Jpeg in FCP HD

The problem I am havng is that when I bring a jpeg image onto a timeline, it seems to blur in the canvas window while playing but again comes in full focus when Playhead is stopped.

Kind of the way it is unless you have a NTSC monitor hooked up and are looking at that. What you see in canvas window is not what you get

mike

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DV 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.

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You need to do our FAQ Shane

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Mike

You have a valid point about the NTSC monitor and I donot have an ntsc monitor hooke up but ther are other jpegs in prior projects which donot lose sharpness while on the timeline in the play mode.

Heh. I already have a Topic on the Apple site with my 20 Stock Answers. That is where the link goes.

If you'd like I could post them here too...

My concern is that in previous projects, I could import jpegs into the browser and from there drop it on a timline and would notice no loss of quality when it was played on the canvas. Recently I have been seeing the jpeg image in a new project would lose sharpness while playing in the canvas window but becomes sharp in the canvas when the playhead is paused.

Thats probably because that particular picture was just different than the others or was prepared differently or was a different format. Bottom line is, you need a monitor No way around it.

Mike

The higher the detail on the jpeg, the softer it'll get on screen. As noted above - NTSC monitor or render everything and output then play it back.

The monitor is the better way to go.

Ian

Don't use JPEGs if you can avoid it. They are lossy compared to PICTS, PSD, TIFF or PNG. If it is a file from a digital camera, you can leave it as a JPEG, just bring it into Photoshop first and optimize the file for DV.