AVID MXF Export JAGGED EDGES

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bradvr4

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I'll try to be concise, and let the geniouses that be work on a solution.

Footage: HVX-200 720p 24pn MXF footage
Edit: Avid Xpress Pro HD, 720p 23.976 project
Input: Native MXF Files
Output: Quicktime Movie, No Compression, Full Rez, No Resize, etc etc
Result: Jagged Edges

Facts:

1) When I export to any codec (ok I haven't tried every last one - but the major ones), the Avid introduces jagged edges to my footage - both raw clips and color corrected / effect modified footage.

2) When I create a QT reference file to my MXF footage, everything is fine - nice and smooth.

3) When I import the QT reference file into After Effects, and set my render output (with or without cc or effects) to the EXACT same codecs I tried in #1 in Avid, I get nice crips, non-jagged footage.

WHAT GIVES?? There has to be a way for AVID to export this, otherwise this program is ludacris. I refuse to run everything through after effects.

I am hoping that someone knows the secret full-rez switch in Avid that I missing.

Thanks in advance!

-Brad the Puzzled

(SMALL CROPS OF FULL REZ FOOTAGE)

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Brad, you'd be better of posting this on the Avid forum. They will ask you to include more specifics. What version of Avid, what version of Quicktime.
 
Don't trust your computer...

Don't trust your computer...

The after effects result kind of throws off some of my thinking behind the problem. That's certainly a weird one you got on your hands. Having to take it all through AE is ridiculous though and I can't imagine that is you only solution. Anyway, just one question for you, is it only looking like that as a Quicktime Movie file displayed on your computer monitor? Does it look like that if you output/playback from the timeline to a broadcast monitor? Or hell even a television set?

cheers.
 
Never had that issue. I've had the problem that Avid appears to brighten the footage unless I do ucompressed or quicktime reference but I've never lost resolution or had things look jaggie.
 
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