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Interlace Issues
I’m bringing in Beta video through an IOLa 8-bit uncompressed into FCP 5. My issues is this, the video is severly interlaced…very noticable, especially in shots with movement (I was using football highlites). When I add the de-interlace filter, it all looks fine. Do I have a setting wrong? Or is the issue with the fact that I’m only using composite in/out right now until I move the editor into it’s final resting place when the furniture arrives?
Thanks in advance,
Marc Rolph
Producer/Director
Mississippi State University -
4 Replies
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Sounds like you’re either editing in a DV timeline or your fields are reversed.
Ensure your Capture Settings are for Lower Field First as is your Sequence Settings. The easiest way to do this is to simpy use an Easy Setup for NTSC 8bit.
feel free to call if you want to walk through it on the phone, I’m in Atlanta. Phone number on my website.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Creative Genius, Biscardi Creative Media
https://www.biscardicreative.comNow in Production, “The Rough Cut,” https://www.theroughcutmovie.com
Now editing “Good Eats” in HD for the Food Network
“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
G5 Dual 2.0, AJA Kona 2, Medea FCR2X
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Just like Walter said. Your video interlace is backwards. It should all be lower field. Any BetaSP footage is always lower field first. You should select your Easy Setup as whatever you wish before capturing any footage, so that all the settings are the same throughout the entire project. If you do this first, then you footage will match your timelines.
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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions -
I checked my settings, and I found where it’s certainly lower field first with my sequence settings, but I’ve been unable to find where I can make a definitive location on where it lists lower field first for capture settings. I’m using the easy setup for 8-bit uncompressed on both sequence and capture through the IOLa. I’ll take another stab at this, and try to get this right, before I bother you on the phone Walter.
Marc Rolph
Producer/Director
Mississippi State University -
[Marc Rolph] “I’m using the easy setup for 8-bit uncompressed on both sequence and capture through the IOLa.”
If you’re using the Easy Setup, just make sure it’s the NTSC Easy Setup. If you are, then it’s definitely lower field first. In your browser you can scroll along until you see a column, Field Dominance. All your clips should be Lower (Even).
One thing it could be is that you could be editing in a DV timeline by mistake. FCP defaults to DV-NTSC every time you trash your Prefs. If you start a New Project you will automatically see a Sequence 1 appear in your Browser. That Sequence 1 is a DV-NTSC Sequence.
Now if go to Easy Setup and change everything to 8bit NTSC, that Sequence 1 will NOT change automatically, it will remain a DV timeline. Every Sequence you create AFTER the Easy Setup, will automatically be an 8bit NTSC timeline, but not that first one. This could make your uncompressed material look reverse interlaced depending on what scan line it’s sitting on vertically.
That’s a really big gotcha that used to hang me all the time when I first started in FCP. I have no idea why Apple does this as it’s a royal pain the rear for a while until you get the hang of it. No Sequences should appear until after you’ve set the project prefs in my opinion.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Creative Genius, Biscardi Creative Media
https://www.biscardicreative.comNow in Production, “The Rough Cut,” https://www.theroughcutmovie.com
Now editing “Good Eats” in HD for the Food Network
“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
G5 Dual 2.0, AJA Kona 2, Medea FCR2X
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