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Q: Text on screen issue

I'm having a huge issue with FCPX. The desktop of a computer captured as ProResLT and looks terrific gets all distorted when imported into FCPX. No moving or transcoding has taken place. It's referencing the original file (that looks fine). I have included a brief video link so you can see what I'm experiencing. Any help would be appreciated. Surely I'm not the only one experiencing this:

 

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3dMmexvIcCFRDB5LTdCMXJ5OHM

Final Cut Pro X, OS X Yosemite (10.10.5)

Posted on May 24, 2016 8:43 AM

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  • by Tom Wolsky,

    Tom Wolsky Tom Wolsky May 24, 2016 8:51 AM in response to wilcry
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    May 24, 2016 8:51 AM in response to wilcry

    Can you show the specs for the media in the Info inspector in FCP set to extended?

  • by wilcry,

    wilcry wilcry May 24, 2016 8:55 AM in response to Tom Wolsky
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    May 24, 2016 8:55 AM in response to Tom Wolsky

    Tom,

    Sure, thanks for taking a look: Screen Shot 2016-05-24 at 11.54.50 AM.png

  • by Tom Wolsky,

    Tom Wolsky Tom Wolsky May 24, 2016 8:58 AM in response to wilcry
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    May 24, 2016 8:58 AM in response to wilcry

    I Think the problem is because it's interlaced. Really shouldn't have been captured like that. Try selecting show both fields in the viewer options.

  • by wilcry,

    wilcry wilcry May 24, 2016 9:02 AM in response to Tom Wolsky
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    May 24, 2016 9:02 AM in response to Tom Wolsky

    Then why does the original QT movie which is interlaced look just fine (I considered it but it makes no sense since it works fine in other apps)?

  • by Tom Wolsky,

    Tom Wolsky Tom Wolsky May 24, 2016 9:05 AM in response to wilcry
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    May 24, 2016 9:05 AM in response to wilcry

    Because you're looking at it in the QTX player which doesn't display interlacing. iMovie does the same by discarding a field. Maybe try it in the QT7 player.

  • by Luis Sequeira1,Solvedanswer

    Luis Sequeira1 Luis Sequeira1 May 24, 2016 9:26 AM in response to wilcry
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    May 24, 2016 9:26 AM in response to wilcry

    I agree with Tom that interlacing seems to be the problem.

     

    I recorded a 1920x1080 screen using Quicktime Player X's "New Screen Recording" command - I used this very discussion's page in Safari as the scene - and it shows perfectly well in FCP X. You can test this theory yourself by doing the same.

  • by wilcry,

    wilcry wilcry May 24, 2016 9:50 AM in response to Tom Wolsky
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    May 24, 2016 9:50 AM in response to Tom Wolsky

    Thanks Tom,

    QT7 pro displays it just fine too. Perhaps it ignores interlacing too. Screen Shot 2016-05-24 at 12.49.00 PM.png

  • by wilcry,

    wilcry wilcry May 24, 2016 9:56 AM in response to Luis Sequeira1
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    May 24, 2016 9:56 AM in response to Luis Sequeira1

    Thanks for the input Luis,

    Do you think I'll take serious a quality hit, if I take a ProResLT file captured at 118mb/s and capture it as H.264 captured at 15mb/s? Obviously, since the text looks better, it may not be an issue. It's just hard for me to think I can get better results from an H.264 vs ProRes (anything).

  • by Luis Sequeira1,

    Luis Sequeira1 Luis Sequeira1 May 24, 2016 10:06 AM in response to wilcry
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    May 24, 2016 10:06 AM in response to wilcry

    From my perspective, one cannot reduce this just to mb/s. It depends on other factors as well.

    A screen recording in QTX can actually get the data straight off the screen buffer, so it is may more like a "digital copy".

    Playing the screen video through another device and capturing that involves a lot more conversions, and is likely not as perfect, even if encoded in a more professional codec.

    Size does not necessarily mean quality - a vectorial pdf, for example, can be much smaller in bytes than a paper scanned version of the same document, but will have much better quality, and scale arbitrarily with perfection.

     

    In the end, I suppose it does not hurt to try - and I think the results will probably not disappoint, but I will let you be the judge of that :-)

  • by Tom Wolsky,

    Tom Wolsky Tom Wolsky May 24, 2016 10:10 AM in response to wilcry
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    May 24, 2016 10:10 AM in response to wilcry

    Interesting color striping in the text, which I assume isn't on the original of that page.

     

    How does it look in FCP if you show both fields? The same?

  • by wilcry,

    wilcry wilcry May 24, 2016 10:23 AM in response to Tom Wolsky
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    May 24, 2016 10:23 AM in response to Tom Wolsky

    Ahhhhhhhhhh HA!! Tom, thanks so much. I did just show both fields and the text cleared right up. As I had said before I couldn't understand how it looked "normal" in QT but not in FCPX, when they were the same files. I wasn't considering that QT was ignoring the interlaced video. Thanks so much for your help. This will give me an answer for my colleague, so he can finish his video (I think he moved it to iMovie so he could keep working), as well as, save me tons of troubleshooting in case I see this again. Cheers!

  • by Russ H,

    Russ H Russ H May 24, 2016 10:37 AM in response to wilcry
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    May 24, 2016 10:37 AM in response to wilcry

    Probably don't need any more voices in this discussion, but if your colleague intends to distribute this via the Web – or for computer display by other means, it probably shouldn't be exported in an interlaced format – even if the text now looks great. An important take-away would be to capture future videos with progressive settings.

     

    Russ