Tiff export distortion. Help!!

I have been trying to export tiffs (16-bit, original size) in Aperture (3.0.3), but they come out looking terrible. These are tiff imports of film scans. They look great in Aperture, but when I export them and open them in preview they are distorted, grainy, huge "snowy" grain. Exported as jpegs they look fine--just tiffs seem to be effected. And this seems to be a recent problem. I have successfully exported tiffs since upgrading to 3. The only thing different here is that these files have been processed with noise ninja. Could this be the issue? If yes, then why are only tiffs affected. Like I say, jpegs still look fine. And why do they display fine in Aperture?
Any help would be appreciated!

An update. This seems to be an issue with how Preview scales large images. The images in question are film scans that are something like 3.5 feet wide at native resolution. When I zoom in to 100% the distortion goes away. It is only when scaled smaller than 100% that the distortion is present. This is reassuring, but still problematic, as I obviously cannot always view these images full size. Anyone else run into this problem? Any suggestions?

Similar Messages

I am getting inconsistent audio distortion after export, please help.

When I export with the following settings I am experiencing a lot of distortion on my 2nd audio clip which is 48000hz - 16bit - Stereo.
This happened when I changed my sequence settings from 23.976 to 24fps.
Any thoughts? This was filmed on a gh4, using a sennheisser wireless g3 and the on board audio recording. Never had this issue before. Whats strange is that the distortion only occurs during the second clip... I can embed the video that helps.

I seem to remember having audio issues at transition points way back with PPro 1.5 and the fix was to export/render just the audio to an uncompressed wav, place that wav on it's own track and mute the others before rendering the project out. That eventually put me into the habit of doing roundhouse sessions of the audio into Audition for tweaks, noise, normalize, etc. and mixing down back to PPro. The only audio effects I use in PPro anymore are track gains to meet specs in the loudness radar at final export.
I'm really digging how tight the entire suite is, and I could go on how well it's working, but that would raise trouble with some so I'll stop here.

Help asap - LR tiff export 3X larger than Photoshop tiff export

I need to send 15 tiff files through an FTP site for an upcoming exhibit, and having exported files to the required specs find that they are huge, compared to exports straight from Photoshot set to exactly the same parameters - almost 3X larger to be exact. These are 16-bit grayscale scans of 4X5 negs.
I could export each one directly from Photoshop of course, but I like the look of the files, which I have altered slightly using the develop settings in Lightroom 2.
What to do? There are tight deadlines, of course. I should get these out tomorrow if possible.

Jan,
Lightroom can only export greyscale images as RGB (3 channels), hence the file being 3 times larger than Photoshop. However, you can use the Edit in Photoshop command (Ctrl/Cmd+E) to send the Lr edited greyscale file to Photoshop, convert it back to greyscale (single channel) then save it from there.

Export= distorted image...?

hey!
I'm using standard pal 48 on capture, project settings and export. image/video look fine in fcp viewer when capturing and editing, but when exported, it gets streched vertically (cirlce becomes an oval). this happens nomatter what format i export it in, (except sometimes (seems randomly) it works with H264.) and if i export it in compressor, as quicktime movie or using quicktime convention...
even a quicktime moviefile imported in compressor, and exported to dvd, looks fine in software viewer/preview, but comes out distorted.
please help!

To view your widescreen file in QuickTime Player:
Press command and J keys. In the Properties window, click on "Presentation". Click the checkbox next to "Conform Aspect Ratio" and choose "Clean". Do not save the file in this format unless it is only going to be viewed on a computer.
In DVD Studio Pro, click the green icon that shows the thumbnail of your film, in the graphic display at top left. Go to the Inspector at bottom right. Click on the "Display Mode" button and change it to 16:9 Letterbox.

Pixel Distortion - HELP!!

I have a problem in certain pictures with pixels distorting in LR. Its not a preview problem because the distortion comes along if I export the file. Here are two sample side-by-side screen grabs:
http://clarkcreative.ca/l-psd_r-LR.png
http://clarkcreative.ca/l-psd_r-LR_2.png
Left side - Photoshop, Right side - Lightroom. (opened in PSD via lightroom edit command)
200% crops. Its a jpg capture. There are no adjustments/presets applied to either. I have tried to re-import renamed/tiff but I get the same results. Can someone tell me why this is happening?

