• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Help with viewing QT export

  Posted by Chuck Czech on June 7, 2005 at 8:15 pm

  I’m working with web designer (long distance) who insists I’m doing something wrong with a video file I exported from FCP using Sorenson 3. Maybe I am — I’m looking for input…

  From his description of the problem, he’s seeing the interlace lines on a moving object when playing back a freeze frame and says that should never happen with Quicktime; he wants to see a blur. He’s viewing it on a PC Avid and says he’s never seen interlace on any other video. I think it’s a playback issue — you can set your player to view one field at a time or both interlaced; the latter will provide the blur. And in the end it won’t matter because he’s going to compress it down into a web clip and no one’s going to notice the interlace.

  But he’s kind of raising a stink, telling the client that FCP can’t handle the video data like his Avid. Am I missing something? Is there a way to export the file so full fields are always viewed? How can he on his Avid view the material without wrinkling his nose?

  The program was originally sent to me on 3/4″ tape (!) which I had dubbed to DVCam, and then captured on FCP and exported using Sorenson 3’s standard settings. I’m using FCP 4.5 on 17″ Powerbook/1.5 G.

  Chuck Czech replied 21 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  June 7, 2005 at 9:20 pm

  You can eliminate the “jitter” in the still-frame before you Export to QT convertor.

  Apply the De-Interlace filter to any freeze-frames in the project.

  Also, there are thousands of different setting combinations for the QT Export.
  Here are the ones I use:

  Video:
  Quality: Medium
  Comp: Sorenson-3
  10fps (or 15 fps if more action)
  30 Keyframe

  Size:
  240 x 180 (or 320 x 240 if larger image is wanted)

  Audio:
  IMA-4
  22.050 kHz
  16bit
  Mono
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  Chuck Czech

  June 8, 2005 at 8:44 pm

  Thanks for the suggestions. The more I thought about what this designer was asking for, the more I thought he didn’t know what he wanted. For some reason he wants the file at the best quality setting; I’ll supply him with an interlaced file and a de-interlaced file. That’ll give him the choice.

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