Converted 5D footage flickers in FCP

[Shane Ross]

You did the wrong thing. Don’t convert to XDCAM…convert to ProRes.

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[Colin Mcquillan]

[Morten Marthinsen] “converted the footage to Apple XDcam EX 1080i60 (35MB/s)”

convert straight to prores – no reason for xdcam. If you are using FCP7 download the eos plugin from Canon and use the Log and Transfer function to capture the footage from the cards or wherever you stored the files from the cards. Within the L&T interface window you can select which flavour of ProRes you want the footage converted to.

Colin McQuillan
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[Morten Marthinsen]

Hey
Thanks for the reply.
I convert it to xdcam because Apple Prores are usually much larger in size and xdcam basically gives you the same quality but less size.
I have been working on a show for Animal planet the last year where we did exactly the same thing and it worked fine. It should work fine, there is no reason why it should flicker.. Any other suggestions?
I will try and log and transfer the footage since i do have that plugin..

Thanks 🙂

[David Roth weiss]

[Morten Marthinsen] “I convert it to xdcam because Apple Prores are usually much larger in size and xdcam basically gives you the same quality but less size.”

They are two completely different critters Morten. XDCam may appear to your naked eyeballs to be of similar quality, but you would not say that if compared the two codecs scientifically. ProRes is a superior “hi-performance” codec. Among other things, it retains vastly more color information, and holds up much better through successive generations than XDCam, which is really a highly compressed acquisition format.

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[Morten Marthinsen]

That is probably true, you seem to know much more than me on this, but it doesnt answer why the footage is flickering (stuttering) in FCP.
Do you have any idea why this happens?

Thanks

[David Roth weiss]

[Morten Marthinsen] “you seem to know much more than me on this, but it doesnt answer why the footage is flickering (stuttering) in FCP.
Do you have any idea why this happens?”

Sure! Sorry I didn’t see the original question and answer earlier. Your camera shoots progressive frames, yet you have transcoded the files to various interlaced formats.

You wrote: I bought the Canon 5D Mark II and filmed some stuff. Then converted the footage to Apple XDcam EX 1080i60 (35MB/s), 1980×1080, 29.97 fps and put it on a Apple Prores 422 HQ, Square Pixel Aspect Ratio, Field Dominance Upper, 29.97 fps sequence in FCP.

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[Morten Marthinsen]

Ok. So how should i go by fixing this problem? Obviously my footage cant be changed, so what settings should I convert it to so it will look better?

Thank you so much for your help

[Morten Marthinsen]

Ok. So how should i go by fixing this problem? Obviously my footage cant be changed, so what settings should I convert it to so it will look better?

[David Roth weiss]

You need to transcode the original fmo your 5D to ProRes with “none” selected as the field dominance.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles
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[Morten Marthinsen]

I did do this and it still looks bad. In the FCP sequence i change from upper (odd) or none in the field dominance and it looks bad either way.
I have tried it on 2 different macbook pro´s and both looks the same.