• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Trouble with Quicktime Export and DVD Burn: Pixelated/Artifacted Areas and Interlace Issues

  Posted by Brad Kester on March 19, 2012 at 6:38 pm

  My video was shot on a Panasonic DVX. In Final Cut it shows these settings:
  Vid Rate: 29.97
  Frame Size: 720×480
  Compressor: DV/DVCPRO – NTSC
  Data Rate: 3.6 MB/sec
  Pixel Aspect: NTSC – CCIR 601
  Field Dominance: Lower (Even)

  When I export to Quicktime with the “Current Settings”, the video comes out stretched and has some artifacting (around right ear) and interlace issues (around the mouth). Looks like this:
  as_is_no_aspect_correction.jpg

  The only way I’ve been able to get the correct aspect ratio is to export to Quicktime using Custom Settings and changing Frame Size to a 4:3 ratio of 640×480. The rest of the settings are:
  Frame Size: 640×480
  Aspect Ration: NTSC (4:3)
  Pixel Aspect Ratio: NTSC – CCIR 601 / DV (720×480)
  Field Dominance: Lower (Even)
  Editing Timebase: 29.97
  Timecode Rate: Same As Editing Timebase
  Compressor: DV/DVCPRO – NTSC
  Quality: 100%

  But the artifacting and interlacing issues remain. It looks like this:
  4×3.jpg

  On all my past projects with the DVX, everything looks fine when I export to Quicktime. But I’ve heard that sometimes videos show up looking weird in Quicktime Player but are corrected when you burn to DVD. The DVD I made still has issues.

  How do I get rid of these pixelated areas? Why does my video come out looking stretched when I export iwth Current Settings? Am I downgrading the quality when I change the size settings? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

  BK

  Brad Elliott replied 14 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Brad Elliott

  March 19, 2012 at 7:53 pm

  Is your video supposed to be 16×9 or 4×3 letterboxed?
  Are the settings above for your sequence or the source clip?

  Click your sequence and then command+0(zero) to check if the anamorphic 16×9 box is checked. You should be able to export a 16×9 720×480 movie without any problems.

  I would always recommend editing in a sequence that matches your clip settings. Unless you have changed the preference FC should prompt you for this. If your source clip is supposed to be 16×9 confirm that anamorphic is checked in the anamorphic column. This could also be causing all of your problems.

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