• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Jittery lines after rotate tool is applied

  Posted by Reuben Fink on July 15, 2008 at 5:08 am

  We shot a piece on the DVX100b using a red rock lens which means the footage came in upside down. So I’ve added a rotate plugin from FCP. Rotate 180 and filtering set to best quality. I’m viewing the clips through my sony deck on a standard NTSC TV. It looks bad. The finer edges are stair stepping and at some points there’s a bit of a flicker. Now when I uncheck the plugin it no longer looks this way. Quality looks good again. … but it’s upside down. Just to be sure I exported the version with plugin applied, to watch on my dvd player. I had the same results. Why is this happening and does anyone know a work around?

  OSX 10.4.8
  Equipment: G5 dual 2.0 gig 2.5 gig ram
  Aps: After Effects CS3, FCP Suite 2, Photoshop CS3

  Andrea Stewart replied 17 years, 10 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  David Bogie

  July 15, 2008 at 2:40 pm

  Try scaling to -100% instead of using the plugin.
  You may also need to move the image up one pixel, field shift.

  Search here, on Sony’s site, and Google the camera model. There should be many FCP users who are in the same situation.

  bogiesan

  This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”
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  Andrea Stewart

  July 16, 2008 at 10:33 pm

  Seems to me that if you flip the image 180 you now have reversed your fields which would create jaggies. Maybe I’m wrong, but try putting a swap fields filter on it. Unless of course you shot progressive…

  Andrea Stewart
  Producer/Editor/Director – Owner
  Germane Creative LLC

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