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Lines (low resolution)
I have a FCP project open with hi-def 720 24p footage. It looks great. When I import standard def footage, there’s lines around any kind of movement in the frame. When nothing is moving in the frame, it looks fine. Can anyone help?
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4 Replies
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I’m going to presume that you are trying to insert NTSC (29.97 interlaced) footage into a 720p/23.98 (progressive 24fps) timeline. FCP is having to do a frame rate conversion from 60 fields to 24 frames and upconvert from 720×486 to 1280×720. I suspect you are seeing artifacts from this process. I’m not sure how you are monitoring this, but essentially FCP will not do this well compared to dedicated (and expensive) external hardware.
Sincerely,
OliverOliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
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I think you just have to de-interlace your SD footage to put toguether with the HD progresive footage in a progresive tine-line.
Rafael -
[rafalaos] “de-interlace your SD footage”
This is still going to look awful. FCS does pretty substandard upscaling and you still have the issue that frames will be dropped to match the 24p timeline.
Your best shot at doing this in the software realm is to purchase Shake and use that to Deinterlace and scale the image. Second, use Cinema Tools to conform the rate from 30 to 24 (slowing down the motion). Third, drop the new, converted clips into the 720p/24 timeline.
Sincerely,
OliverOliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com -
Your right Oliver, FC is not the best tool to do that. If you got Shake you can do it all at once, with the CONVERT option. Even the 30 to 24 fps coversion.
But with the info provided by Atari Norris the only I can suggest him for sure is to de-interlace. For the re-sizeing and change of time-base there are other tools: HDinstant, Nattress Standard Conversion..
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