An Intel Pentium 4.
I also noticed that those strange pixels remain uneffected when you do crazy things with the exposure, contrast, brightness, recovery, etc, even though the rest of the image gets altered. It's like they are holes in the images. It's definately a bug.
Good luck. I'll keep shooting RAW so I won't have that problem (Nikon D70s).
Steve

Garageband export distorted

When I'm exporting my project from garageband 11 to itunes or my hard drive, the track is distorted (especially the bass drum is distorted, sounds really bad). In my project a have: programmed drums, real bass guitar and electric guitar. No track shows red on the bar, not even close. It sounds good in GB but not when i export. I'm aware of the "Export project at full loudness" button. When i tick it in my exported track sound ok, but the sound is toooo low! I want the same volume as any other song. I tried what this guy is doing but it doesn't work for me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCHnXloH8_Y it still sound distorted.
My import levels were not too high when i recorded bass and guitar.
All I want is my project to sound as good it does in GB when i export, and with full loudness...
Had the same problem for years and feels like i tried everything, tried with different recordings/songs etc. Been many hours trying to fix it.
Help anyone? really need it.
Thanks \m/

I think i got a way to solve this issue. I worked with a projekt with about 20 tracks with real instruments, With good volume after export, here's what i did:
1. Make sure that your input signal isn't to high (I Use a firewire interface to plug in guitars, keyboar and vocals). You have to make sure that there's no distortion on input. Espesially with intruments with bass.
2. The track volymepanels to the left can't show any yellow or red, not even close, my loudest track was about 50%.
3. Before you export turn down your master volyme down to the right, alot. (around 20-40% maybe...)
4. export to disk, NOT to itunes. Desame song on itunes (withot any equalizers or extra volyme) sound distorted, but not if i send it to disc. I have no idé why........!
5.then send the same song back to GB, and do what this guy's doing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCHnXloH8_Y
turn up the peaklimiter as much as you want or intill it sounds bad and distorted.
6. I exported with the "project at full loudness" button ticked in both times and it worked for me. I also compressed to mp3 both times. the "project at full loudness" button has to be ticked in the second time when you use the peakLimiter anyway.
Be really certain of number 1 and 2. Still experimenting with this so let me know if it worked
\m/

Can't Export please help

I am having a lot of trouble exporting my final project; I need to export it to a DV tape (North America), and each time i try it comes out slow and choppy on the camera, and always gets frozen on the same image while audio runs till the end. I followed the iMovie help, exporting it to quicktime in a DV format, but how do i get this final quicktime movie onto a DV tape? And is there anything i need to change with frame rates to improve tape quality?
Thank you

Hi to all of you with export to cmcorder problems!
I, too, have had difficulty getting my iMovie to DV camcorder. Sometimes, everything works well, but if my movie is over 60min and I need to change the DV tape in the camera, I cannot get the export to 'Share selected clips' properly.
I have resorted to exporting to QT movie and then reimporting that movie into a new iMovie. If I need to just export the second half, I split the new QT movie into two parts at the place I want to begin recording the second portion. I then move the first part to the clips pane where it will not interfere with my exporting.
(If you choose to go this route but need more free space, you can delete the original movie once you are sure that the QT plays ok).
So far, this process has worked fine.
I think there is a 'bugginess' about iMovie 5 and its versions with the new updates of QT 7. I have never seen such jerkiness, stuttering of video and freezing on video frames. The playhead jumps over my transitions to the next frame or five, as if there is nothing in between. I can only see my transitions if I manually drag the playhead along over them. Thus,I have been unable to view my movies in iMovie after it gets up to over 1 hr. I NEVER had this problem before the QT and iMovie upgrades.
I have found that my subsequent DVDs look great and have no jerkiness. I save all my DVD projects as disc images and preview them in that form before burning. No problems.
I am looking forward to iMovie 6 to address these problems.
I have FCE HD, but have gotten so used to iMovie that I find it quicker for the movies->DVDs that I am doing right now.
I will probably change to FCE at a later time.
My point is that all the suggested 'fixes' don't always work, and until the app is updated and is BETTER, we all just have to try all the suggestions and keep posting so that we can all learn together.

I keep getting an error when exporting. Help

I have been trying to export a video, and when ever is 1/2 way it gives me a system error.
Can anyone help?
thanks.
G5 2.3Ghz Mac OS X (10.4.1)

This is often caused by a corrupted render file. You might try isolating it by the old technique of marking in/out for half of the timeline, then halving that, etc... until you find the offending area, then remove the renders for that section by selecting it and pressing ctrl-b, ctrl-b (that's control-b twice). This will disable/enable a clip and force a re-render...
Patrick

