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Changing Field Dominance
I have a freelance producer that took a project for my company back to his home country (Buenos Aires) to edit there. He is now telling me that 13 of the clips we captured for him are in Upper (odd) field dominance, while the rest are in lower (even).
There is a section in the format section of item properties that shows the field dominace of the clip and if you right or control clik on it, it will give you the choices to change it.
My question is will doing this actual do anything and change the clips field dominance or do we ne to recapture those clips and send them to him?
I tried it and did not see a differenc, but I didn;t try it on the footage he said was captured wrong ( I don’t have that it’s in Buenos Aires.
Thanks
Steve Cohen
Editor
O2 Media Inc. -
1 Reply
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Hi Steve,
The first think to do is to see if FC is interpreting properly the “field-order”. FC supose that if your clip is DV must to be always “lower-first” but some times isn’t it.
So the way is to play the clips with FC and watch it in a interlaced monitor.
You can check the field-order in the brownser. When you are sure that the order is set properly in the brownser (or in the clip settings) then you can drag the clips to the time-line. If the clip got a different field order than the time-line, FC will set a “Shift-fields” filter in the clip and the problem will be solved like that.
You must be carelul when working with some video-cards (Blackmagic for example) because the card take care of this difference in the field order and make this “Shift fields” by it self. In this case you must uncheck the “Shift-fields” filter set by FC. Because if you shift the order twice you are like in the beginning, with the order wrong.
Cheers,
rafael
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