720p slight flicker in sd

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Dane Henry] “Should I be interlacing my progressive video to a Lower(even) Field field dominance? “

No.

I bet the letterbox is hitting at a particular line on your monitor causing it to appear to flicker.

That happens on exactly one CRT monitor here, but not on the other three.

[Dane Henry]

Jeremy,
Thanks for the response,

What about the flicker on hoizontal movement?
I’m dropping a finished 720p movie into an 8 bit SD timeline.

I did a search on posts and got this:

FCP doesent do a good job of resizing. So, I take the 720p to compressor and output an 8 bit uncompressed letterboxed. Then bring it back into FCP to layoff to betaSP.

Any other recommendations?

Dane H

FCP 6.0.2
3ghz 8core MacPro
4gb Ram
Kona Lhe
Sony PVW 2800

[Jeremy Garchow]

What frame rate is your 720p footage?

[Dane Henry]

30fps, edited in a 29.97 timebase but with a Quicktime video setting of DvcPro HD 720p60.

Would I have this issue if the video was shot at 60p?

Should I/Can I make a new preset with kona card for 720p30?

Thanks,

Dane H

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Dane Henry] “Should I/Can I make a new preset with kona card for 720p30? “

You captured firewire with the 720p30 preset? Is that right?

[Dane Henry] “Would I have this issue if the video was shot at 60p? “

Nope, you’re fine. You’d have other issues, but we won’t get into that now.

As long as you drop into a 29.97 timeline with a field dominance of ‘none’ you should be good.

Compressor does work well, though, if you have the time.

I would recommend Compressor over letting FCP handle it.

Jeremy

[Dane Henry]

Jeremy,

It’s P2 footage shot at 30p. It was a series of long interviews, 30p for a longer record run time.

I must have something else set wrong, because it just doesn’t look as smooth as my interlaced footage on the monitor.

I just finished using compressor on one of the edits. The noticeable flicker on the top and bottom of the letterbox are gone but there is still a slight flicker on motion.

I’ll try a 30p setting with the Kona.

Thanks for your help,

Dane H

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Dane Henry] “I must have something else set wrong, because it just doesn’t look as smooth as my interlaced footage on the monitor. “

You realize you are looking at progressive material and there’s an inherent judder, correct?

[Dane Henry]

Is there no way to fix that?

If not, it’s too bad for the TV viewers, but great for me, I would be super glad to be finished with this project!

Thanks,

-Dane H

[Jeremy Garchow]

Dane it’s really hard if I can’t see what you are seeing. Is there ANY way you can post a second or two or the uncompressed SD material so I can look at it? i just want to be sure.

Jeremy

[Dane Henry]

Here’s a link:

https://www.deeprootsmedia.com/creativecow_sd_footage/Edit-CSIA_2_Test.mov

Thanks for your help,

-Dane H