DV50 is Ruined in FCP 6

[Sean Oneil]

I’ve done more testing and confirmed it. It has nothing to do with the project file, or the hardware.

Good news is that it looks like this only happens with DV50 footage captured in FCP5. Another good thing is that there is a workaround.

If you export the clips as self-contained and then re-import, the problem goes away.

I was using “Export -> Quicktime Movie”, “current settings”, “self-contained”, and did NOT have “recompress all frames” checked. So it was a lossless export of cuts-only video that did not re-compress anything. And it fixed it.

In additon to the actual movie, Quicktime files store metadata which contains information like timecode, field dominance, aspect ratio, etc. My theory is that the way FCP 5 creates this data is different than the way FCP 6 creates it. And of course that FCP 6 does not properly interpret what FCP 5 creates. At least not with DV50 NTSC footage captured from an AJ-1200A.

So be careful. It is very hard to see. You need to look carefully on a broadcast monitor and you might not even see it unless there is a smooth and slow camera pan.

Sean

[Jeremy Garchow]

If I were you I’d bite the bullet, rent a dv50 deck for the day and recapture. Save you soooo much work and rendering time.

Jeremy

[Sean Oneil]

[JeremyG] “If I were you I’d bite the bullet, rent a dv50 deck for the day and recapture. Save you soooo much work and rendering time.”

Thanks but its all good. We still have systems with version 5. Worked fine and just barely made FedEx.

Sean

[Walter Biscardi]

[Sean ONeil] “‘ve done more testing and confirmed it. It has nothing to do with the project file, or the hardware.

Good news is that it looks like this only happens with DV50 footage captured in FCP5. Another good thing is that there is a workaround.”

I just upgraded to Studio 2 and upon opening several DVCPro HD 1080i/60 projects finished in 5.1.4, FCP brought up a dialogue box “The filter Shift Fields appears to have been applied incorrectly, would you like to fix this?” or something like that. Shift Fields was NOT applied anywhere in the project. I said “No” to the request and the video played back fine.

Did you get any sort of dialogue like this when you opened the project or have you looked to make sure this filter was not applied to your footage? Stuttery video does sound a bit like a reverse field issue.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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