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As far as I know, FCP has no subpixel filtering, so the texture or detail in an image falls on one scan line or another without any smoothing in between. This really isn’t the fault of FCP, but rather the fact that these stills have a lot more detail and resolution than can be properly displayed when reduced to that size. Typically the offense is that detail in the image tends to scintillate or that diagonal lines look aliased. Here again Graphic Converter saved the day, by stripping out the Photoshop color profile info and rewriting a clean JPEG file.įCP is frequently slammed for the quality of moves on high-res photos using the DVE functions of the motion tab. Viola – no gamma shift – and proper levels! I have also run into cases where Photoshop-generated JPEGs had issues on a Mac. In this example, I “washed” all the PNG files through Graphic Converter and turned them into uncompressed BMP files. I use Graphic Converter mainly for its batch conversion functions. It used to be bundled by Apple and in fact, the version I’m using under Snow Leopard was still the one I migrated over from a PowerBook G4! This app has been a graphics conversion staple that I’ve used for two decades. The solution for me was Lemke Soft’s Graphic Converter. Most likely the culprit was either an incorrect color profile or an incorrect “assumption” by QuickTime. In my case, this caused unacceptable gamma shifts in FCP7. Unfortunately, the color syncing system used by the Mac OS looks for various color profile flags to get the levels right, which also affects what happens to such files in QuickTime. This format is a lossless compressed format that stores images at high quality with a small file size. I started a big project at the launch of FCP7 and ran into all sorts of new level problems with customer-supplied PNG files. If you have it set to 4 minutes, then that means you can have a still or a freeze last up to 4 minutes long as a single clip on the timeline. You aren’t creating any more media by doing so. While we are looking at this tab, note the Still/Freeze Duration time. Like all other such settings, changes made to this setting only affect files imported after the change was made. Bring them in as “source” instead of 2.2 gamma and the level will be wrong. This gamma preference applies to imported QuickTime movies as well, if they were created with an RGB codec, like Animation. As such, I now set all systems I use to 2.2 gamma. “Source” and other options don’t seem to yield the best results. Ever since FCP7, I have found that the best setting to use is 2.2 (the native gamma of PCs). This lets you compensate for gamma differences in graphics created on other platforms. I’ll share a few in this post and hope you find them to be helpful.Ī couple of versions ago, FCP added a gamma settings preference (User Preferences / Editing). Download LSRefresh, launch it, select the application(s) that don't turn up in Remote Buddy's menu, wait until the update is finished and then restart Remote Buddy.During the years with Final Cut, I’ve accumulated a number of workflow steps to eliminate some of the “gotchas” and bottlenecks. If the Launch Services database of OS X is incomplete or outdated, so is Remote Buddy's dynamically created menu. Remote Buddy uses Launch Services to check for the availability of an application on your Mac.
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