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Thank you Jeremy Garchow!!
Hi J.,
From the Pacific Northwest … a very huge thank you. Just read your article on buggy FCP 6.0.2. (After hours of scouring forums…)
I’m completing a 90 minute docu shot in HDV. It’s got a LOT of stills in it. At random (different each render) the stills would suddenly look as if half the interlace had disappeared; it was like looking through a venetian blind to the track below. I tried four or five ways to fix this. Each seemed to create just another version of the problem.
I suspected it was something to do with interlacing\the Field Dominance … somehow. But had not thought it through to the next step.
And there you stated it in your article. I’m not sure what you meant by setting the field dominance on each clip (I’m not sure how to do this, never done it before). But what I did was create a new timeline with the Field Dominance set at none; moved the whole HDV show to the new timeline. And bingo!!!
Was able to export to both a straight HDV Quicktime, AND export out through Compressor to an MPEG2. And no funky stills. I don’t see any difference between the Upper Level Field Dominance and the ‘None’ in the tests I’m done. Should I worry about this … in terms of the live-action HDV (now set to ‘none’)??
So with a single click I can now render out the entire show …
10,000 thank you’s ….
Ben
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Jeremy,
The 10,000 thank you’s can be redeemed at Starbucks, that’s why their stock has tumbled so much lately.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
A forum host of Creative COW’s Business & Marketing, and Indie Film & Documentary forums.
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You are very welcome. Glad I could help when I wasn’t even there…
With stills, you can’t set field order, only with video.
[Ben Ged Low] “I don’t see any difference between the Upper Level Field Dominance and the ‘None’ in the tests I’m done. Should I worry about this … in terms of the live-action HDV (now set to ‘none’)??”
What format is your footage? Specifically, what frame size/frame rate of HDV and how’d you capture it?
Jeremy
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[David Roth Weiss] “The 10,000 thank you’s can be redeemed at Starbucks”
mmmmmm, more coffee.
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Thus the reasoning in Apple allowing you to render to ProRes422 when working with HDV/XDCAM.
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Wayne Carey
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What do you mean, Wayne? How does that affect field order?
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Well… it doesn’t really. It just avoids it.
It seems that the Long-GOP nature of HDV will cause issues like this and rendering to ProRes422 will solve this.
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Wayne Carey
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Not in this particular case, it’s codec independent.
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Hi J.,
You wrote: “What format is your footage? Specifically, what frame size/frame rate of HDV and how’d you capture it?”
HDV in a Sony Z1U. Captured as HDV. 29.98 fps. 1080i. Nothing fancy. The stills were all jpgs at 72 dpi (found any other dpi slows down FCP) … sizes between 15 & 30 inches wide … which FCP seems to be able to handle.
I did try some ProRes exports .,.. the stills problem was even worse than with HDV.
Right now I’m a happy camper as Compressor grinds away on the other side of the room.
All the best,
Ben
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Really?
I hadn’t seen this anywhere else but with HDV. But that’s just been my experience.
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Wayne Carey
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Try it. Put a lower field first clip in a none sequence and see what you get, all other things being equal (frame size, frame rate, etc).
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