Deinterlace?

[Steve Braker]

Do you expect your viewers to be pausing your stuff on their FCP output on a CRT monitor?

Leave it alone and go learn about interlace. Search on that word in the manual, it’s pretty good with that sort of thing.

[Jimmy Stewart]

well, arent we saucy today. thanks. i will do that.

[Jimmy Stewart]

am i seeing lines because my monitors are not progressive scan?

[Steve Braker]

Sauciness is cumulative frustration with what seem like basic video things people should know about long before getting into something like FCP. I do apologise – like I said it’s a cumulative effect and shouldn’t be directed at you.

Here’s a more normal response to the question: In short, seeing interlace jitter on a paused frame with motion is completely normal. If your Canvase / Viewer are set to 100%, you will see jagged edges in the same places that jitter on the CRT. Also normal.

If you see jitter during playback then there’s an issue of some sort.

[Jimmy Stewart]

you do not need to know all the basics in order to edit. not everyone has taken classes, etc. if everyone knew the basics then this forum wouldnt exist. certain things stick in ones mind more than others. where i might construct a better edit (timing, etc) than one, that other person may know more about the mechanics inside the machine. differs for everyone.

i see lines just when i pause and its not for every frame. this also happens in dvd studio pro..so it may be my monitors. i will burn a dvd and test on a tv.

thanks for the thoughts

[John Pale]

[jimmy stewart] “you do not need to know all the basics in order to edit. not everyone has taken classes, etc. if everyone knew the basics then this forum wouldnt exist.”

Actually this is the pro forum. A certain degree of technical expertise is assumed. This is not the newbie forum.

The Cow has an FCP Basics forum for those that do not have a full grasp of the technical basics yet. (nothing wrong with that at all)

https://creativecalf.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_view_posts.cgi?forumid=8

[Jimmy Stewart]

if this is the pro section, im wondering why i havent heard many pro answers to my basic question. its also interesting that i have never had this problem with AVID?

for basic questions i will check out that site. i was unaware. thanks.

[Walter Biscardi]

[jimmy stewart] “if this is the pro section, im wondering why i havent heard many pro answers to my basic question. its also interesting that i have never had this problem with AVID?”

You did get a pro answer, that is to research interlacing, which you can easily search for in your FCP Help Menu. Your avid was probably set up to pause on a Full Frame while your FCP system is set up to pause on a single field. Unless you have a capture card, like our Kona, I don’t believe you can pause on a full frame. What you’re single is a single field on pause, this is quite normal.

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[Annaël Beauchemin]

[jimmy stewart] ” its also interesting that i have never had this problem with AVID?”

like Walter said… most Avids will only show you one field on pause. Which is half resolution… i’ve never quite understood why they do that. It makes supers placement, CC and other stuff pretty hard to do precisely.

[Terry Moore]

I, too have the interlace problem discussed here. However, I also see it in moving video, especially when the video is moving fast. I have never seen this before in my experience with tape-to-tape editing or with the other nonlinear systems I’ve worked with.

It doesn’t matter what the source footage is (DV, DVCPRO50, BetaCam), it all has the interlace problem, particularly when motion is involved.

Am I doing something wrong or is this just an anomaly of Quicktime video?

Video in my FCP projects is using the DVCPRO50 codec.