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Mixed Fields Footage
Hello… I have multiple clips shot in HD, SD and animations created in After Effects. Some are progressive, some have upper fields first, some lower… How should I create my FCP comp to handle them all correctly? I have tried going to their properties and changing them to upper, lower within final cut, but cannot get them to loo right… I have flicering fields all over…
Please could someone step me through this problem… Many thanks
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What format is your timeline?
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Well, I’ve messed around with a few, but I settled on basic NTSC DV, with fields set to NONE
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OK… so I know what you wouldn’t do.. can you tell me what you would do?
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Is one of those formats a dominant format that most of your footage is in? Or is there an equal mix of HD, SD, different field patterns, and after effects movies?
Also, what kind of a project is it and what is your intended output? Is this going to broadcast or just getting burned on a DVD? This info would be helpful in helping you.
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Paul Escandon
Producer | Director | Editor
Apple Certified Trainer – Final Cut Pro
Oremus Productions
http://www.oremusproductions.com
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Adjunct Professor of Media
John Paul the Great Catholic University -
It’s pretty even spread NTSC DV footage and DVC PRO HD.
It’s my demo reel and intended output is a flash video file for my website AND a DVD for handout
Thanks!
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Well if that’s the case then I’d see no reason why setting up an NTSC DV timeline would be a problem whatsoever. You might want to try the setting you had with the fields set to none, and also give it a shot with a field setting turned on (say.. lower). I’d do a test DVD burn of both and see what looks better to you.
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Paul Escandon
Producer | Director | Editor
Apple Certified Trainer – Final Cut Pro
Oremus Productions
http://www.oremusproductions.com
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Adjunct Professor of Media
John Paul the Great Catholic University -
Yeah… that’s the problem.. the beautiful graphics I created in AE in HD format now look blocky in Final Cut’s Preview window. Is there a SD format that is lossless I should work in to avoid this artifacting.. maybe I what I was thinking was a fields issue is really a compression artifacting issue… any help?
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If time is of the essence I’d just deinterlace the problem clips.
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Are the blocky graphics fully rendered at best quality? Have you tried taking these graphics back into AE and rendering out a SD version?
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I would stop fighting it in FCP and take everything to compressor. I would convert everything to a common codec like SD Pro Res, DVCPro50 or 10-bit Uncompressed. The DV footage will not benefit from this but the animation and the HD footage will compress a lot better when you go to DVD.
Compressor 3 does a great job with reordering field.
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