• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  HDV to MPEG2 strange problem with ‘stills’??

  Posted by Ben Ged low on March 24, 2008 at 10:36 pm

  HDV exported straight from original timeline with Compressor to MPEG2.

  Many moving stills (keyframed). Some (not all) are doing a strange thing. If I have them on v2 you can see through them to the clip on v1 – it’s as if you are looking through a very fine venetian blind to the track below (as if half the interlaced frame is gone).

  And the next still on the timeline is just fine. I can’t see I’ve done anything different to the stills. So far I’ve got about thirty errant stills in a film with maybe a 100 stills. All 72 dpi. All from the same source.

  I just did a test with two of the errant stills on a new timeline. One is fine now, the other has the venetian blind effect.??

  Could it be something in the Compressor settings going from HDV to MPEG2 vis-a-vis the Field Dominance? But I can’t reset the field dominance in the default Compressor settings: and I’ve mastered a dozen films with these default settings (HDV to MPEG2) without similar problems.

  All ears and holding my breath…

  Ben

  Ben Ged low replied 18 years, 1 month ago 1 Member · 1 Reply
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  Ben Ged low

  March 25, 2008 at 4:36 pm

  Solution came from Jeremy Garchow…

  I created a new HDV timeline. I set the Field Dominance to ‘None’. I brought the whole show onto the new timeline (with Field Dominance set at ‘None’).

  I exported out to an HDV Quicktime master.

  And I also exported the original timeline (clips and effects and all) out through Compressor to make an MPEG2 for DVD.

  In both cases the problems with the stills seem to have disappeared.

  Ben

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