720p slight flicker in sd

[Jeremy Garchow]

You are awesome. This helps tremendously. I am away from a way to run this through a monitor, but I think I know what you are talking about.

OK, the flicker you speak of, is it on the still frame of the snowboarder on the snow board (the second shot)?

Jeremy

[Rafael Amador]

Hi Dane,
I think you should have a look to your Luma levels. The picture and most of all the flash. This may be causing the flicker.

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..and always a big mess on top of the table.

[Dane Henry]

Jeremy –

It’s definitely most noticeable on the horizontal movement of the snowboarder. Even, on the head shot it seems to jitter, maybe I’m starting to look to hard?! I just want to make sure it’s as clean as it can be.

Rafael –

Your correct about the luma levals, as what I posted has not had its luma brought into legal territory. But it still does the same on the legal version of the edit. Sorry for the confusion, I wasn’t even thinking of that when I posted that particular piece.

-Dane H

[Rafael Amador]

Hi dane,
The Luma was just an idea. To get a flicker in a CRT monitor with those levels is not strange.

[Dane Henry] “maybe I’m starting to look to hard?”
I think so. I guess that if you take somebody that haven’t be working on your project, you play them the first 30 secs, and you ask them if they sow something strange, may be after watching the clip two or three times, somebody will point at this shot.

Mac OX 10.5.2-FC 6.02-QT 7.4.1
G5 2x2Gh 4GbRAM-BlackMagic Extreme
PMBP 17″Core2Duo 4GbRAM-AJA ioHD
JVC DTV-17″
SONY EX-1 . SONY PD170
..and always a big mess on top of the table.

[Jeremy Garchow]

Dane put a slight slight blur on the image (like .2 or something tiny) and that should clear up the fine lines. This is a common problem with stills in FCP.

You interlacing (or lack there of) all looks proper, the motion of the video in general looks proper, it just appears to be an artifact of the still images, perhaps from roto?

Jeremy