FCPX editing hdv optimizing material

[Jerry Hofmann]

Stay native in size until the very end. Resizing twice just doesn’t sound like a good idea at all. Do the damage only once.

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[Fredy Schwerdtner]

thanks for your answer.
I did as you said before I’ve received your answer.
I ingested or imported, I don’t know anymore the nomenclature …lol, I did the editings, color correction, “shared” exporting movie (prores .mov) and then sent to Compressor to get the Motion Jpeg codec (as asked by the client) but I had to use the Compressor 3.5 because Compressor 4 does not have that codec. There I changed the size to 1920×1080, progressive (the original material was 60i) and also tweaked a little with Frame Controls pushing the Anti-Alias to 35.
The result was not fantastic as it could be if the clips were shot in native HD but they look ok.

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[Loren Risker]

There might be a couple problems with your workflow.

You might find it helps to deinterlace your 60i footage before sending it through compressor if you’re getting interlacing artifacts such as combing.

As for the resolution, HDV 1080i is actually the same as 1920×1080, but because of the aspect ratio of the pixels it comes in as 1440. Changing the pixel aspect ratio to square should result in a 1920×1080 file, if FCPX doesn’t do it automatically.

I haven’t run any HDV 60i footage yet, but if you need more help I’d be happy to try to recreate your workflow and see if we can’t clean it up any more.

[Fredy Schwerdtner]

Dear fellow,
Thanks for your interest in helping me.
Looking carefully on the Inspector window and selecting 1 clip on timeline, it shows 1440×1080 29,97 fps — 1080i HD — codec HDV 1080i60 (25 mb/s) Linear PCM. I’m trying to post a pic here ….

You said: “but because of the aspect ratio of the pixels it comes in as 1440. Changing the pixel aspect ratio to square should result in a 1920×1080 file, if FCPX doesn’t do it automatically. “
I guess FCPX, by Inspector, did not change automatically … If it is so, I will have to change the pixel aspect ratio and I could do it in Compressor, right ?

Thanks again ….

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