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A.J. Briones · July 28th, 2005, 06:45 PM

Hi all. I'm doing photo montages using FCP, and cleaning the images in Photoshop. Sometimes, no matter what I do in Photoshop (and I'm pretty good at Photoshop, BTW), pictures look really bad with motion. Jaggies, specially in motion shots. It looks good in the viewer, but when I export it it looks awful! I'm using Compressor to export in Mpeg2 (m2v) with the "60 minute high quality widescreen" setting.

Any advice? Tips? Best Practices?

Thanks much!

Barry Gribble · July 28th, 2005, 07:20 PM

A.J.,

Welcome to the board.

I get my worst results in adding motion to images when there are horizontal lines like window shades, etc. To knock it down, though, I take out the blur brush in photoshop and put it on maybe 15% and blur those areas out a bit. When you look at the still you don't like it so much, but when you are moving it in video you really can't tell that it's blurred.

Horizontal lines are the worst, but I do it for others too. Play around with it and see if it helps. Good luck.

John Stromme · July 29th, 2005, 02:56 PM

I would also try using a guassian blur filter @ about .1 intensity, and/or a de-interlace filter. That usually helps me in these situations.

But the blur in photoshop might be your best bet.

hope that helps

Martin Mayer · July 29th, 2005, 03:27 PM

I always add FCP's Gaussian Blur filter with a radius of 0.25 to highish resolution (around 2K x 1.5K pixels) stills on the timeline. This deals well with suppressing the line twitter in moving/zooming/rotating stills.

A.J. Briones · August 1st, 2005, 09:19 AM

thanks for the tips guys! the horizontal lines are really what's been at the root of the problem... i think i have a handle on it now, thanks to y'all.

July 28th, 2005, 06:45 PM	#1
A.J. Briones Major Player Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: San Diego, CA Posts: 275	photos perfect for montages Hi all. I'm doing photo montages using FCP, and cleaning the images in Photoshop. Sometimes, no matter what I do in Photoshop (and I'm pretty good at Photoshop, BTW), pictures look really bad with motion. Jaggies, specially in motion shots. It looks good in the viewer, but when I export it it looks awful! I'm using Compressor to export in Mpeg2 (m2v) with the "60 minute high quality widescreen" setting. Any advice? Tips? Best Practices? Thanks much!

July 28th, 2005, 07:20 PM	#2
Barry Gribble Major Player Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Los Angeles, CA Posts: 817	A.J., Welcome to the board. I get my worst results in adding motion to images when there are horizontal lines like window shades, etc. To knock it down, though, I take out the blur brush in photoshop and put it on maybe 15% and blur those areas out a bit. When you look at the still you don't like it so much, but when you are moving it in video you really can't tell that it's blurred. Horizontal lines are the worst, but I do it for others too. Play around with it and see if it helps. Good luck. __________________ Barry Gribble Integral Arts, IMDB

July 29th, 2005, 02:56 PM	#3
John Stromme New Boot Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 15	I would also try using a guassian blur filter @ about .1 intensity, and/or a de-interlace filter. That usually helps me in these situations. But the blur in photoshop might be your best bet. hope that helps

July 29th, 2005, 03:27 PM	#4
Martin Mayer Major Player Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Oxfordshire, UK Posts: 416	I always add FCP's Gaussian Blur filter with a radius of 0.25 to highish resolution (around 2K x 1.5K pixels) stills on the timeline. This deals well with suppressing the line twitter in moving/zooming/rotating stills.

August 1st, 2005, 09:19 AM	#5
A.J. Briones Major Player Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: San Diego, CA Posts: 275	thanks for the tips guys! the horizontal lines are really what's been at the root of the problem... i think i have a handle on it now, thanks to y'all.