Echoed images

[David Roth weiss]

Why are you capturing with iMovie?

What is your source material, and framerate?

David Roth Weiss
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[Jeremy Garchow]

Can you please post a link?

[Gennaro Ambrosino]

Thank you for your reply David.

I’m moving my really first steps with this and it seemed to me easier to use imovie to capture the footage.

I’m sorry to write this but I’m not too sure where to find out about source material and frame rate. I filmed in hdv with a sony fx7e.

For what I’ve seen online I think it’s an issue of de-interlacing but not too sure how to solve this.

please help!

Thanks

Gennaro

[Gennaro Ambrosino]

hi Jeremy,

it’s not online yet. This is the link to the previous one (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQUDYlA13LY) which was captured as 960×540 but as the standard quality on youtube is quite low I’ve decided to recapture it in full 1920×1080 and this is where I’m having this problem.

Thanks

Gennaro

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[David Roth weiss]

[Gennaro Ambrosino] “I’m moving my really first steps with this and it seemed to me easier to use imovie to capture the footage. “

Easier is not better, at least in this case. You’ll need to learn FCP eventually, why not now?

If you follow the brief tutorial below every time you begin a FCP project from now on, you’ll go on to fame an fortune as a FCP editor.

https://library.creativecow.net/articles/biscardi_walter/realtime_sequences.php

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

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A forum host of Creative COW’s Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, and Indie Film & Documentary forums.

[Gennaro Ambrosino]

Thanks David! you’re a star!

the problem was obviously there!
There’s only one more thing that I need to understand please:

The sequence I was working with before was:

1920×1080
aspect ratio: square
compressor: hdv 1080p 25

while my clips are:

1440×1080
aspect ratio: HD(1440×1080)
compressor: iCodec

When I change the sequence settings to match my clips settings it does solve the “echo”/de-interlacing problem but for some reason the image is now stretched.

If I create a new project/sequence with the right settings and drag the initial sequence, it asks me if I want to match the sequence settings with the item settings and if I say no it just matches it to the sequence settings and all looks fine. Though it’s one merged sequence which I can’t edit (unless double click and go back to the previous one); instead if I copy all the edited clips on the initial sequence to paste them to the new correct sequence it just place them and they look stretched.(hope I’m making sense!)

Is there a way to fix this, without me starting all over again and rebuild the sequence from the original unedited clips?

Thanks

Gennaro

[David Roth weiss]

To get rid of the stretched image you need to change distort to zero (in the motion tab) of all clips. To do for all, select all clips by and then right click on one and choose Remove Attributes>>Distort.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

POST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™

A forum host of Creative COW’s Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, and Indie Film & Documentary forums.

[Gennaro Ambrosino]

David I’m really really really thankful and glad I joined the creative cow!

Gennaro

[David Roth weiss]

That’s really nice good to hear Gennaro! Good feedback is always welcome.

Have a great time learning and don’t hesitate to come back anytime to ask questions.

Now, onto fame and fortune…

Best of luck,
David

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

POST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™

A forum host of Creative COW’s Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, and Indie Film & Documentary forums.