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HDV to Quicktime: strobelike video
Don’t know why I am getting this result when exporting HDV to QT since I have done this many times without problems. Never worked with HDV from a Panasonic HVX 200 before but I doubt this is the culprit.
No matter what flavor QT I output: uncompressed 8 bit, ProRes HQ, H264, they all show the same jittery behaviour when an actor walks thru a scene. Other scenes are pretty much static so it’s not noticeable there.
Interestingly I found out that when I play the H264 file in a smaller window -say 50% of the original size- it plays smoothly. I have a G5 Quad with 3,5 GB of RAM so that shouldn’t be the bottleneck.
I should be fine exporting from FCP to selfcontained H264 without altering any settings, right?
But obviously some data flow is choking somewhere. I’ve been searching the net and find a lot of similar stories- but no clear solution. What’s going on and how can I avoid this?
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First you need to realize that the HVX 200 shoots DVC Pro HD not HDV.
Steve Eisen
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And then you must realize that interlacing really shows up on QT outputs. You will see both fields (two fields per frame) so it will look odd, the lines are very present. Output this to a broadcast monitor or TV, and you will not see this interlacing. But QT will see this.
If your final output is to be QT, then you need to shoot progressive, or at least output progressive. This will take longer…deinterlacing…but then your QTs will look right.
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