how to fix motion artifacts in Avid QT by using FCP

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how to fix motion artifacts in Avid QT by using FCP

I have 3 Avid Files:

thye have motion artifacts on fast movement. Graphics looks ok - antialiasing good.

My question is how do i eliminate the motion artifacts and still retain the crisp graphics?

warm regards an thanks for all the assistance in advance!

stuart in Hong Kong

17" tibook 2 gig ram - 1.67 GHz Mac OS X (10.4.3)

Silver G4 DP 1 gig

Posted on Jan 10, 2006 2:14 AM

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Answer 1

Andy Mees

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Jan 10, 2006 2:56 AM in response to stuart rankin

hey Stu

how bad is it?
haven't tried it myself but if the artifacting isn't too bad you might try using something like the CHV Clone and Paint plugin to fix it ( http://www.chv-plugins.com/collclonepaint.html )

edit: another thought ... was the artifacting introduced by the Avid or is it from source ? just thinking it might be easier to redig to the Avid as uncompressed or maybe direct to FCP

... and welcome to the forum!

cheers
Andy

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Answer 2

Jan 10, 2006 8:20 AM in response to Andy Mees

Hi, Andy. Nice to see you on the web. You still in HK? 😉

Thanks for the welcome.

To answer your ?? - The Avid file was digitized at 1:1 uncompressed 8 bit PAL and then exported as avid meridien uncompressed. the file had no artifacts on digitize but did so after export. So the Avid did introduce the motion aritfacts. I think I will try redig to FCP. See what happens. Gotta book the FCPs is the only trouble.

Thanks for the plugins link. looks very interesting. Bookmarked already. Looking forward to FCP Extreme? 10k US is a bit of a dent in the wallet, though.

Regards, Stuart

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Answer 3

Jim Cookman

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Jan 10, 2006 8:56 AM in response to stuart rankin

It's a pain in the neck, but unless you can get the avid meridien codec into fcp (dunno if you can, think so) you're best coming out of avid animation codec and transcoding in fcp to what you're working with.

Foolproof but clunky.

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