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Field dominance settings
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[Andreas Eidhagen] “That’s pretty much what I thought, but how do people work with a project thats shot on 35, scanned and graded to a HDSR and then onlined and back to HDSR and film? What’s the typical workflow in final cut? “
Just like I said, Andreas. Right after you capture, you right click the filed dominance column and change it to none for all of your captured clips (you can select as many clips as you want when performing this step and chnage them all at once). You then edit in a none timeline. This will provide progressive renders and will also allow a PsF layoff to tape. You don’t have to have interlaced transitions, FCO is fully capable of pregressive rendering. You can have psf which is progressive carried an interlaced stream. What FCP will not allow is clips that are marked as Upper field in a none timeline. The field order of both your clips and timeline must match.
Since you have begun the edit (and I’m sorry, this is just going to be the way it is) you need to first change all of the clips in your browser so that any future edits will be added correctly. Then you will have to open your sequence(s) and change each clip one by one. The clips in the timeline are separate instances of the clips in the browser, so just changing them in the browser won’t change them in the timeline. You can select all the clips in the timeline, then right click and choose item properties > format. You then find the row marked field dominance and change each clip to none. Make sure your timeline is set to none as well.
It’s a pain if the edit process has already begun.
Jeremy
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Jesus, that means that when conforming a feature film at 2 hours, with an edit every 10 seconds, that means that i have to do this to 720 clips when conforming from an EDL? That’s insane.
But thanks for all the great responses, really helped a lot, i just think it’s really wierd that’s the only way to do it.
/ Andreas
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[walter biscardi] “I don’t believe that’s possible. Your timeline is interlaced. Transitions will be the same as the timeline. “
Andreas is talking PAL here guys and YES this is how it is done in the PAL workflow.
( frame rates are 25 and 50 so NO Pulldown)
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[Andreas Eidhagen] “That’s insane. “
Yeah, a little. The trick is to do this process right after you capture and before you start the edit as you can do multiple clips in the browser (as many you can select at once). It’s just once they get in to the timeline that it becomes a chore.
I wonder, maybe try sending AJA an email and see of they can create a set of psf easy setups that automatically tag the clips as None. This would change everything and you wouldn’t have to worry about this tiny detail. I’ll do the same.
Jeremy
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Iv’e sent an email to the Aja people at the same time as i started this thread but haven’t heard back from them yet. Usually they are pretty fast to answer the support mails so im certain i’ll get one soon enough.
That would really help a lot if it’s possible to get the clips in directly set to none.
But anyway, thanks a lot.
/ Andreas
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I’ll write too and see if I can get anything.
Jeremy
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Even if the field dominance setting of your Sequence is “None” and every clip in your Timeline has a field dominance setting of “None”, then your transitions may still render interlaced, due to a bug in FCP that I have personally verified through extensive testing.
The best thing you can do is complain to Apple. If enough people complain, perhaps the problem will be fixed. Alternatively, if you know an Apple developer with an inside connection, have that person complain.
By the way, one user reports having this problem beginning with FCP 6.0.3.
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