• Apple Final Cut Pro

  Field Dominance to Progressive for 1080i video

  Posted by Andy Smith on June 26, 2011 at 8:15 am

  I’m working with my first new set of media since FCPX came out and since the last project I have started to film in a more static fashion without camera zooms relying instead on using scaling and panning in FC to do that work. The output will be mostly for SD so I believed that to be the best option with my recordings on my Sony HDR-SR12E which I use to record in 1080i.

  The camera was bought for me as a Christmas present a few years back and to be honest I don’t really have the budget to change it yet for one with a native progressive shooting mode so I was looking at the best way of keeping the picture sharp whilst avoiding some of the combing issues that I have seen on some of my earlier videos.

  It looks to me that the best thing to do is to have FC make the video Progressive but I was wondering what the pros and cons of doing this are for doing this for both DVD and computer based playback?

  I’m particularly interested if anybody has any insight into how FC now manages the change from interleaved to progressive given the 2nd field is of course lies between full frames in the recorded timeline.

  In older versions the Deinterlace filter was known to decimate one of the fields and interpolate the missing information to produce a Progressive format but I don’t find any explanation of the new scheme, if indeed it is a new scheme.

  Andy Smith replied 14 years, 10 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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