Hi all,

Trying to make QT movies out of Avid and I'm noting in the QT player after export that edges of my text and alpha graphics are, well googy.  They look sawtooth as in the image below.   When I then import that QT back into Avid, they edges are "wavy" in the second image.

Thoughts?

Thanks for considering!

Tim Scarpino

 Hi Tim,

That looks like an interlacing problem.  What is your goal with the exported files?  DVD?  Broadcast? Internet?  If we know where you're trying to go we can help get you there.

good luck,
Carl

That also looks like viewing an interlaced image on a progressive monitor. Could that be all this is? Have you tried deinterlacing the QT?

 I've just added a Terabyte Storage device to my system and would like to take projects that I MAY want to revisit in the future and archive them to the drive.   Basically if I have a number of clips, string them all together in a sequence, make an uncompressed QT and then store them.

If I want to bring the stuff back into Avid down the road, I was hoping to simply import the QT.

I'm trying to avoid the Avid "Same as Source" in case I want to use the QTs somewhere else.

Make sense?

Tim

Why not use the consolidate command on that sequence you create with the clips you want to keep?

or make a video-/audio downmix and save the mxf file?

otherwise: if you have your "right" field order ("upper field first" for PAL / "lower field first" for NTSC) for the export AND import, nothing should happen...

regards - moses

it's a reversed field order... top field first on uncompressed output.

Menno