FCP High Def Editing

[Laura Moore]

okay, after adjsuting the sequence settings appropriately. i was able to export several mini tests that worked well! i sent them to compressor without a problem and they are now set up in DSP ready for project completion. However, the beef of the project is my 16 minutes wedding highlight video.

i finished the 4 hour exporting the 6 minute video from FCP and found out that i hadn’t changed the sequence settings after all. After i nawed the frustration out of my keyboard, i got back to work, changed the sequence setting and now the picture seems streched again. this time, it doesn’t seem to make sense though. the footage is 1440 x 1080i at 29.97 fps captured in AIC50 format. I adjust the sequence settings to match just that and it is, indeed stretched and about 1/3 of the size of the canvas instead of filling it to the edges like it was with the other sequences that were adjusted accordingly.

what am i doing wrong?! this is due tomorrow and i’ve been working on this project for the past 48 hrs!

Laura K. Moore
Juxtapose Media

[David Roth weiss]

I am not fully briefed on your entire series of issues Laura, but it certainly sounds to me as though you simply need to change the “distort” setting to “0” in the motion tab for all problem clips. Then you should be fine.

If you don’t have any basic motion settings that you’ve changed that you need to keep, you could fix all the problem clips at once by highlighting them and using “remove attributes,” then check the “basic motion” box when the window comes up.

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

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[Laura Moore]

halelujah! i pick up on things slow but “removing attributes” was indeed my main problem. I have exported everything with the necessary formatting: 1440x1080i AIC50 and everything looks good EXCEPT

THEIR IS THEIR WEIRD BLACK FLICKER EVERY 5-10 seconds. its not consistent. i checked the timeline and pre-export their is no flicker! i’ve exported other movies with just one layer of audio and one layer of audio and their is no flicker. now with this particular video where i’m dealing with 5-10 levels of audio and video i get the flicker. The flicker is about the lengths of a single frame. is it a dropped frame happening in the export?

Laura K. Moore
Juxtapose Media

[David Roth weiss]

Check Sequence — Render All and be certain you have “Full” checked there. If it’s not, your timeline has not been full rendered, so check it and render re-render.

And, also, under Sequence — Render Only you will see the final entry is “mixdown.” Do that…

Those are about the only things I can think of.

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

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[Matt Larson]

Just glancing through this topic and one thing stuck out at me: You captured in 1080i50 (as in 50 frames per second), but it sounds like your footage is 1080i 29.97 (29.97 frames per second).

Are you working in the US? If so, you should be working with US frame rates based on 29.97 exclusively (or 23.98). In this case, it should be 1080i60. I would imagine having this descrepency could cause seemingly random flashes every so often to account for the different frame rates.

Unfortunately, I’m not sure how you could fix this issue without recapturing.

[Marianne Angelillo]

I am a new high def FCP user with version 6. I have a recurring problem that FCP does not recognize my canon cameras(gl2 and now a vixia hv 30) so I inputted the hd video via imovie and then imported the files to FCP. I have now a beautiful sequence with no flickering, ready for DVD. I outputted the sequence and burned to IDVD and the final product flickers in certain spots and the quality is less than using my standard def video. I am so disappointed but somehow think I am doing something wrong. I have never had my videos flicker(usually I see this in photos but not video). I believe my sequence settings are right (hddvcpro 1080i60) so now am suspicious how the best way to export and then burn to dvd. I understand I cannot burn high def but I hope the quality is better than the flickering problem…..thanks so much for any help with a good strategy to export hd and burn standard video….Marianne ANgelillo

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