 which is kind of interrupting my work flow.
I have tried delete my preferences settings in the hope that this glitch would be fixed by resetting the program, but the problem persists.
Has anyone experienced this and how can I fix it?
Thanks.

AFAIK jpeg quality settings are sticky per file, not globally (at least inside Photoshop, but that association may not transfer between applications).
So if the files are out of a camera they probably already have a quality level assigned, and Photoshop is honoring that. Try a low setting on a test file and see what happens when you resave that. It should be the same.
And...oh, never mind. You probably know already...cumulative quality loss and so on...

WVC200 Image Quality Problem

Hi,
I have an WVC200 internet camera connected to WAG325N ADSL router. Image quality is too poor. There are lots of different coloured dots on image. I attached current image settings and image samples. Images are taken in good light conditions. Any solution ideas?

So after two weeks I got a replacement WVC200 and I'm still not satisfy with the image quality, I'm not sure if the replacement is also bad or I'm expecting to much of the camera. Here are two sample images.
What's your opinion?
If you have any suggestion on how to improve the quality please let me know.
Message Edited by globalmcs on 10-23-2007 08:31 AM

Quicktime 7.1.5/Final Cut Pro 4.5 Image quality problems

Hi.
A lot of the time when I export .dv video into a lower quality video (.mov, .mp4) there are weird lines that appear in the motion. It's hard to explain, so I will post an image of it.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/1003/KhyronJinn/Screens%20with%20a%20purpose/Q uickTimePlayerScreenSnapz001.jpg
*Just tried again*
This happens with ANY export to any settings, even at the highest quality and almost identical hard drive space. I've also observed this problem when using still frames in Final Cut Pro, these lines of motion (I guess you could call them?) from one frame to another when extracted from a still. I'm at a complete loss here.

Use the De-interlace filter in FCP...If your using Compressor, best bet is to de-interlace in Compressor.

Slideshow Image Quality Problem

This problem is visible when creating a slideshow from Canon 300d crw images using a dark gray background with light gray wash at 90 degrees and 100% opacity. The background looks good when in 'play' mode in Lightroom. When exported at 1024x768 with 80% quality and played back in Acrobat reader, the background has a number of thin stationary horizontal lines that appear in each slide at the same locations. They look like banding that occurs when viewing 24-bit color gradient test patterns on an 18-bit monitor. I am using a 19" Mitsubishi Diamondtron CRT running 1248 x 960 with 24bit color. These multiple lines look similar to the two lines every Trinitron CRT exhibits, but are unrelated. I have used this CRT for years now and have never seen anything like this before with a 24 bit color image. Anybody else seeing this?

To expect every photo to conform to a ratio of 4:3 would be unrealistic.
Sorry, but that is the way iDVD works!
'Standard' TV (and iDVD is designed to produce TV content) uses a 4:3 aspect ratio. (With iDVD 6, you may also create a 16:9 project.)
See Preparing images for DVD slideshows at http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iDVD/6.0/en/17.html

Photos in quicktime -- image quality degrades significantly

Hi ... I am attempting to create a slideshow. Images are currently in iPhoto.
I read that the best presentation quality for the images would be achieved creating a slideshow in iPhoto and exporting the show. Then open the show in Quicktime.
When I play the resulting show in Quicktime Pro, the images have degraded significantly.
Am I missing a step in here someplace?
The final show will be played on a large screen.
Thank you in advance.

I tried saving as a png, but I got the same result. It's like
my black becomes a dark grey and my midtones go light/
white.

Creating video screen ads 384 x 240 px quality problem in FCP

I am a creating video ads for my client for an outdoor event which will be shown on a big video screen.
I contacted the Audio visual company who are supplying the equipment and techy guys for the event and they told me to create the ads at 384 x 240 pixels in Quicktime.
So i have created a custom sequence in FCP of 384 x 240 pixels with a pixel aspect ratio of (PAL- CCIR 601 720X576), field dom is lower (even) and qt settings as DV-PAL but when I bring in any graphics or film or motion graphics to that sequence and render it the quality is awful...any ideas?

Well, part of the reason your quality has been awful is because you're using DV compression settings on your sequence.
Create a 1080i ProRes sequence. Bring all your elements into that. Create a 16x10 matte in photoshop and overlay it on top of your sequence, to avoid losing anything when you make your final crop.
Edit your sequence. Remove the matte. Export a self contained QT at the sequence settings.
Open that file in Compressor. Select your desired video settings. In the geometry tab, resize to "Custom", enter 384x240, maintain aspect ration by cropping.
Submit.

Help! Image Overlay problems in FCP

I am working on a web video project in FCP 7.0.2 that is working with both video and images. I need a watermark overlay in the bottom right corner for the duration as well as various image overlays and I use moving images as transition between scenes. Whenever I lay an image on top of video, the video speeds up. Audio stays in real time but the video gets really fast. Whenever I try to use an image as a transition, during the transition and soon after it's completion, the screens flashes black.
I recently completed a project that is the exact same as this one in regards to settings and images and had none of these problems. Any idea what the issue is?

