• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  HD to SD- adding SD clips- out to SD DVD

  Posted by Dave Kosor on December 13, 2007 at 2:15 am

  The only method I’m aware to pulldown from HD (60p), in FCP 6, is to copy and paste from an HD timeline to an SD timeline and render. And things look fine during playback. But if paused, you’ll notice a thin line where the matte meets the video. And unfortunately, this line carries through when I use Compressor 3.0.1 to encode it into a DVD, even with the highest bit rate. I can use the deinterlace filter, set to blur, to remove the line but then the whole picture has a fuzzy look.

  I just discovered that using compressor to encode the high quality mpeg2 gets rid of the lines. However, I’m using both HD and SD footage in my project so this technique won’t work here.

  Given my limitations to only these programs, and no options hardware-wise, is there a better technique to go from HD footage to an SD DVD – that incorporates both HD & SD?

  Workflow as follows:
  1.) DVCPRO HD720 60p Quicktime clips to FCP
  2.) Cut footage both HD and SD
  3.) Copy and paste HD clips into SD timeline
  4.) Add SD footage
  5.) Output mpeg2 for DVD SP

  The last step is where the lines come in at.

  ~reicko

  Dave Kosor replied 18 years, 5 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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