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Shift Fields filter
I’ve been editing a short film shot on an HDV in 1080i60. I’ve recently noticed that all the footage brought down into the sequence automatically has a Shift Fields filter with a Shift Direction of +1 added to it. Why did this happen? Is it necessary or can these filters be removed?
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Hi Marc
already addressed this on the Apple Discussions list …
FCP will automatically add the Shift Fields filter if it believes you have edited source footage into a sequnece where the field dominance settings of the source clip and the sequence settings are mismatched.
If your source clips are HDV then they are upper field first. What are your sequence settings? If it is DV for example, which is usually a lower field codec, then FCP will add the Shift Fields filter … and you would NOT want to remove it.
If however you are editing in a native HDV sequnece then you do not want a shift fields filter on these clips, so removing it would be the right thing to do
When you open an FCP5 project into FCP6 for the first time, FCP can sometimes mistakenly think you need to add a Shift Fields filter to your clips, and gives you the option to do so … answering “No” to that dialog is usually the right response
hope it helps
Andy -
Thanks for the response. No one had responded as of this morning when I last checked on the Apple Discussion site so I figured someone here. Thanks for posting at both places. It was coming down to the wire.
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is there a way to turn that off?
I do not want FCP doing that for me.
That would explain some field order issues I’ve had that I didn’t have with 5x
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no way to turn it off.
that said, with FCP 5.x, 6.x or X.x, if you are working with interlaced footage and sequences then you really ought to be monitoring on an interlaced display NOT on your computer monitor… an external reference monitor has always been the rule, though not surprisingly folks often choose to forget about that if its not going to happen without additional cost (ie working with HD then you need to buy an HD IO card, Matrox MXO or similar) -
[Andy Mees] “if you are working with interlaced footage and sequences then you really ought to be monitoring on an interlaced display NOT on your computer monitor..”
I have no sympathy for “editors” that don’t monitor on an external monitor then run into problems as a result.
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