• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Auto Reading Interlaced settings wrong

  Posted by Daniel Spagnoli on September 24, 2009 at 8:23 pm

  Does FCP guess interlace settings by size/pixel aspect?

  as a test I exported 2 high motion clips D1 pixel 720×486 from After effects one as progressive and the other interlaced (lower field dominance).

  I put them into FCP and FCP says they both have lower field dominance.

  I put them both into a progressive sequence (leaving them both at lower fields, same resolution and pixel aspect) and rendered it out. both looked like your typical interlaced…not bad but not good.

  i changed the one that was progressive to no fields settings in FCP and it looked like the original when i rendered it out again.

  Basically my question is how does FCP “guess” your footage, and are there any settings to make it guess “non-interlaced” before guessing interlaced (i deal mostly with progressive After Effects exports d1 pixel)? I know how to eyeball interlaced, but its annoying having to change every clip to No Fields after import (and i like efficacy)

  John Fishback replied 16 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  John Fishback

  September 27, 2009 at 7:42 pm

  FCP’s file parameter analysis is often wrong. Check this out https://mediainfo.massanti.com/

  John

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