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FCP 5 interlacing and flicker problem on DVD
So I’m Using a new G5 quad with FCP5, I dont have a TV to check it so I have to burn. For the project I used have stored digital footge at blackmagic 10-bit, and the over half I ripped from a DVD using DVDxDV and brought that in uncompressed blackmagic 10-bit.
The stored digital footage came from a FCP 3 machine so I had to have FCP5 update it.
After putting the two clips together and put it through compresser it came out with a flicker and looked interlaced on the TV. The brightness is fine on the Mac and you see the interlace alittle which is fine.
So the client is not happy with the flicker at the moment, would switching it to high instrad of dynamic help?
Also this 6 mins of footage to compresser took 50mins to turn it into an Mv2. What can help speed it up?
hope I gave enough info. Really need any answer on thi, its a brand new FCP5 station so i figure these problems would happen.
Thanks in advance.
-Kyle Lauck
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You should not be in dynamic, but high. Dynamic is merely for previewing your unrendered effects. After doing so, switch to High quality. You should also render with the dark green FULL bars checked in your Sequence>Render Menus.
You say you don’t “have a TV”. Many of your problems would be detected before you burned your DVD if you did have one – even a cheap one. You can add flicker filters or deinterlace filters to solve most problems. But you are currently “flying blind”. You really, really, need to monitor your work as you work on a video monitor.
I suggest you go down to Costco or whatever and get yourself something to use for monitoring your images. Then when your ship comes in, get yourself a real production video monitor – as a pro video editor should have.
There really is no good excuse for not monitoring correctly in FCP.
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Thank you for the reply, I’ll switch it, but I dont see a differnce on screen so does that mean with the setting(FCP5) on high I will see it on the final render? Also are there any setting I need to change to take advange of the quad speed G5 I’m using? I understand I need a monitor to find the flaws in the video, but my company is new to in-house broadcasting and has not given me one yet, I hope to have one soon but in the mean time I have to burn DVDs for them and little problems come up.
Again thanks for the help.
-Kyle Lauck
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Is it possible you are seeing the effect of incorrect field order.? FCP normally is lower field first. I have no idea what the field order of your other media is. Check to make sure everything is consistent and that your encoder is set to the correct field order. When I made my first DVDs I was using some footage from a Media100, AfterFX and FCP. One of them had different field order from the others. When I viewed it on the DVD, the incorrect footage looked hyper-interlaced with everything shaking. Just a thought.
John
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Hook up an ordinary TV set then. Surely a production studio has an extra lying around.
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