Exporting HD project w/o line factoring

[James Beattie]

Can you try a QT refernce to the desktop and see if you get this factoring?

Is it a tearing?

James Beattie
ACSR Elite/Avid ACI, Apple Certified Technician

Consulting for Workflow and Digital Technologies at Comprehensive Technical Group

[David Lewis]

James, Thank you for your quick response.

I tried a QT Ref. file. It seems not to have those line factoring… like seeing the “lines” of the frames horizontally across the screen. But, it did not play smoothly, a very heavy file so it seems.

David C. Lewis
Editor- Director
DCL Video Productions

[Shane Ross]

[David Lewis] ” It was shot at 1080i/50fps(PAL system), though the fps on the MC 6 project shows it as 25 fps.”

Just so you know, 1080i50 runs at 25fps. The “i” indicates INTERLACED, which is two fields per second. So the number that follows indicates how many fields per second. 50 fields per second is 25fps. So you are shooting an interlaced, 25fps format.

That also is what you are seeing…interlacing. This works fine for TV, but is bad bad bad for the web and computer only viewing. You need to shoot Progressive for that. 1080p25…the “p” means progressive, full frames. So 25p is 25fps, no interlacing.

DV, SD and HD can be interlaced. If you don’t want interlaced…you can de-interlace when you export…and just shoot PROGRESSIVE from now on.

Shane
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[Pat Horridge]

Yes sounds like 50i source material with interlaced content.
If you work with a 25P project format and the media is correctly flagged as interlaced MC will drop a motion adapter to de-interlace the content.
Or work interlaced and then choose to de-interlace when you encode.

Lots of choices on how to de-interlace and getting it right is important to retain quality.

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[David Lewis]

Hi Shane and Pat:

Yup… it was shot as “i” and thus this problem exists.

I’ll assume that if I export and choose “deinterlace” that should solve/help the line/field problem be resolved.

Would it be better to export in it’s native codec and not deinterlace and then take it to Sorensen Squeeze to make it a deinterlaced H264 for a disk or Interent viewing?

And advice well placed… I do try and shoot “p” on professional work, but this was shot on my consumer camera and I didn’t think to even look for “p” (found out it DOES have a 50p option… too late) option.

Thanks for your input.

David C. Lewis
Editor- Director
DCL Video Productions

[Pat Horridge]

I don’t use the export option in MC for anything other than same as source exports as it’s slow and not great.
O I’d either de-interlace in MC using motion adapters and then export as a Progressive file or export interlaced and de-interlace in Squeeze.
Squeeze as some nice controls over the de-interlacing and you can preview the result to get it right. Also Squeeze gives you more control over the encode parameters and is often quicker.

Pat Horridge
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[David Lewis]

Thank you Pat.

Your advice sounds good. I now recall someone else once told me best to always export “as is” from the edit system (AVID and FCP, I believe). Then, as you noted, work with the media file in a tool such as Squeeze.

I’ll try that and I hope it does the trick. This will be a good trial/error preparing for jobs that aren’t a personal home video project!

All the best,

David C. Lewis
Editor- Director
DCL Video Productions