Some recurring pixel issues in FCP 5 and mixing formats question
by dorit grunberger
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Oct 9, 2008 at 6:30:37 pm
We're mixing 24p footage we shot with miniDV source material we inherited that most likely is regular video (and don't know what the format originally shot is).
If I understand correctly FCP 6 has no problem with that, but we seem to. Beyond rendering needs, I find the material we inherited to have really obvious interlacing lines. Is there anything I can do to minimize that? The sequence setting the project was edited in is 23.98 due to our footage being shot and captured with advanced pulldown. The other issue I'm having is in cross-dissolves between photos that have motion on them. The motion is pretty standard and I don't understand why sometimes the transitions just look bad (pixelation). Any gurus out there? FCP 5, G5 computer. Compressor settings are pretty standard, so perhaps different settings in compressor could facilitate better transitions? Less jagged looking, interlaced footage?
Thanks in advance
Re: Some recurring pixel issues in FCP 5 and mixing formats question by Jaap Verdenius on Oct 10, 2008 at 7:23:11 am
Dorit,
1. The interlace artefact: Already tried to deinterlace the inherited stuff (Effects>Video>Deinterlace)?
2. The photo dissolves: Is your timeline video playback setting set to dynamic? Then set it to full. Is there a green/orange line? Render it. If still not good, try the workaround: put one photo one track above the other, create an overlap and keyframe its opacity.
Re: Some recurring pixel issues in FCP 5 and mixing formats question by dorit grunberger on Oct 14, 2008 at 7:32:44 pm
Hi Jaap
I didn't do anything about the interlace artifact yet but the results I was relaying in my 1st email are visible after compression with compressor and burning a DVD project through Toast. In other words, this is probably what the client will be seeing as the end product, so it is unacceptable. I will try the work-around of putting the problematic transitions on separate tracks and using the opacity/transparency trick.
Can you tell me more about what deinterlacing the inherited stuff will do?
Since FCP 6 is supposed to handle mixing of formats, would I still need to do deinterlacing using FCP 6?