Server goes out of memory when annotating TIFF File. Help with Tiled Images

I am new to JAI and have a problem with the system going out of memory
Objective:
1)Load up a TIFF file (each approx 5- 8 MB when compressed with CCITT.6 compression)
2)Annotate image (consider it as a simple drawString with the Graphics2D object of the RenderedImage)
3)Send it to the servlet outputStream
Problem:
Server goes out of memory when 5 threads try to access it concurrently
Runtime conditions:
VM param set to -Xmx1024m
Observation
Writing the files takes a lot of time when compared to reading the files
Some more information
1)I need to do the annotating at a pre-defined specific positions on the images(ex: in the first quadrant, or may be in the second quadrant).
2)I know that using the TiledImage class its possible to load up a portion of the image and process it.
Things I need help with:
I do not know how to send the whole file back to servlet output stream after annotating a tile of the image.
If write the tiled image back to a file, or to the outputstream, it gives me only the portion of the tile I read in and watermarked, not the whole image file
I have attached the code I use when I load up the whole image
Could somebody please help with the TiledImage solution?
Thx
public void annotateFile(File file, String wText, OutputStream out, AnnotationParameter param) throws Throwable {
ImageReader imgReader = null;
ImageWriter imgWriter = null;
TiledImage in_image = null, out_image = null;
IIOMetadata metadata = null;
ImageOutputStream ios = null;
try {
Iterator readIter = ImageIO.getImageReadersBySuffix("tif");
imgReader = (ImageReader) readIter.next();
imgReader.setInput(ImageIO.createImageInputStream(file));
metadata = imgReader.getImageMetadata(0);
in_image = new TiledImage(JAI.create("fileload", file.getPath()), true);
System.out.println("Image Read!");
Annotater annotater = new Annotater(in_image);
out_image = annotater.annotate(wText, param);
Iterator writeIter = ImageIO.getImageWritersBySuffix("tif");
if (writeIter.hasNext()) {
imgWriter = (ImageWriter) writeIter.next();
ios = ImageIO.createImageOutputStream(out);
imgWriter.setOutput(ios);
ImageWriteParam iwparam = imgWriter.getDefaultWriteParam();
if (iwparam instanceof TIFFImageWriteParam) {
iwparam.setCompressionMode(ImageWriteParam.MODE_EXPLICIT);
TIFFDirectory dir = (TIFFDirectory) out_image.getProperty("tiff_directory");
double compressionParam = dir.getFieldAsDouble(BaselineTIFFTagSet.TAG_COMPRESSION);
setTIFFCompression(iwparam, (int) compressionParam);
else {
iwparam.setCompressionMode(ImageWriteParam.MODE_COPY_FROM_METADATA);
System.out.println("Trying to write Image ....");
imgWriter.write(null, new IIOImage(out_image, null, metadata), iwparam);
System.out.println("Image written....");
finally {
if (imgWriter != null)
imgWriter.dispose();
if (imgReader != null)
imgReader.dispose();
if (ios != null) {
ios.flush();
ios.close();
}

user8684061 wrote:
U are right, SGA is too large for my server.
I guess oracle set SGA automaticlly while i choose default installion , but ,why SGA would be so big? Is oracle not smart enough ?Default database configuration is going to reserve 40% of physical memory for SGA for an instance, which you as a user can always change. I don't see anything wrong with that to say Oracle is not smart.
If i don't disincrease SGA, but increase max-shm-memory, would it work?This needs support from the CPU architecture (32 bit or 64 bit) and the kernel as well. Read more about the huge pages.

Media Encoder is not producing sharp .mp4 exports, any help please?

Hi all, I've been trying for a while now to export my After Effects CC 2014 project using Media Encoder CC 2014 as a MP4 file. I've chosen 'match source' settings, VBR 2 pass with various bitrates (even extremely high bitrate values) but my video is still not sharp. I've experimented with making the frame rate also higher but that doesn't make a difference. I've also tried using the 'Maximum render quality' option but that also doesn't help.
In the 'output' preview, the images look sharp like in the original project. But I can't get this in my final file. Anyone know why? Thank you very much.
Here are my settings:

MPEG compression (h.264 is MPEG) has a limited color space, compresses color, and has specific frame sizes that are required. Also, your media player has limitations and scaling problems. So do web pages. Nothing is perfect. The green text against the bluish background is going to look bad when you throw in compression artifacts from color and the fringes around the green text against the white background are also color compression artifacts. The solution is to first, modify the design to colors that work. You have to be sensitive to the color requirements of the space you are working in wither it is TV, WEB, Print or any other media. Most of these problems are color compression artifacts caused by the limited color space and limitations of MPEG compression.
The best hope for a design like this test to work is to first, make sure that your output is a legal h.264 size, second choose colors that will work against white backgrounds, third render a lossless master and finally, use that lossless master as the source for your MPEG compression in AME. You also make sure that your media player is not scaling the video.
If you absolutely have to have the video 392 X 640 then you are going to have resizing artifacts with H.264. You either have to accept that or change design of the web page and the HTML 5 code for the player. You also need to consider HR displays like the Retina displays on Macs or 4K displays on Windows machines or the displays on new mobile devices because they are going to want to see video and images that are 2X as big as a standard display. You'll also have to code for HR displays in your HTML. If this were my project I would make the master comp the nearest 2X the size needed for a standard web page that was a supported h.264 frame size, carefully choose my colors and design with known limitations in mind, render a lossless master in 10 bit or better 444 color, then send that to AME for compression. The web page would then be designed and the player coded with the video size taken into consideration.

