Footage Looks Interlaced on Progressive Timeline
by Mayur Deshmukh
on
Jul 9, 2008 at 5:16:35 am
Hello,
I'm on a new project where we have changed FCP versions during the process from 5.1 to 6.04.
Footage was shot and imported as 29.97 SD DV and converted via CinemaTools [Remove Advanced Pull Down] to 23.98. And according to my boss everything looked great in FCP 5.1. Since the upgrade to FCP 6.0.4 Sequences with Progressive DVCPro50-NTSC settings seem to allow clips to revert to interlaced.
This upsets my boss very much. I'd be content to let my export sort it out, but I'm pretty green as an editor. Can anyone explain to me what's going on and how I can fix it?
My solution thus far has been to start each sequence with a slug from a clip I know is progressive, letting the sequence conform to the clip and working from there, but this has apparently solved no problem.
Re: Footage Looks Interlaced on Progressive Timeline by Mayur Deshmukh on Jul 9, 2008 at 2:11:31 pm
Hello Wojtek,
No speed adjustments, just the frame rate conversion via Remove Advanced Pulldown in CinemaTools.
The other thing is that I'm getting the "Clip does not match Sequnece settings, Change Sequence to match Clip Settings?" message even when I try starting a sequence which I know should be cool. I've been saying "Yes" to this question because I'm using clips I know are Progressive and assuming the discrepancy is with datarate or audio set-up.
Would you walk me through the basics of setting up a sequence that OUGHT to keep me Progressive?
Settings are:
720x480 NTSC DV [3:2], CCIR 601 NTSC, Anamorphic 16:9, Compressor = DVCPRO-50, Progressive, 16:9, frame rate = 23.98
Clips match the Sequence settings.
Again, project started in FCP 5.1 and everything was working great, since the upgrade to 6.0.4, things have been getting hairy.
Re: Footage Looks Interlaced on Progressive Timeline by Wojtek Jezowski on Jul 9, 2008 at 3:01:52 pm
... You can try the old "remove-one-property-at-a-time-and-see-if-it-changes-anything" technique. ;)
The interlace-like effect comes up when there's something wrong with the frame rate, speed or pixel aspect. The setting look fine though....
Have you tried converting the footage in Cinema Tools after the update to FCS2? I don't have much experience with Cinema Tools but maybe if you try again it might make a difference.
Re: Footage Looks Interlaced on Progressive Timeline by Don Greening on Jul 9, 2008 at 5:27:35 pm
DV NTSC footage usually defaults to interlaced. Go to the Browser, select one of your master clips, right or control click in the field order column. in the pop up menu change the field order to "none". This won't change the clip properties of anything in the sequence you're working on now, so either go through the sequence and change each clip using the same method or just start a new sequence.
Re: Footage Looks Interlaced on Progressive Timeline by Mayur Deshmukh on Jul 9, 2008 at 6:00:40 pm
Don and Wojtek,
Thank you for your advice. For the time being I'm Selecting All clips in Sequence and Control Clicking open their item Properties and changing field dominance in there ... and it's working! I think we might have to go back into CinemaTools though.
