• Blackmagic Design

  whose running this ship?

  Posted by Neil Ryan on August 29, 2006 at 3:26 am

  I continue to have an issue in Final Cut, using BlackMagic cards, where, if I put a source clip of one field dominance into a sequence of the other field dominance, someone (I assume FCP) automatically adds the Shift Fields filter.
  With my hardware configuration i.e. FCP with BlackMagic card, this filter is not necessary.

  First assumption is, BlackMagic hardware will handle the changing of field dominance? If so, I like that kind of ‘smarts’.
  Second assumption is, FCP sees the difference between a source’s dominance and a sequence’s dominance and adds the Shift Fields filter? if so, Apple needs to make it a user-switchable item, so we can determine who runs the ship.

  If I’m right in both assumptions, then the two (FCP & BlackMagic) are conflicting.

  Can someone(s) please shed some light on this?

  cheers.

  Kristian Lam replied 19 years, 12 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Rafael Amador

  August 29, 2006 at 4:51 am

  Hi Post Man,
  I agreed with you.
  In the FAQ of BM thereis an article (14 September 2005
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  Kristian Lam

  September 6, 2006 at 6:05 am

  Hi,

  When you’re playing a DV clip in a DV timeline, we handle the field issue on output.

  When you use an uncompressed PAL timeline and drop a DV clip into the timeline, Final Cut Pro is the one handling it. It adds a Field Shift filter to the clip as it sees a different field order between the DV clip and the timeline.

  I’ve managed to replicate this problem and it is most likely an Apple issue and we’ll notify them.

  regards

  Kristian Lam
  Blackmagic Design

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