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HD in an SD sequence trouble FCP7
I just installed FCP 7 and have a AJA Kona LHe with the newest drivers. I shot HD footage in both 720P60 and 1080i60 with my JVC HM-700 camera.
I’m trying to place my HD footage in an SD sequence. Everything looks fine in FCP , but on my NTSC monitor the video is very aliased and shaky. I’ve rendered the sequence entirely, and video does not look this way with other regular SD material. On the computer display, the video looks good.
Surprisingly, the 1080i60 footage looks much worse. I’ve tried changing field dominance, but with no luck. I expected the conversion to be very clean, especially because my frame rates match.
Any ideas where I should start? Anyone else have similar problems?
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there is a field order shift in the 1080i, which is upper and SD is always lower in NTSC.
I do hardware down converts HD is downconverted by the Kona card and captured to my MBP via the AJA IoHD (or SD Io). This gives me the best quality. It is worth looking into if you are going to be doing a lot and don’t have a DigiBeta deck. This, of course, is also realtime.
If you don’t I would recommend using Compressor to downconvert the HD footage. DO small test of the setting to get it where you want.
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