• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Bad interlacing when burning to DVD

  Posted by Cisco Mccarthy on June 16, 2009 at 6:24 pm

  So here’s the scoop,

  FCP v. 6.0.5
  OSX 10.5.7

  I am capturing footage off a DVCPRO deck with a Blackmagic PCI extreme (SD) card. I have animation clips from Motion and exported Quicktime clips all in the same timeline with captured clips off the DVCPRO tapes. My sequence setting is set to H.264 for compressor. I export a quicktime movie and keep the settings to current settings.

  In iDVD I use “One Step DVD from Movie”. When I watch the movie on a standard TV set the DVCPRO footage has really bad interlacing when there is fast motion. I have used the “de-interlace” filter on the DVCPRO clips and that seemed to work, except if I add a “flashframe” transition between clips the interlacing comes back.

  Is this the fix? Using a de-interlace filter? Or is there a better compressor to use in my sequence settings? Better way to export for DVD?

  Thanks for helping out.

  Cisco

  Michael Sacci replied 16 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Michael Sacci

  June 16, 2009 at 7:50 pm

  [Cisco McCarthy] “My sequence setting is set to H.264 for compressor” This is not a codec you should be using, anything that needs to be rendered will be rendered to that. You should be using the codec you captured the tapes with.

  Your problem is somewhere you are swapping the field order. Which is why de-interlacing helps to fix the problem. But once again, if the end result is a DVD which plays back interlaced when you de-interlace you are reducing the quality of the video, it is blending and throwing out one of the fields.

  If you are capturing standard DV footage from the deck, then you should be using the DV easy setup in FCP.

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