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Where’d my DV/DVCPRO 48k Option go??
Hey guys – long time reader blah blah…
So I’m working on someone’s macbook pro. My work Final Cut Pro machine has DV/DVCPRO – NTSC 48K as an option for the sequence, but this Macbook only has that same option in PAL.
The current setting is DV NTSC 48k. I think that my exports are looking super crappy for this reason (and I know it’s not just because I’m using the native FCP DVNTSC export, it always has looked crappy.) But my text is super blurry even when I export with animation without any pre-rendering done on the timeline.
Does anyone know where my DV/DVCPRO-NTSC 48k option went?!??
Thanks in advance!
Conor -
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DV, DV25, DVCPro and DVCam are all basically the same format-digital video at 25Mb/Sec. If your output looks bad in the DV codec format, possibly look for another problem somewhere within the settings on the computer. Make sure that it is set to render at high quality and so on. Since it’s someone else’s machine, it’s likely that something is set different than on the machine you are used to using.
tom -
Great – thanks for the responses.
As I looked through my sequence settings, I was surprised to see that it did say dv/dvcpro ntsc as my settings, even though the general settings of final cut only says DV. So – I suppose that is the answer there.
Of course the output looks bad – but I also noticed that there was some serious interlacing going on, so I turned off the fields, and changed it to progressive, and that took care of those problems. Those settings were in the sequence->settings menu as well, in case anyone else is reading this.
I was surprised that Final Cut “took it upon itself” to interlace, even though I would rather hand that responsibility off to DVDSP. Clearly, FCP does not handle interlacing well at all, considering my text was terrible. Just my two cents there.
Thanks again,
Conor.
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