Cannot get some photos to share/export. Help

Four of the 75 photos in an album I am sharing absolutelywill not export or copy or email in any way, no matter what I do. A "forbidden" icon (a diagonal slash though a circle) appears in the edge of the photo whenever I try to move/export it. Help. When I put it in an email, the email is blank.

Try selecting photos in Organizer and creating a new album by clicking:
Share >> Online Album
Then choose new album and Photoshop Showcase
In the dialog use the link next to Already a member?

12 GB imovie export , any help please ?

hi all, i was wandering if any could provide some advice about a current imovie task im working on
i have 120 mins of home footage shot in HD which comes to just over 12 GB's when exported, im looking to now burn to a dvd, yet due to the size i need to compress it to ever single or double layered DVD, Can any one advise the best method to do this or recommend software i could use to do this best ,
any help would be great thanks

Thanks for the advice, yet ideally i was hoping to use Toast to burn the dvd, and was wondering the best way in which i could keep the best quality of the movie and the format type to use to achieve this
Same basic tenets apply. Toast will still have to convert your intermediate file to MPEG-2. You do, however, have much more room to play around in with Toast. It will convert the audio to AC3 which means more space for video content. In addition, it also allows the user to more finely adjust the video data rate to fill the DVD to capacity. A basic rule of thumb would be that the higher the data rate, the better the quality. However, the quality will never exceed the quality for your source input. What you want to do is use the highest data rate that will fit on whatever layer DVD you are using and still be within the player's capacity to process. (I.e., you want a data rate the has neither too much nor too little data per unit of time.) If you are familiar with the settings, you can do this manually or simply tell Toast to use "Fit to DVD Compression" option instead.

All my music is distorted- Help

I just bought my first Ipod today... Yeah!!!
I'm having a issue with the music that’s being played back on my ipod, I downloaded the latest I-tunes software, placed one of my CD in my laptop it converted it and sync'd with my ipod. When i play any song on my ipod it's all distorted.. Like all you can hear is the music- Can't hear the words of the singer very well.. I hope this is descriptive enough... Help Help...

The headphones that came with my ipod were bad.....

Envelope Distortion help?

I am trying to make an envelope with 2 objects. One is a symbol set of circles, and another is a patch of stars. every time I try to make the envelope, it keeps saying that there needs to be a single path, I'm assuming that means the circles need to become 1 path somehow. I don't know what that means. I've read the directions over and over and I don't understand what I'm doing wrong. I hope someone can help.

uploader still isnt working for some reason, so I'll try to explain it better.
I have 2 objects, a circle and a patch of stars.
I used the circle and created a symbol set which I colored and grouped.
I grouped all the stars together and placed the group of stars on top of the circles.
Do the stars need to be made into a symbol set too?
Then I tried to use the envelope distortion but it kept saying there needs to be a single path. Sorry I can't upload a picture...

Export Column help, ntext data doesn't export as a usable file

Hello, I'm failing at exporting what appears to be blob data in a database. I setup a data flow task that is pretty simple,
OLEDB SOURCE
     |
DERIVED COLUMN
     |
EXPORT COLUMN
Source is sql server 2000 db in 2005 instance with mode (80)
Derived column is simple expression that parses a path and filename together
Export column uses the blob column (which is unicode text stream plus new filename), Truncate and BOM are checked
This process seems to work successfully, but the resulting files are garbage. For example, one is a .txt file when opened, it contains exactly the contents of the database column for this row which looks like this excerpt:
begin 660 Call # 8114 Modules for METRO1 CU.txt
M34544DaQ($-5("`-"D1!5$$N0U4Q*#$I.E)53
Obviously I would expect real text here. Can someone help me understand what I am not doing correctly?
Let me know if you need more information.

I just went through the list, and tried several files, they are all garbage. a .jpg opened in paint can't open, a .doc file in word doesn't open, and .xls in excel doesn't open.
Contrast the two databases:
Adventure works Document column contains entries that look like this:
0xD0CF11E0A1B11AE1000000000000000000000000000000003E000
The magic database has entries that look like this:
begin 660 so60680.xls MT,a1X*&Q&N$`````````````````````/@`#`/[_"0`&
once exported through SSIS, the adventure works files look like this:
ÐÏà¡±á                > þÿ               5        7
The magic database files look like this:
begin 660 so60680.xls
MT,a1X*&Q&N$`````````````````````/@`#`/[_"0`&
I used the same 2 files for each databases both times.
From what I can tell sql server doesn't know what the magic db blob data is. So how is the magic user interface making the attachments available to the end user?

Tiff export distortion. Help!!

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for