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  • pixels/ rendering/ bad image in Final cut

    Posted by Tat Shabur on June 1, 2010 at 12:16 pm

    Hi can someone help

    I shot a video on mini DV tapes using a Sony HDV camera. After I played it out with another camera ( not HDV) onto the TV and it looked fine, little dark. I transfered it onto Final Cut 6.06, not knowing that i had to change the settings. So it was all captured with Pal. It looked terrible, I read at few forums that i can change things in the final cut so i did the following:

    User preference -Apple Pro Res 422.
    Easy setup- HDV- 1080i60. ( do i have to also write a rate and format of the video, and if so what?)
    Audio/Video setting
    Device control- Sony HDV 1080i50 Firewire.
    Capture Presets- HDV
    Sequence preset- 1080i60.
    The image already looks better, but is above right, do i need to change other things?

    After i tried to play in color correction, just a little, and it looked ok, but once rendered it looks very pixelated and lines going through with movements. what can i do about this?

    Also do I have to change something the sequence setting?

    I hope someone knows something.

    Thank you

    Tat Shabur replied 16 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  • John Fishback

    June 1, 2010 at 4:10 pm

    It always helps to give complete information such as what codec you used, what frame rate, etc. Here’s a Cow tutorial by Chris Poisson that might help you out.

    John

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  • Tat Shabur

    June 2, 2010 at 10:34 am

    I know it sounds awful but i don’t know what codec it was, as for frame 25.

  • Tat Shabur

    June 3, 2010 at 8:46 pm

    Hi

    Ok
    I have captured the footage on Final Cut 6 wrongly, did not change any settings, therefor the video looks different from the original. Can I change anything in FCP, I don’t have the opportunity to recapture it.
    It was shot on Sony DVHD, mini dv tape.
    Please, can you advice me?

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