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Mixed SD and HD footage – what to do?
9 mins long, 7 mins is DV50 PAL, 1024×576.
The rest is 720P50
If I place the HD footage on the SD timeline, it scales down just fine. But I do get moving artifacs, or rather a sense of “film”. I guess thus is because of the default frame rate.
Is there anythin I can do to make the HD footage “mix” better with the SD footage? You also see the effect in dissolves between the HD and SD footage.
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[Niklas Wikman] “DV50 PAL, 1024×576.”
How is your SD footage this dimension? That isn’t the normal dimensions for PAL SD. 720×576 is.
Shane
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Of course it is 720×576. But since it is widescreen, the ref movie plays at 1024×576.
I guess the best thing would be to use either Episode 6 or perhaps Compressor and transcode the 720P50 footage to SD….?
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Oh, sorry!
It will most likely end up on the web.
The reason for the mixed footage is that some of the parts was taken from another project, when we had made the shift from SD to HD.
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I wish I knew what you were describing. Because I can’t picture it. Some sort of artifacting is happening. I wonder if it has to do with the pixel dimensions of both formats.
Shane
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Yes, SD is interlaced. And is 90 percent of the film.
Hence the question if anything can be done with the HD footage (which is progressive).
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If this is going to end up on the web, then you want to deinterlace the SD footage. The web doesn’t display interlacing properly, only TVs do.
Shane
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Dang…
I was hoping you would suggest the other way around…
So, what’s the best eay to go? Compressor? Episode?
I hope I can use the final film – or are we talking about de-interlace every single footage file here?
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*sighs and shrugs*
Thanks Dave and Shane – you had me there.
This will be a totally new thing for me – but I guess I will have to find the best app for the job, place all the transcoded clips in a separate folder (with the original names and a suffix) and then start re-linking… Manually, I guess.
But thme main thing remains – what tool to use?
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“But I do get moving artifacs, or rather a sense of “film”. I guess thus is because of the default frame rate.”
could be you haven’t rendered it yet.
remember to go to your sequnce’s settings, video tab, and set Motion to “Best”get the Nattress plugin, it. works in FCP.
nest your sequence, by dragging it from the browser into a new sequence with the same settings,
and apply the filter to the nestnick
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