• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  panning becomes stuttery on panasonic footage?

  Posted by Tom Rowley on January 15, 2009 at 5:32 pm

  Hi,

  I feel silly troubling anyone for help on this, but I’m at my wits end, and am editing for a client.

  So I’ve shot footage on Panasonic HVX 201 (i think Americans call it 200), on video mode, in dvcprohd 1080i50. I bring it into fcp in it’s regular settings, and suddenly the motion (especially pans. tilts are okay) appear really jerky. I’ve tried it in applepro res, uncompressed 8 bit, but it’s still off. And when I export to flv, it gets a bit worse. In some ways I might be nitpicking but it’s a big enough client that I really don’t want to mess up in any way.

  https://www.hostelworldvideos.com/videos/tomrometest.html

  Though, in the clip above I added a smoothcam filter, and a tmts smart de-interlace, which in some mad way accentuated the problem occasionaly. I had thought it had something to do with the fields.

  Has anyone come up against a problem like this?

  Tom

  Tom Rowley replied 17 years, 4 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Shane Ross

  January 15, 2009 at 7:01 pm

  Hmmm…it is acting like progressive 1080p25 footage.

  Confirm your sequence settings. Command-0 (zero) will get you there.

  Shane

  

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  Tom Brooks

  January 15, 2009 at 10:47 pm

  Assuming your sequence is indeed 1080i50 I don’t see much wrong with your Final Cut workflow. The pans are really fast for a Web clip. The codec will have to work really hard to reproduce those pans. Are you seeing the problem on your edit monitor, or just in the final compressed result?
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  Tom Rowley

  January 16, 2009 at 1:27 am

  Actually have been trying switching the sequences to 108025p, and it’s looking a bit better. Thanks a million for the advice there. Still some dodgy pans but i guess I can just cut around them in future. As it happens, it’s usually the slower handheld ones rather than the fast ones that become staggered.

  Odd thing is when I’m watching clips back in the video preview any stutters aren’t noticeable, but once it’s down in the timeline it starts getting worse. Then once it’s exported it’s worse still. So I guess I must have shot in 25p as a happy accident, though I have a memory of 1080i50. Usually I’m pretty clear on these things but this shoot was hectic.

  Actually just checking if it is 25p, then it wouldn’t need de-interlacing would it?

  Thanks again for your help Shane and Tom

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