Why are PDFs blurry in in Final Cut.

Have you set it to 100%. How are you viewing? As I mentioned, the canvas window will not give you a true picture. Unless you set it to 100% and turn off aspect ratio adjustment, it throws away half the scan lines and then doubles the height.

Give us a grab of the image after you set the scale to 100%...

Have you set it to 100%. How are you viewing? As I mentioned, the canvas window will not give you a true picture. Unless you set it to 100% and turn off aspect ratio adjustment, it throws away half the scan lines and then doubles the height.

Give us a grab of the image after you set the scale to 100%...

Patrick

you don't have to put your whole screen...

Anyhow, what are your sequence settings? Include the size and compressor.

will you be doing any zooms? if not, make your artwork 100% the height of your sequence.

hal stephens1 wrote:

OK, we did output it a couple of times and it was still blurry. As for your first comment about height resolution, what do you suggest we do?

"It?" What do you mean? Which object did you output and to where from where?

Vertical resolution is the number of lines of horizontal pixels. In standard definition, that is 480. You are importing an image that is 2000 horizontal lines tall so it is being scaled to fit the video format of less than 500 lines. Three out of four pixels are being thrown away or smooshed when you zoom out (by using the scale parameter set at 20-30%) to fill the screen. At 100%, you will see the original pixels but the window is only 720x480 pixels so you will only see about 1/4 of the total image height, or about 1/16th of the total image.

bogiesan

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Another way to approach this would be to load the PDF into Preview and export a high resolution PNG file, Zoom/scroll that to get the effect you're looking for.

Patrick

Have you rendered the clips on the timeline?

Click on one of the source images in the browser and type Command + 9 to see the clip properties. Either take a screen shot of the Item Properties, and post that or report those properties here.

Now do the same with your sequence, and either post a screen shot of the sequence properties or report those properties here.

MtD

So I'm having to use one layer for the application, which is unreadable, and use photoshop to cut out each line and layer them over the first layer. I then zoom each question. Can you think of a better way?

Thanks.

Yes

Using Adobe Reader, copy the required text of each of the questions from the PDF, then paste into one of the text tools in FCP, resize the text and display over a black or colour background.

You're taking a frame that's four times the height resolution of Standard Def NTSC and sizing it down to fit. You're taking a huge hit there.

Also, I'm guessing you're watching it on your canvas? Not outputting it to video? In the canvas, you're only seeing half the fields, and if it's at less than 100% size, not even that.

I'm not sure what you're expecting to see, given those conditions.

Patrick

theres over 35 lines of text on your PDF your posted, the golden rule to get best practice for text is:

max of 5 lines per screen

max of 5 words per line

so just re-type the text you need to show in the one of FCP text tools !

to repeat my solution:

I would never use a whole page PDF as an original - there is to much information on it for the viewer to be able to read let alone understand

just use the type tool in Final Cut Pro of the few words you need to quote (a maximum of 25 words) - job done in seconds, can that be any more simple?

Would it help if he changed his sequence settings to be square pixels and progressive?

Would this be for DVD? Web? Broadcast?

Those specs are s-o-o-o-o 20th Century, Gary! Get with the New Way! Twenty to forty lines of 12 pixel text is not only normal, it seems to be acceptable. There are 480 lines, right?

Back in the olden days, we used 12 lines of text as the max for NTSC delivery, assuming an edge and a shadow could be applied. We went to 8- and 12-line type out of the Chyron for legal disclaimers but tey were deliberately illegible.

bogiesan

David Bogie Chq-1 wrote:

Those specs are s-o-o-o-o 20th Century, Gary! Get with the New Way! Twenty to forty lines of 12 pixel text is not only normal, it seems to be acceptable.

not acceptableor normal by any of my viewers or commissioners r broadcasters; they all want to read and understand on-screen text, not to be confused by it.

So 40 lines of text; 5 words per line; that will take longer than 60 seconds to read, your viewers have all that amount of time to read and properly understand that?

8- and 12-line type out of the Chyron for legal disclaimers but tey were deliberately illegible.

Illegible, exactly; used by those who have something to hide.