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HDV 60i in FCPX
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Anna, it’s also possible that all your frames are simply not calculated yet.
Do this test. Park on a frame.
How does the quality look there?
If that image is to your tastes, it’s actually quite likely that will be what you get when your export is fully rendered and exported.
There are exceptions – but quite often, what X shows you in order to let you work quickly and fluidly, is not the same as the resolution and quality you’ll get when everything is said and done.
I always recommend that if you’re worried, don’t accept the interface presentation at face value. Do a test. Take a sample range and export it and perhaps even post it to the service you’re eventually going to target. Trust THAT.
Good luck.
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I find that FCPX’s deinterlacing can be a little underwhelming at times. If all else fails try using JES Deinterlacer on your footage first.
https://jeschot.home.xs4all.nl/home.html
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The footage looks like it was correctly captured so that can be ruled out.
The blurry frames look like camera motion blur which is normal.
I did a few tests and what looks best is 30p with frame blending and deinterlace enabled. That said, 60p with deinterlace looked pretty darn good too just slightly softer as FCP X is creating the other half of the lines of resolution where the 30p is using information from two fields to create a frame.
30p is sharper but you lose the fluid motion, 60p preserves motion but the image is somewhat softer. It comes down to what is important to you. Motion or sharpness?
https://f1.creativecow.net/10143/60p-deinterlace?uploaded=file
https://f1.creativecow.net/10144/30p-with-frame-blending-and-deinterlace-checked?uploaded=file
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With my Canon XA-20 I can shoot 60i, but that is really just the way they describe AVCHD 30 fps with interlacing. For sports now, I shoot 60 p (MP4)(60 fps) at 35 Mbits/sec and that gives the best results and can be directly uploaded to Youtube. It also looks great when you go to 50% for slow motion.
On the other hand in all the film school classes the teacher practically insist that we use 24p with a 180 degree shutter to make it film like.
Go figure.
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Thank you so much, Darren. So grateful that you (and everyone else who generously shared their knowledge!) took the time to help me with this. I didn’t realize it was the camera motion blur that caused the blurry frames.
The thing that most important to me at this point is sharpness, so I will follow your recommendation to edit on a 30p timeline and turn on frame blending and de-interlacing.
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