Interlace Crawl

[Aaron Neitz]

dude, we need more info than that.

what camera, what format tape, how are you bringing it in, what timeline settings are you using, at what point are you seeing the interlace artifacts, are you watching this on a TV monitor or a progressive display like a LCD?

[Michael Gissing]

If you have shot progressive there is nothing to deinterlace. I think you are seeing motion jerking that progressive frames have when move speed and shutter speed combinations lead to a strobing or stepping.

The camera op should have seen the same thing in the viewfinder. Shutter control on the camera can help reduce this. What happens when you just view the footage straight onto a monitor, not going via FCP? If it looks different, then it may be FCP sequence settings.

[Scott Gray]

Sorry to be so vague. I’m shooting with an HVX200 on P2 cards which I’m importing into FCP. My sequence frame rate is 29.97. I’m shooting a scene that has a stone fireplace. As the camera pushes, the seams in between the stones are jittering and pulsating. This is amplified during the MP2 encoding process using Compressor. By the time it gets to a 42″ LCD screen it looks horrible.

I thought that shooting in progressive, making a progressive DVD, and playing back on a progressive DVD player on a progressive LCD screen would eliminate the interlaced looking jitter.

[Scott Gray]

Sorry to be so vague. I’m shooting with an HVX200 on P2 cards which I’m importing into FCP. My sequence frame rate is 29.97. I’m shooting a scene that has a stone fireplace. As the camera pushes, the seams in between the stones are jittering and pulsating. This is amplified during the MP2 encoding process using Compressor. By the time it gets to a 42″ LCD screen it looks horrible.

I thought that shooting in progressive, making a progressive DVD, and playing back on a progressive DVD player on a progressive LCD screen would eliminate the interlaced looking jitter.

[Scott Gray]

Sorry to be so vague. I’m shooting with an HVX200 on P2 cards which I’m importing into FCP. My sequence frame rate is 29.97. I’m shooting a scene that has a stone fireplace. As the camera pushes, the seams in between the stones are jittering and pulsating. This is amplified during the MP2 encoding process using Compressor. By the time it gets to a 42″ LCD screen it looks horrible.

I thought that shooting in progressive, making a progressive DVD, and playing back on a progressive DVD player on a progressive LCD screen would eliminate the interlaced looking jitter.