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  • Export problems!

    Posted by Michael Lavis on April 27, 2011 at 12:59 pm

    Hi

    I am currently working on a job and am making a set of three minute films. I am using a whole host of footage from all different sources, from DVcam, hd720p, hd1080i and also minidv. I have laid them onto a standard dvpal time line sequence and have started working on them. I have come to the end of the edit and i have been given instructions from my client on how he wants them to be exported.

    He has asked for them in these settings:

    From fcp export quicktime movie:

    video format 1024×576
    format options h.264 quality best
    frame rate: current key frames : automatic
    data rate: automatic
    frame re ordering yes
    encoding: multi pass
    filter : none
    size : current
    Don not de interlace source video

    So i have put all these settings into fcp export and once the film has exported and i watch it back it has some really bad interlacing problems. Jaggies are coming up when there is movement on screen. This is only coming up on the 1080i and DVcam footage.

    Can any one suggest a way i can get rid of the interlacing problems but keeping these settings??

    I hope u can help.

    Mike

    Andrew Rendell replied 15 years, 4 months ago 4 Members · 4 Replies
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  • Chris Tompkins

    April 27, 2011 at 1:24 pm

    If you are viewing this playing back on a computer screen – you will see the interlacing in interlaced footage.
    How is the client going to use these files?
    They wanted it interlaced…

    Chris Tompkins
    Video Atlanta LLC

  • Michael Lavis

    April 27, 2011 at 1:55 pm

    They wanted them to be shown from a computer and projected on a large screen. The client has seen the footage and wants the jaggies removed.

    I am a post graduate and have only been working a year so my knowledge is still not great in the world of export/compression/codecs etc!!

    I have done a version and ticked the box to deinterlace and this seems to resolve the problem but the image looks slightly softer and not as sharp. Is there any other way to corect this??

    mike

  • Paul Jay

    April 27, 2011 at 4:23 pm

    Use compressor and De-interlace on high quality. ( Edit the H264 preset in Compressor )

  • Andrew Rendell

    April 27, 2011 at 4:36 pm

    I agree with Paul – export the timeline in current settings and use Compressor to make that version.

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