Media 100 Producer: import a DV 16:9 anamorphic

[Floh Peters]

[Alessio Gemma] “I was asking you if I’ve to check “Interlaced” in the Apple ProRes codec settings for capture (you can do this even when export from edit suite in Media 100 using Quick Time exporter).
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Um, no you said that the MPEG2 preset was set to “Automatic” field order, but anyway.
If your source is interlaced you should check the interlaced setting for ProRes. You don

[Alessio Gemma]

[Floh] “If your source is interlaced you should check the interlaced setting for ProRes.”

Ok, so I’ve to check it everytime I import/export in ProPres. For example, if you export self-contained from FCP or Media 100, it automatically set to “Progressive”… I’m not sure, but it seems like this.

[Floh] “You have a kind of strobe look due to the fact that you have progressive material which seems to have not enough motion blur, but I don

[Floh Peters]

If your source is 1080i50 you should get fields, but it seems like FCP does not properly downconvert from 1080i to PAL SD, since your capture.mov file has no fields. This would explain the strobe look, since the shutter is too fast for progressive due to the fact that it was shot interlaced. Not sure if/how/where you can adjust the way FCP or your camera downconverts your source.

[Alessio Gemma]

[Floh] “If your source is 1080i50 you should get fields, but it seems like FCP does not properly downconvert from 1080i to PAL SD, since your capture.mov file has no fields. This would explain the strobe look, since the shutter is too fast for progressive due to the fact that it was shot interlaced.”

Mmmm.. the strange thing is that I just tried to capture in 1080i from HDMI using Intensity Pro and, even if I see an excellent quality without any strobe effect (in the capture preview window in FCP), than the captured clip has still the strobe effect.

So, if I have FCP and Producer and an HDV camcorder… I’m totally in pain! 🙁

[Floh Peters]

Then let

[Alessio Gemma]

Yeah, I trust in Media 100!

Last thing: if I capture in HDV and I solve the issue of the strobe effect, how can I resize the clip corretly to import in Producer?
Maybe you’ve a good workflow for me (or maybe you already did it)… I really hope the last one! 😉

Alessio

[Floh Peters]

[Alessio Gemma] “Last thing: if I capture in HDV and I solve the issue of the strobe effect, how can I resize the clip corretly to import in Producer?
Maybe you’ve a good workflow for me (or maybe you already did it)… I really hope the last one! 😉
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Resize like in from HD to SD, or resize like in from 4:3 to 16:9? If you mean setting your clips to 16:9, simply select the clips in the bin, and then select “Media->Change Media Attributes”. Set them to 16:9 there and everything is fine.

[Alessio Gemma]

[Floah] “Resize like in from HD to SD, or resize like in from 4:3 to 16:9?”

I mean: capture HDV from FireWire in FCP (and see if the strobe goes away), than resize the clip to a SD compatible format (better if 16:9) and, finally, import, edid and export it in Producer.
I don’t know how to make my shooted tapes good looking, I’m thinking all the possible ways…

Alessio

[Alessio Gemma]

Hello Floh,
I solved the issue of the “strobe effect” in the HDMI capture scheme: anyway, it stills remain when I downconvert from HDV to DV and I really don’t know how to solve it.
Maybe you were right: my camcorder and FCP don’t work well together in the downconversion workflow.
The last thing I can do it’s to downcovert through software the 1920×1080 50i ProRes clip, captured through HDMI: anyway, I’ve to pass from square pixels to non square pixels and downscaling to PAL 720×576 (PAR 1,42): do you thing Compressor is a good choice for this?

Regards,
Alessio