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Lines at top of capture
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Either. In fcp there’s a crop feature. Check out the manual.
Best,
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oh crap, and all these years I’ve just made the vid a tad larger. spank me with a spoon:)
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Hi Dave,
Cropping in FCP doesn’t change the sequence settings. Why bother with a slug?
Joey -
Makes total sense to do a hard matte. I just though all of his footage was that way, so in effect doing the same thing.
Joey -
I’m not at the computer right now but it does seem to happen on the majority of footage, possibly all of it, which is why I thought it would be the settings in final cut.
I’ll have a look at the crop option in final cut and see how that turns out. I guess it’s just a case of trying the different suggestions and seeing what turns out best.
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That’s not VITC which extends all the way across the lines (pal lines 19 and 21). The dv aspect ratio answer is the correct one. I would add that having this in the active picture *might* lead to a QC failure at a broadcaster. Also if this video is used in a graphics box for example during an end credit squeeze back then it may be visible. Also if you are watching a 16:9 transmission letterboxed on a 4:3 tv you may see the entire active picture. I have seen these lines many times at home in the UK. Crop scale or add a thin black box on a layer above.
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“Now your remark about scaling the video is ridicolous.
No-one scales his video to get rid of edged”Sorry Bourke but you clearly haven’t had footage like this rejected by a broadcast tech check. You absolutely MUST zoom up to remove both the VITC from the top of frame and the black edging around the frame.
As someone who delivers for broadcast all the time, I cannot get a shot like that past a tech check without removing side bars, bottom bar and VITC. Jerry’s remarks were correct and far from “ridicolous”
For the web, I would zoom up also to make the image sit neatly. It looks amateur to see VITC and uneven black bars. We are talking about a zoom of about 2%, hardly a catastrophe.
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Just wanted to throw my 2 cents in. Michael is absolutely correct blowing it up is the best way to get rid vitc. We do it all the time at work. No one will see any difference in quality beause youre barely increasing the footage size. I would edit the project then nest it in another sequence and then scale it up.
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Sorry to keep this going, but if this footage is interlaced, wouldn’t a scale potentially throw the interlacing off?
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[Jason Brown] “if this footage is interlaced, wouldn’t a scale potentially throw the interlacing off?”
No. Scaling has no affect on field order. If we couldn’t zoom up interlaced footage, we would never be able to get rid of microphones and matte boxes.
Try it. A few percent is imperceptible.
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