One pixel line around rendered graphic!

OK, in my confusion about this, I turn to the guys who have always helped me in the past - the Edit Gods of LAFCPUG!

I have a JPEG graphic that has a white background around the image, but the image itself (a JPEG image of a graph of arrows) goes right to the edge of the screen (720 x 480). I scale it down to fit within the screen then I select Matte --> Color and use the eyedropper on the JPEG, I get a solid white color that I then place on V1, with the JPEG on V2 and I Nest that puppy. There is now a green line on it in the timeline - the graphic looks OK, but is slightly rasterized on the curving lines, so I render it....now its crisp, but I can see a one pixel white line around the graphic!

This shows on both my broadcast monitor and the flat screen for the client. This happens every time I choose to scale down an image with a solid color background within FCP.

I never used to get this "one pixel" line around scaled images - anyone know a fix for this?

FCP 6.0.5
2 x 2.66 Ghz Dual Dore Intel
13GB RAM
Mac OS 10.5.6
latest Quicktime, etc.

Maybe no one has ever seen this before? There is a weird one pixel white line around my my white matte background and JPEG graphic.

Could you post a screen shot of what you're seeing?

Hi Tom,

That's part of the problem - it only shows up on my broadcast monitor and the LCD for the client, not on the computer LCD's (Dell 2407WFP) in Final Cut.

I'll try and post a digital shot of the broadcast monitor - its quite obvious on the screen.

> it only shows up on my broadcast monitor and the LCD for the client, not on the computer
> LCD's (Dell 2407WFP) in Final Cut.

I've seen this plenty of times. There are a few tricks I do to get around it:

1. Use a Soft Edges or Mask Shape filter to soften the borders;
2. Instead of using a Color Matte to fill in the background, I use a version of the exact same graphic underneath;
3. Crop all sides by one or two pixels.


www.derekmok.com

Hi Derek,

I'll give that a try - here is the iDisk URL of an image taken off my broadcast monitor - I have enhanced the contrast so the white line is more visible - but believe me, in real life its plain to see.

Your image in't coming through. The link is not correctly posted.

Sorry about that - try this one:

[www.sendthisfile.com]

Derek, the Soft Edges did the trick! Thanks very much!