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Lines at top of capture
When I capture footage there are small black and white lines at the top of the video.
You can see them at the top of this image https://ianluckraft.co.uk/images/final-cut-pro-grab.jpg
Can anyone tell me how to adjust the settings so these aren’t present?
Thanks for any help.
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That’s not adjustable during capture don’t think. I’d just crop it out, or expand the picture a tiny bit to lose it from the full raster.
Jerry
Apple Certified Trainer, Producer, Writer, Director Editor, Gun for Hire and other things. I ski.
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Hi,
I experienced the same thing with footage of certain camera types – often with the Sony PD-150 / older models.
I think Jerry’s solution is the best way to get rid of it.
I don’t think either you will solve it by changing the settingsSascha
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Thanks very much for the replies.
Can I expand the picture in FCP? If so how can I can I do that?
If not will I have to do this in another program?
Thanks
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Jerry,
Are you a ‘certified trainer’?
What did you have to do to get that?
(don’t answer. I don’t want to know.)1) these lines are part of the video signal.
It’s DV, and the lines indicate aspect ratio.Since this is SD, the format is overscanned.
Meaning, no-one is ever going to see it on their TV.2)
Now your remark about scaling the video is ridicolous.
No-one scales his video to get rid of edged. If you must remove them:
(again, no need for TV), you either blank them with black (like DVD output that is viewed on computers), or crop.
Cropping is something always needed for SD to web, since that’s the only way to get proper framing.
(any decent shooter will know what the image looks, and how much of that ends up on TV, so he basis his framing on that.)Bouke
https://www.videotoolshed.com/
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Ouch…
Jerry’s response about scaling or cropping are the 2 ways to get rid of it, he didn’t say it was perfect, just the 2 ways to do it.
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My bad, i’ve overlooked the ‘crop’ option in his post.
Bouke
https://www.videotoolshed.com/
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The source is coming out of a dvd / mini dv player. In this case it was playing a dvd. This is connected to the mac through a aja kona cable.
The content will mainly be delivered through the web but there is scope to deliver some on dvds.
In terms of apperance I think the black lines are acceptable and don’t detract where as the black / white lines at the top are a distraction and make the video look of a poor quality.
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Hi Ian,
I can’t believe this thread got this far without explaining what you are seeing…VITC (Vertical Interval Timecode)
Read:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical_interval_timecode
Not a problem if you are going to tape. As someone stated above it’s not visual as it’s in overscan.
DON’T blow up your picture. Just crop out the top few lines of video.
Best,
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If the black bars on the side and bottom don’t “bother” you for web output, then just crop the footage to see black canvas behind…and you’ll have a nice black border around your entire video.
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Hi Joey,
Thanks for your reply and the link.
Can I crop this in final cut or will I need to do it in another program?
Thanks again
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