• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Freeze frame artifacts

  Posted by Leonard Frankford on February 28, 2012 at 5:40 pm

  I am making freeze frames for a project and when I drop the frame into the sequence, render and then playback, there is a blocky artifact on playback. When you pause the playhead it looks OK, but as soon as I play the clip I see blockiness and extra chroma on the highlights. I’ve even tried exporting where the playhead lands as a still image/png and bringing it back in, but I get the same results. Has anyone seen this before? Any ideas? Thanks.

  Leonard

  Leonard F.

  Leonard Frankford replied 14 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 4 Replies
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  Stephen Smith

  February 28, 2012 at 9:05 pm

  Try de-interlacing the still grab and see if that works.

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  Leonard Frankford

  February 29, 2012 at 1:33 pm

  How do I deinterlace? I don’t see it under any of the video filters.

  Leonard

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  Leonard Frankford

  February 29, 2012 at 1:54 pm

  I found the smart de-interlace. It didn’t help.

  Leonard F.
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  Leonard Frankford

  February 29, 2012 at 2:58 pm

  The de-interlace didn’t help but it turns out the problem was that FCP was using a Sorenson 3 compressor for the sequence (these were strange .mvp video files to begin with). When I switched over to the DV compressor and rendered, the stills were fine–didn’t even need de-interlacing. Thanks.

  Leonard

  Leonard F.

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