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Bizarre glitching in FCP
Hi! I’m having some craaazy glitches in Final Cut Pro. We shot on 16mm and transferred to DVCPro NTSC. The source material has no glitching at all. When we put it on the timeline, the preview looks/plays fine. Then when we RENDER it has glitches like this during periods of motion:
~1 sec clip: https://prettypennyproductions.com/confidential/glitch.mov
Isolated frame: https://prettypennyproductions.com/confidential/glitch.png
The glitches are not just in the timeline, they are also in exported files. I’m assuming it’s some kind of setting in FCP but I can’t for the life of me figure out what it might be. I’ve checked the timeline settings vs. the source footage settings and everything seems to be matching up. Is there something I’m missing? I feel like a total n00b because it seems like it should be very simple to fix but I just can’t find any settings anywhere that will affect it!
Thanks in advance for your advice!
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3 Replies
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Aaron,
It appears that somewhere in your process your fields became reversed. YOu need to find out if that the lab, or if you did it while digitizing.
DRW
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I agree with David… I’ve done this a few times in the past and it is a field reversal issue. Check your timeline and check your properties of your clips, one of them is reversed.
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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions -
Hi!
Checked the fields in timeline and in the clips. The source footage looks fine and dandy, even in FCP. It’s only in the timeline that we’re getting this glitching, which seems regular (2 bad frames followed by 3 good ones). Both the timeline and the footage are set to dvcpro ntsc, 29.97. lower field dominance. We even tried throwing it into iMovie and it looks fine there. Obviously there’s some timeline or system setting in FCP that’s blundering this, but I can’t find it!
Officially pulling out hair! Thanks for any further advice!
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