Sorry for being vague. I think I solved it. I used Amerisoft Video Converter to convert 1280 x 720 MTS files. With the original project, I made mp4's with the convertor. With the newer project, they are all .MOV's and they aren't getting along with my previous sequence settings. I am re-exporting them.
The transition isn't a pre-programed transition. I take a .PNG and set a motion tween in the motion tab and have it slide across as a transition from one scene to another. It's just a moving image file. I also have a logo overlayed on the bottom right corner. Knowing all of that, can you think of why the image files weren't getting along with the .MOV's and the sequence?

Image quality problems

What is the best way to import an image into iBooks Author? More specifically, what format should I use for my image?
The problem I'm having is that I imported a logo in a PNG format and when I preview my book on my iPad, the image looks distored around the edges and blurry. The image is just a red web 2.0 looking font on a white background. It's not that the edges of the white background are blurry, but the edges of the red font against the white background in the image is blurry. It looks like the image is being compressed in some way.
I also ensured that the image was kept at its original size, so it's not being resized by iBooks Author.
I thought maybe something was up with the PNG file format so I tried JPG too, but I still had the same problem. I'm saving/exporting the photos from CS5.
Any ideas what might be going on?

Correct. I'm keeping the original image resolution of the image of 105x50 pixels. I'm not stretching it or resizing it within iBooks Author.
I was just messing around with this some more and trying a bunch of export options from Photoshop and I found something that worked. When I selected "Save for Web & Devices" and saved it as a PNG-24, it displays cleanly on my iPad--no blurry or rough edges.
I haven't noticed this problem with other images, but I think it was something to do with the color pallette I had for this image against the white background. I noticed that in selecting "Save for Web" it changed the colors slightly but it now works, so I'm assuming that might have something to do with it.
I haven't tried saving it through Preview, but I hadn't thought of that, and I imagine that might do the trick too.
Thanks, K T, for your time.

DVD Image Quality Problem

I just began using Final Cut Studio and elected to burn my DVD from IDVD as I am not yet comfortable with Sutdio Pro. When I play back my disc on any computer MAC or PC it plays fine. However, when I play it on a set-top DVD player two problems occur. 1) I get occasional brief pilelation in a scene. It doesn't always happen at the same place in the playback. 2). Some of the video scenes (especially those which I have extended by slowing the motion, even thogh I have applied frame blending) tend to flicker. Neither of these problems occur when the DVD is played on a computer/monitor or even when played on a tv monitor using the s-video output from a computer. But both happen on the three set-top players I have tried. Any thoughts. Thanks.
G-5 Quad Mac OS X (10.4.2)
G-5 Quad Mac OS X (10.4.2)

Welcome to the world of authoring DVDs. It is very difficult to troubleshoot the exact problem. For starters, iDVD did its job, it made a DVD compliant disc that plays on a DVD player. It plays better on your computer DVD player for a variety of reasons. Your computer has much more sophisticated hardware/software for DVD playback than does a tabletop unit. It could simply be that a progressive scan tabletop DVD player may give you better results. The point being that two different players can yield different results. Artifacts/ pixilation can be by-products of MPEG2 compression (which is what iDVD does to create a DVD). It is helpful to have a basic understanding of what makes a DVD a DVD. When you record on mini-DV you are recording to an already compressed format. Arguably a very good compressed format but compressed nonetheless. This means information is being tossed at the point you are using the camcorder. iDVD, or any DVD authoring app on any computer, Windoze or Mac, compresses this material even further into the MPEG 2 format for playback via a tabletop DVD player. Now mini-DV has about 30 frames per second (NTSC). MPEG (in a very basic nutshell) takes a picture about twice every 30 frames and uses this as a reference frame and then only records the motion difference between that reference frame and the next time it creates a reference frame. So you go from 30 frames/second to TWO, with motion difference! This is how one hour of DV which is 13 gigs, can be compressed to fit onto one DVD. Two hours would be 26 gigs of DV compressed to one DVD! Hence the general quality difference between one-hour and two. And keep in mind that is compression will show artifacts that may have always been there but you didn’t see until the other 28 frames where tossed out. Slow motion can also be very difficult to encode. I have found that going under 50% slow-motion is problematic. One work around is to create your slow-motion sequence and send it back to tape and then re-import from the tape. Now it is no longer a software effect but an actual 29.97 fps clip. Clips with a lot of motion, quick pans & zooms, hand held shots and so on, will also suffer more artifacts because the whole frame is in motion and thus difficult to encode. Which is why a tripod is recommended to keep the frame steady!
Just some thoughts… welcome to the Discussions!
Mike

Quicktime image quality problems in FCP

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for