Can’t see Drop out

[Shane Ross]

Are you seeing this dropout on the computer monitor, or attached NTSC/PAL Monitor? You cannot judge the quality of the image, or scrutinize if for dropouts on the computer monitor. If they happen on the External Monitor then it is an issue. If it happens on your computer then it is the usual lessening of quality that occurs so that you can see all the frames:

#2 Playback is blurry

Shane’s Stock Answer #2:

ONLY JUDGE THE QUALITY OF YOUR MATERIAL ON AN EXTERNAL NTSC MONITOR, OR AT LEAST A TV.

1. Disable overlays on the canvas
2. Make sure you’ve rendered everything (no green bars at the top of the timeline

https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=24787

DV footage requires large amounts of data and many computations. In order to maintain frame rate and be viewable at a normal size, only about one-fourth of the DV data is used in displaying the movie to the screen. However, the DV footage is still at full quality, and is best viewed thru a TV or NTSC monitor routed thru your camera or deck.

Don’t forget, the viewer is a viewer, it shows you what you have. The canvas is also a viewer AT THE RESOLUTION YOU SET.

Shane

Alokut Productions
http://www.lfhd.net

[Peter Wiggins]

If the dropout was on field 2 only, you will never see it on an LCD monitor running FCP.
Again another reason for following Shane’s advice

Peter

Free Motion Templates

https://www.peterwiggins.com

[Mervyn]

Yes, i am seeing on my external monitor. Thats what i usually do when i am watching my playback. So now that i clarify this, how can i get to the the drop out on that frame. I cannot use any other clip as i am doing soccer prog and there is only one take.
Pls advice
cheers
mervyn

[Martin Baker]

The trick is to set your canvas zoom to 100% or greater so you see both fields.

Martin
Digital Heaven, London UK
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