• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Downconverting options & quality

  Posted by David Mallin on November 9, 2005 at 9:09 pm

  I just got back some footage from a telecine session. The material was telecined to D5, then digitized 1080 23.976PsF using a Kona2 and the Apple Codec.
  I have a BlackMagic Decklink HD Dual-link card on FCP 4.5. FCP is listing the files as Blackmagic files, even though they are not.
  The footage plays back and looks great in a HD timeline. The Blackmagic card also does an excellent job of real-time downconversion to a SD output, which also looks great.
  However, if I try to drop the footage into a DV SD 23.98 timeline, the rendered images look terrible. They are horribly grainy and jagged. Is this just the DV compression, or is there something I can do to make them look better?

  Thanks
  David

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  David Mallin
  Cloudchaser Films LLC
  Santa Monica / San Francisco

  Aaron Neitz replied 20 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Aaron Neitz

  November 10, 2005 at 2:17 am

  Check your Render Quality and Field Dominance for the DV timeline. It’d look better, end of day, to do it in After Effects or Shake etc…. Final Cut doesn’t always get things looking their best.

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