Quality and "jaggedness" of imported motion files and or graphics

For starters all my settings are set to 10 bit NTSC 29.97 i with either 10 bit set for
sequence or uncompressed on the timeline.

My graphics and or motion files look fine pre-render; but once I render out the timeline
(FCP file is a 30 sec commercial) it seems like half of the video information dissappears
in the viewer on the screem.

My sequence setting on RENDER is set to use 10bit RGB ; so this is not the problem.

I know the sequence is set to EVEN fields but I can' figure where the quaility hit is coming from.

thanks in advance

Mark Pigott

Take a look at the "My effects look awful" thread in the FAQ and see if it helps:

[www.lafcpug.org]


www.derekmok.com

thanks, it mentions "safe RT"; i know where this is...

question though. At present , it is set to unlimited RT;
what is the difference between safe RT and unlimited RT.

sorry, i checked the settings, it is indeed set to Safe RT, and not unlimited.

One sure 100% way around it is to do all the "motion" effects in a 3d package,
such as 3ds max; which has the summed area table filtering and the supersampling
built into all renders (if selected) and render out in fields at 720x486 SD.