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fcp to compressor issue (prep for DVDSP)
hi,
i’m pretty sure i’m missing something totally basic here, but i can’t figure out the problem on my own…
i exported a qt movie (‘with current settings’) from my fcp timeline. looking at that in quicktime everything looks good. i then take that file into compressor and add the “DVD Best Quality – 90 min” setting. even before doing the recommended alterations (setting my bit rate & changing the audio dialog normalization to -31) if i go to preview the image comes out entirely interlaced. what is the preset doing that is affecting my ntsc dv 780×420 footage to make it look interlaced? the inspector recognizes field dominance as bottom first and everything looks normal. is there something i need to change in the frame controls section? (frame controls are currently off)
as a relative newbie i’m not entirely versed in the wonders of compressor and this is my first project experimenting with DVDSP (i had been using Toast) so i have no experience with this part of the process. and need to figure this out ASAP!! i really appreciate any and all help! please let me know if you need any more info. thanks in advance.
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ok, more specification:
quicktime file looks good in quicktime.
in Compressor & in DVDSPs internal compressor the video has major “mouse teeth”/”herringbone pattern” issues.what i can’t figure out is how something can change between the quicktime player and the viewers in Compressor/DVDSP OR if the issue can be fixed by changing something inside FCP and exporting another quicktime file with different settings.
hopefully this will help bring on the responses….
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Why wouldn’t it have interlacing? Most DV is interlaced. Open the export file in FCP and set the viewer or canvas to 100%. You should see the interlacing.
All the best,
Tom
Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP6,” “Basic Training for FCS2” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop” -
If you are only seeing this on the viewer of compressor then go ahead and compress the file and watch the file in QT AFTER it is compressed. The internal monitoring is often only one field.
David
Peace
David -
I’m confused—and I’ve been doing a lot of reading, so I’m really doing my best to totally understand this. I’m aware that DV is interlaced–and that TV and computers handle that information differently than computers. What I’m confused about is how to make a DVD with my footage (edited in the NTSC DV preset at 29.97fps) that will play and look good on both a television and a computer. (And I don’t have a monitor or even a tv at home to be able to do a quick check. so I wanted to make sure I was doing everything right inside my system first). Is what I’m looking at to be expected at this point in the process, and the DVD burning process fixes the issue? Or is there a step that I am missing?
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Nope, you’ve got the right steps. Drop your files into DVD SP, and burn away. Your computer will interpret the DVD properly to make it look as good as it can, as will your DVD player at home. Don’t necessarily fear what the end product will look like till you actually see it in the setting that it’s intended for.
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Thanks! Good to know at least I wasn’t doing anything wrong.
Thanks for the clarification, guys.
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