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from HD/HDV to DV
Hey guys,
i don’t know if this part of the forum is the best one for this post, but since i use FCP…
so, i made a commercial shooted in DVCPRO 720p, and i made all the work in a timeline with the same settings (DVCPRO HD 50, progressive etc.). Now, since i need to make a master that’s a 4:3 DV-Pal, i export my timeline and put it directly into a DV-pal one, so that it will directly match the frame size to a 4:3 letterbox. obviously there’s a loss of quality since it’s a DV timeline, but i can’t really understand why the footage suddenly appears to be interlaced, even if the setting of the DV timeline is progressive. i mean, watching it in a TV monitor it has the smoothness of a progressive footage, but some strange lines (really similar to the one of a bad interlaced) appears in the footage.
any idea and/or suggestion? what am i missing? thanks in advance!
micheleMichele Stocco
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[michele stocco] “i made a commercial shooted in DVCPRO 720p, and i made all the work in a timeline with the same settings (DVCPRO HD 50, progressive etc.)”
Two things wrong with this statement.
#1 – Doesn’t jive with your Subject line…HDV. This is DVCPRO HD, not HDV.
#2 – As I said, this is DVCPRO HD, so why did you edit DVCPRO HD 50? DVCPRO 50 is an SD format….DVCPRO HD is DVCPRO 100. SO your sequence settings, are the DVCPRO HD or DVCPRO 50?
[michele stocco] “obviously there’s a loss of quality since it’s a DV timeline, but i can’t really understand why the footage suddenly appears to be interlaced, even if the setting of the DV timeline is progressive”
Are you sure? Go into the Sequence Settings…what does it say for Field Dominance? Should be NONE. If it isn’t, set it to none. Then the interlacing won’t show up.
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