Hi, all -
I'm attaching two screen grabs, which make up a "before" and "after" comparison to illustrate my problem.
As you can see, when I import a particular graphic (a PhotoShop image with transparent background), it looks great in my Canvas. The "Before" image shows what I see in the canvas when I place a JumpBack animation on V1 and my school district logo on V2, then wait for the preview of the non-rendered image. Looks fine.
But in "After," you can see that once I render the composited image, the PhotoShop logo looks pixilated and awful. If I add a slight drop shadow to it, it's a bit better... but, to my mind, there's no reason such a sharp graphic should look so ugly after rendering.
By the way, the graphic shows up at 100% of its original size. I'm not blowing it up or shrinking down a massive graphic here... what you see onscreen is not in any way manipulated to make it fit onto the screen... that's actual-size. It's 408 x 113 pixels, 72 dpi. Image mode is RGB color, it's one layer with its own transparent background.
I'd really appreciate any ideas you all might have about this. I tried to find out where I can set FCP to render at best quality (ever notice that when you open a FCP project from an earlier version of FCP, you get the option of setting the render quality, and are told that the default setting is something like "good" quality but there are higher-quality options? I wonder if that might be an issue here...) but I cannot find this setting.
Again, any input would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
M.