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Capture progressive – FCP reports as interlaced
Hi
I have just ingested some 16:9 progressive DV material from a Canon XL-2 with the DV PAL capture preset. Settings on the capture preset have anamorphic ticked, and then under advanced, Progressive is set as the field dominance.
When played on FCP, there are what looks like, interlaced artifacts, i.e. stepping. If I look at the format properties for the ingested material, it is marked as Lower rather than none. Even if I manually change this it makes no difference to the picture. However, if I apply a de-interlaced filter to the footage, the artifacts disappear.
So my questions are:
1. Am I doing anything wrong on ingest?
2. Is all DV footage when it comes off tape effectively interlaced and thus needs the de-interlace filter applied?
3. If the de-interlace filter is applied to progressive footage, will the resolution be affected?, my assumption here is no, as the XL-2 records true 25p.Declan Smith
https://www.madpanic.tv
FCS3 / Combustion / Canon XL2 -
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ok … maybe user error
Even though I had the clip open in the viewer, when I changed the flag for field dominance to none on the clip properties, the screen didn’t update the change, even if I double clicked the clip. I needed to load a different clip into the viewer first then go back to the one I changed in order for it to update.
However, if I select ‘show excessive luma’ in the viewer, then the interlaced artifacts return. Doing the same thing on the canvas doesn’t make a difference?
Still don’t understand why interlaced artifacts are there at all, considering this is 25P..
Declan Smith
https://www.madpanic.tv
FCS3 / Combustion / Canon XL2
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