Am I going nuts? I'm in the middle of editing a project in which I'm using a lot of still images. When I place the images into the timeline they look crystal clear. But as soon as I render, they become extremely pixelated. I tried exporting as Quicktime movie, MPEG2 using Quicktime Conversion, MPEG2 using Compressor. No difference. The images lose a huge amount of resolution. Any ideas? I've checked the render settings and everything is set to highest quality.
loss of resolution when rendering
- Thread starter Timh
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imgentertainment@mac
The Reverend
well when you render them they are processed using the codec the sequence is set to. So if you are in a dv sequence and you render your still images they will be subject to 5:1 DV compression. Anything you put in the sequence and then render is changed to what codec the sequence is set to. So if you don't want this to happen you do two things. One is work in an uncompressed 10 or 8 bit sequence or use compression markers where you have images or graphics or any other miterial that you do not want compressed. When I am getting tword the end of a project I do an online edit in whitch I cange the project to an uncompressed 10bit sequence and in there I put my Photos, Graphics, Tittles, do my Color Corection ect.. That way none of these things are effected/compressed when I render them out. But remeber working in an uncompressed enviorment takes allot of space and some system with horse power.
imgentertainment@mac
The Reverend
Well in traditional film editing you do two edits on a film, You do an offline and then you do an online. basicly that means that you edit the whole film in an offline codec, meaning you are editing material that is at a lower resoultion then the original footage. and then after you have the edit done. You do an online edit where you go back to using the high resoultion footage. So basicly this by doing an offline you can edit high resoultion footage on a system that is not so fast and dosn't have enough space to do an online, and then you can take your offline edit to a system that is loaded and do all your online work.