• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  field dominance 101

  Posted by J. Tad newberry on June 9, 2007 at 5:00 am

  actually, i think i need the class even below 101….

  anyway, i’m wanting to bring an animation from Lightwave into FCP, and am having a heck of a time getting the field order/dominance correct. my FCP timeline is all the default settings for Blackmagic NTSC – DV which has the field dominance as lower/even. in Lightwave, i’ve rendered a test animation each of three different ways: one with no field rendering, and one each of even first, and odd first. they all three look crappy (jumpy/jittery) in FCP. what am i doing wrong THIS time, Cletus?

  Rafael Amador replied 18 years, 11 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Bill Russell

  June 9, 2007 at 5:36 am

  Hmm, make sure your output is 720×480 (the size for DV) and not 720×486 (the size for uncompressed). The lines of of the fields must match up exactly. And I assume your DV project is 29.97 (and not 23.976)? Anyway, if all three versions jittery, sounds like perhaps a frame rate mis-match. Check that on your lightwave project.

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  Rafael Amador

  June 9, 2007 at 4:31 pm

  Whatever think that you export in DV will look crappy. Choose a better codec and if you go to edit in a “lower-first” time-line, export your animation “lower-first”.
  Rafael

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