Screen Capture blurry - no mater what

I have a screen capture of software that is saved as a quicktime file. no mater what I do it is blurry in FCP. Even if I use compressor to convert it to DV first. It is not in the right aspect ration, is that what is causing my issues?
MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.8)

I save from SnapzPro using the Animation codec at 30fps. I then have to use Cinema Tools to conform it to 29.97 (this bypasses a bug in FCP where you import your footage and it suddenly becomes 10fps). Then I import it into FCP, use this trick to get a timeline:
www.proapptips.com/shane NON STANDARD CODECS IN FCP
Then I edit, export as a reference movie and use Compressor to compress it for the web.
Shane

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I screen captured something from the internet using snapz pro (I tried DV-ntsc, h.264, and now using 'none'). It looks great when its motion, but after render, looks bad in final cut. I tried bringing the file into motion and then exporting a loss-less from there and then bringing into final cut, but its the same problem of being blurry.
the video was captured 4x3, though its larger than 720x480. Thats one of the reasons I threw it into Motion, because it would standardize the size in the case that final cut didnt like it. I need to get rid of the blur. help.
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Also, if your file is LARGER in Motion, as you said, and then you drop it into a DV sequence, not only will it shrink, but it will inherit the DV 5:1 compression.
What size are you using in Motion? What settings? If you want it to look that good in FCP, you need to use the same settings in FCP. If you are adding it to a DV sequence, then you will have to live with the DV compression. OR, try it in a DV50 sequence. Better compression, higher bit rate.
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This is probably a dumb question because I am not usually the one working with video, but I really need help! I am doing a demonstration on my computer and I need to make it into a DVD. I used Windows Media Encoder 3 to capture my screen and then save it as a wmv. This file looks fine. I edited the video in Premier CS4 and it still looks fine. But when I try making the Premier file into a DVD using Encore, it makes the quality look horrible. Pictures become really pixelated, and text just becomes big blobs. I tried to transcode using the highest setting, but this did not help. Is there something else I can do? Thanks for any help!

First, the screen capture to WMV will heavily compress the footage. WMV is a streaming media, delivery-only format, and is not meant to be edited - strike one. Now, PrPro, while it will Import WMV, will have to basically convert it to DV-AVI to allow for Frame-level editing. DV-AVI conversion, even at an internal basis, does a little bit of compression. Though nothing like the quality hit just going to WMV, there is a tiny hit there is some - strike 2 (well, probably really strike 1.25...). Then, you need to get to MPEG-2 for the DVD. That is another heavily compressed format. When starting with a DV-AVI, it does a nice job. When you start with a WMV, to though the process of converting it back to I-frame footage to edit, and then compress the heck out of it again - strike 3. This does not make THAT much difference whether you do the MPEG-2 conversion (Transcoding) in Encore, or from PrPro. The key word is "much." You might want to experiment with using a standalone encoder to create your MPEG-2, rather than either Encore, or PrPro. Some are better. The ones used by Hollywood with 10-pass encoding run into the tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of dollars, and are run by experts, who do nothing else all day, 5 days per week. Besides going to a stand-alone encoder, you will need to bit-budget to find out how much material vs the bit-rate, will fit your disc.
The better workflow would be to NOT use WMV, but instead an I-frame format/CODEC in the first place. DV-AVI (though slightly compressed) would be an ideal choice. Then, the ultimate quality to MPEG-2 would be to Export from PrPro is something like the Lagarith Lossless CODEC, and use a stand-alone encoder and bit-budgeting to get the ultimate 100% DVD-compliant MPEG-2. That would be Imported into Encore, and if not detected automatically should be set to Do Not Transcode.
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I am working on a howto video for my college. i need to show students how to get rid of viruses on their pcs. i'm doing all of the editing on FCP but i need to take screen captures of the pc to show them how to start and remove viruses on the scan. I'm having a hard time getting the images to look good in FCP after i do a screen capture at every step.
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At what monitor resolution should i be doing my screen capture at and at what dpi should i be using? what image format does FCP prefer the best? how can i make clean images in FCP where you can read text in the image.
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"the image i'm capturing from the winxp machine is at 1280x1024 and the image looks really pixelated when i import it into FCP5......."
Pixelated or 'blured'? Doesn't really make sense that reducing an image's size would cause it to pixelate, normally that occurs when you increase the size.
Have you tried doing a prieview render to quicktime to see if it's only a display problem within FCP? Have seen issues like that before but the end product has been pretty good, even though FCP shows the images as being choppy.
If you have a decent image manipulation program (like photoshop) try reducing the screenshot's size before importing it into FCP, that'd be the way I do it. I see that you have said you 'tried making the image that exact resolution' but it didn't seem to work. How did you re-size the image?
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I am trying to screen capture a simulation session in captivate 6 and then edit it in premiere pro cc 2014 when I import the video into premiere, it is blurry

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OK - back to my caveat. When I select preferences in Premiere and look at the playback setting, I get options for Preroll, Postroll, Step forward/back many, mercury transmit, Audio device, Adobe DV and disable video output when in backgroud (all of which I am not smart enough to comprehend).
I apologize for my ignorance. So as I continued to read your question, I, of course googled "how to set playback resolution in premiere pro" and I learned how to do that.... They were set to 1/2. I adjusted to full and it seems to be clear now.... I think you just helped me, help myself. Thank you! Did I get it right? Is there any more you can recommend when it comes to taking a screen capture video and making it into an awesome demo?
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What's more: In my screen capture, i also want a mouse-click-sound each and every time the mouse is clicked. This is not "system audio", because the computer doesn't play a sound for every ordinary click. The capture software must add that sound. (I'm aware i can add the sound manually in post production, but want it recorded together with video.)
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Myles, thanks again, here are my findings with Camtasia:
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DOES record overlays like adjustment brush's colour selector
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Burn your project to DVD (or first to a folder then onto DVD) and see how it looks on a standalone DVD player. It may be a problem with your screen resolutions v native resolutions, or a lack of preview rendering (is there a red line above your timeline - if so press enter).
On top of this you have the absolute problem that your are asking PRE to reduce from a 1440 x 900 screen resolution to a 720x480 DVD format. How well it does this you'll really only see by burning a DVD - but if it doesn't look good enough you might consider using a 800 x 600 screen resolution to record your screen captures and reduce the amount of downscaling PRE does.
Which Snagit Export format did you use to import to PRE? What other export formats are available?
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