• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Workflow for mixing HDV and P2 footage

  Posted by Keith Roberts on April 5, 2008 at 5:01 am

  I have been given a project with HDV footage (1440×1080, 29.97, HDV 1080i60) and P2 footage (960×720, 23.98, DVCPRO HD 720p60). All footage has been digitized/imported and some rough cuts have been made.

  The sequence settings of the rough cuts are:
  Frame Size: HD(1440×1080 16:9)
  Field Dominance: Upper
  Editing Timebase: 29.97
  Compressor: HDV 1080i60

  Everything plays back fine in the canvas window, but a little janky on my external NTSC monitor. I can see the frame rate issue in the P2 23.98 footage, and the HDV footage looks low res with lots of interlacing looking stuff going on (morie).

  I tried some render tests and conforming HDV with no improvement. I’ve done an HDV project in the past and everything looked fine on the external NTSC.

  I am running FCP 6.02 running on a dual 2.0 G5 with, with 2.5 Gigs of RAM, a DSR-11 and a DeckLink Extreme SD card, media playing off of a Rocstor firewire 800 drive.

  Questions:
  What is the best workflow I should follow now that everything is already injested or do I need to redig with different settings?
  Do I need an HD card to do the downconversion for things to look good on the external monitor?
  Is there a sequence setting that will let me work with these two formats and have it look good on my external monitor (and eventually to tape for mastering)?
  Do I need to do a frame rate conversion on one of the sources to match the other?

  Any help would be appreciated.

  Thanks,
  Keith

  Keith Roberts replied 18 years, 1 month ago 4 Members · 4 Replies
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  David Roth weiss

  April 5, 2008 at 7:53 am

  Keith,

  I hate to be so negative, but its 12:50am now, and reading your post is giving me very serious pain in my brain. The solution to the mistakes made by those ahead of you is not really “a workflow,” the correct terminology is probably to call it a vast set of workarounds. I wish you the very best of luck.

  David

  David Roth Weiss
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  Clive Van der heever

  April 5, 2008 at 9:30 am

  go and set the Field Dominance to “none” that should cure the jumpiness of the timeline.
  You never see this clearly on LCD only a good bit of glass shows you everything, hope that works.
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  Cedric Robertson

  April 5, 2008 at 8:36 pm

  Try this…

  Open a new sequence as a Apple Pro Res 422 HQ.

  Drop a 720p60 clip into the sequence and when it asks if it should change the seq to clip settings say yes. the drop in the other clips and see if this goes away.

  Let us know the result
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  Keith Roberts

  April 6, 2008 at 3:12 am

  Thanks for the responses. Everything looks great now. I tried many different settings and wasn’t very good about trying one thing at a time, so I’m not sure what did it, but in the end, I set the sequence to match the HDV footage (which making it prores and dropping in an HDV clip accomplished. And I could set the field dominance to upper or none and both settings look fine on both formats of footage).

  And my video playback settings are Blackmagic HDTV 1080i 29.97 – 8 Bit (1920 x 1080).

  The DVCPRO footage plays in real-time for editing … I’ll just render before output.

  Thanks again,
  Keith

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