FCP 6 Field Dominance "None" Issue
by Brad Courtney
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Aug 4, 2008 at 2:55:35 pm
Well I've searched the Cow here and haven't found an answer to my problem so I guess I'll ask something that has probably been answered a hundred times and I just didn't see it.
I have 30P Photo-jpeg footage in a timeline. All of this footage has had field dominance set to none, and is most definitely progressive. When I set said timeline in FCP 6.0.4 to field dominance "none" I either see one field or the fields are shifted in the canvas and out of the Kona card (and in the canvas on my laptop too). Exporting also gives me the interlace aliasing on all my edges and looks just like the canvas. Hitting a match frame in on any shot and A/B-ing between viewer and canvas confirms that the footage is clean in the source viewer and crappy in the canvas. For sequence codecs I've used PJPEG (with the lovely gamma shifting), DVCPRO50 (including tweaking the internal options to progressive in the codec dialog box), and Uncompressed with all the same results.
So switching the timeline to field dominance "lower" gives me my crisp beautiful progressive edges again on my footage in the canvas and on export, however now if I animate anything the timeline itself (including SmoothCams) it of course renders it interlaced. So I guess my question is what gives? How do I make a fully progressive timeline in FCP 6 like I could in FCP 5?
Re: FCP 6 Field Dominance "None" Issue by Sean ONeil on Aug 4, 2008 at 6:02:35 pm
You're doing everything right. I just tried it right now and it worked fine. Maybe trash your preferences. Or maybe it doesn't work with P-JPEG.
You could also open up the clip in QT, hit Command-J, select the video track, select "Visual Settings" and check the box "Deinterlace" then "Save As" to a new file. I doubt this will solve anything but it's worth trying.
Re: FCP 6 Field Dominance "None" Issue by Sean ONeil on Aug 4, 2008 at 6:04:36 pm
Wait a minute. You set the actual clip to "None" as well as the timeline, right? You do this in the Browser window. Then you drag the clip into the sequence.
