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Field Dominance Grief
Hello, we’ve been having some trouble with a couple of clips:
We captured some commercial spots with Final Cut Pro with a Decklink from BTC Digi in uncompressed 10-bit format with lower field dominance. Later, we imported these clips into After Effects and added some graphics and crawiling text. Exported from AE back into FCP for the final laydown on BTCDigi, all in lower field dominance.
What strangely happened is that in 2 out of the 5 spots the horizontal crawling text have field problems and the text “vibrates”. If we invert the field dominance, then the text is fine but the video “jumps”.
After many failed attempts with flicker filters, deinterlace filters, etc we finally fixed it by importing the original captured files into AE, exporting them back with field dominance set to none, then added the graphics and exported with field dominance to lower.
Is this how it should be done? Is there an easier way? Why only 2 clips out of the 5 presented this problem? Are we missing something?
Thanks to all for the help. Cheers!
Bunker Film & Post
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Do you have a visual link you can send? From your description it might be possible that FCP might be incorrectly interpolating (possibly automatically) the video into something else. For example, (DV aspect 720×480 versus NTSC 720×486) or Film pullup/down. Those are the guesses I can hazard 🙂
-Rob
Motion Graphics Animation
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