Canon 5d MkII field dominance

[Peter Wiggins]

Yes it shoots progressive. You really want to convert the files to ProRes or similar first though as you will have to do a lot of rendering otherwise.

Peter

[Steve Martin]

Yes I converted to ProRes, but it’s the field dominance thing that’s got me scratching my head?

[Peter Wiggins]

If you are editing in 1080p then it should be set to none. For interlaced then it is upper/lower depending on your standard (I’m in the UK so I don’t know about the US)

Peter

[Tom Wolsky]

What settings are you using in FCP when you bring in this material? How exactly are you getting it into FCP?

All the best,

Tom

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[Steve Martin]

My sequence settings look like this

I conformed first with Cinema Tools and imported to the browser from HD.
I captured from camera using Bridge CS4
Thanks!

[Tom Wolsky]

What are your capture presets? That may effect how the clips are interpreted if they are imported. Also Bridge might be setting field dominance. You can change it to none in the browser, but as the material is progressive it’s not going to do anything to the media because it doesn’t have any fields. As long as the sequence is None it shouldn’t be a problem for anything that’s rendered.

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”

[Steve Martin]

Thanks,

Interesting to note that the aspect ratio defaults back to HDV 1080i after I change it to Custom 16:9

[Rafael Amador]

But you haven’t used this preset to capture nothing, don’t you?
This is just a Capture Template with a new name. It have no “frames per seconds” set.
Nothing that you can use.I haven’t found in FC any preset to capture p30.

As long as I know there is nothing to capture from the Canon. The signal out of the HDMI is not standard.
You copy H264 from the camera CF to your HD.
Nothing to mess around with field order: Always Progressive.
rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com

[Daniel Dunn]

I transcode it to ProRes LT in MPEG Streamclip, and then either let FCP automatically set my sequence settings when I drop in the first clip, or set the sequence settings yourself. One thing to remember, it shoots a true 30 fps as opposed to 29.97.
It works GREAT as ProRes (any flavor)

Daniel
http://www.ddunnproductions.com

[Gary Adcock]

[steve martin] “My sequence settings look like this “

Yo dude..

While the Cannon actually does shoot true P as H.264 video (like RED and Phantom)

Please note in your picture your seq settings clearly states that the format is 1920×1080 (HDTV 1080i 16×9)

While the h.264 file can play as true progressive on a computer the default transport of 1080 video as a broadcast signal is as interlaced or as a progressive segmented frame. see Psf.

gary adcock
Studio37
HD & Film Consultation
Post and Production Workflows for the Digitally Inclined
Chicago, IL

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