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help with output from final cut pro 5
hi all,
i have a project that was shot on 35mm, brought into Final Cut from Digi-beta through Blackmagic SD card. before outputting the final to digi beta, i wanted to see what it looks like on a regular television. So i made a quicktime movie out of final cut and burned a dvd using toast. It looked horrible. There was interlacing and the colors were muddy. So i brought it into compressor and de-interlaced and brought the gamma down a bit. Burned another dvd. It looked alot better, the interlacing was gone, but it still didnt look as good as the source material. I used the uncompressed 4:2:2 setting in final cut, with lower field first. 720 X 480. Any ideas on what i can do to fix this?
thanks,
carey
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[carey williams] ” I used the uncompressed 4:2:2 setting in final cut, with lower field first. 720 X 480.”
You used that for what?
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i used that in my sequence settings in final cut
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Humm??? You captured using you BM card from D-Beta – which codec? D-Beta and the BM and Apple 8-bit and 10-bit codecs are all 720×486 pixels, not 720×480. How the heck did 720×480 come into play?
DRW
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And why didn’t you just plug a tv into your digi beta deck if you wanted to see how it looked on a regular TV?
You should be loading and editing with BM presets and either 8bit or 10bit codecs. 720×486. Then, if you want to burn a DVD just export to compressor and choose an appropriate preset. But you should really have DVD SP or iDVD handy to create the DVD. Not sure how Toast handles fields, etc.
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you don’t have the blackmagic installed in that same computer you’re editing with, do you?
anyway deinterlacing is probably wrong. the film transfer probably has a pulldown pattern and is supposed to be interlaced. if the fields are in the wrong order in your reference dvd then something is wrong with your sequence settings or the software you’re using to create the dvd.
in both dvd studio pro and compressor there is a preference for setting the fields order when importing movies (‘automatic’ sometimes doesn’t get it right). set it to lower.
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