Re: Field Dominance

Phil, as Walter said, DV is lower field dominance so leave your sequence set to this. The HDV material is upper so FCP applies the shift field filter. This is fine until you slo mo where the frame blending gets all confused. To solve this problem, copy the slo mo shots into another sequence which is HDV 50i and remove the shift field filter. The slo mos should now look smooth. Experiement with frame blending if they still look jerky. Then make quicktimes of each slo mo in HDV codec (same as sequence)and drop those quicktimes back into the DV sequence. Again the shift field filter will apply but it now happens after the smooth slo mo has been done.

It is a pain and a work around but for whatever reason, FCP gets field order wrong when trying to do a slo mo on footage with the shift field filter applied.