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Different Footages
Hello. I am creating a Recruit DVD for a high school student and he has sent me footage from different cameras, DVD’s etc. I have the project finished but after I compress it (W/COMPRESSOR), it only certain clips come out smooth. The only footage that comes out clean is the DVD’s(.vob files) that I ripped and placed in FCP, which is (640×480 Field Dom NONE, 29.97. Whats causing me problems is the footage sent on a SD card from a sony camera. It says in FCP that its (.mp4, 29.97fps, 720×480, H.264 compressor, & Field Dom is Lower Even). MY timeline settings are 720×480 NTSC DV upper odd, and Ive tried lower but it looks worse and I tried bottom first and top first in Compressor and they are all looking terrible except for the DVD files that were ripped from DVD. HELP please
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I may be wrong (corrections welcome), but you may want to first transcode the SD card footage to DV NTSC in Compressor (I’m not sure what this footage should be transcoded to, but DV NTSC is a good format) – mp4/h.264 footage doesn’t run well native in FCP. If you first transcode, then edit, then export the video in DV NTSC and then do your DVD files in Compressor, you should be fine. I generally try to use all one format for editing unless I’m mixing HD and SD footage, but I know FCP will still handle them.
Jonathan Ziegler
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You most likely have field order issues. The Sony is probably HD interlaced which is upper first.
You also ripped the DVDs incorrectly, you should have set them to the original pixel of 720×480, this is mostly likely a lower first interlacing.
But all this is done BEFORE you start the edit. To fix it now is to mask the issue.
Try in Compressor make sure the Field Dominance is set to Progressive, turn on Frame control and set deinterlace to BEST. See if that helps.
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