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ghosting from Sony V1E footage
Hi, I’m getting massive ghosting problems with HDV 50i footage exported from fcp 6.0.6. I’m importing through firewire basic setting and exporting as a .mov using h264. The ghosting problem is there in the original imported footage when viewed in quicktime and in the export when viewed in quicktime or fcp, but while editing the original in fcp ghosting does not occur. I’ve tried changing my shutterspeed, the firewire, the firewire setting in fcp, shooting progressive and exporting the edit at full size and nothing gets rid of the problem.
Thanks for any help, R.
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Could it be this camera has an onboard ‘motion blur’, or ‘frame blending’ setting? If it does, it should always be turned off, or you will get a ‘ghosting’ of your images.
Scott Sheriff
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SST Digital Media
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Hi Scott, no I’ve checked and I can’t see that I have either of those settings. What gets me is that the ghosting isn’t there while editing, only in the import and export .movs, which means it isn’t the camera that has the problem, but the way that the footage is interpreted.
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I have seen in camera frame blending cause weirdness before, so just wanted to eliminate that.
Can you post some footage and more particulars of your sequence and camera settings?Scott Sheriff
Director
SST Digital Media
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Hi attached to this message should be a grab. The left hand image is the export where ghosting is clearly visible, the right the same shot while editing in fcp, where the image is interpreted correctly. The film is a three minute fashion shoot cut down from about thirty minutes of original footage shot onto miniDV tape. I’m shooting HDV usually at a high shutterspeed because I like the look, normal light conditions, no frame blendling, no special settings switched on apart from steadyshot. No down convert when I import into fcp.
The footage is fine when reviewed on tape and while editing in fcp, just the imported .mov and the export have the ghosting problem. I shoot 50i which I deinterlace at export stage but clearly this is not an interlacing issue. I’m exporting using the h264 setting on quicktime converter to make a 520 by 348 film ready for upload to the web.
Thanks for any help, R.
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Roland,
I don’t think your screen grab post is working.Scott Sheriff
Director
SST Digital Media
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Hi Scott, OK, the embed code above should take you to the the grab. The right hand image is the export and the left hand image is the the same frame during the edit.
Cheers, R.
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Sorry other way around, left hand image is the export, right hand is the in the edit. I’ve now tried using the Pro res 422 hq setting as it’s supposed to be better for movement. No change. R.
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Roland,
I have been having the same problem, but on a much larger scale. I had almost two complete images. After going through frame by frame on both a de-interlaced and an interlaced version of my video I came to the conclusion that the problem was misinterpretation of the interlaced video where fast movement was present.
The solution that worked for me (after trying 9 other things that didn’t work 🙂 ) was to simply de-interlace in Final Cut (effects, video filters, video, de-interlace) BEFORE exporting or sending to Compressor instead of de-interlaceing as I exported.
Nate
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Nathan, what can I say. It works! Thanks so much for the advice. Others couldn’t actually notice the problem in moving footage but it’s been bugging me for weeks. Again, a huge help.
R.
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