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Old footage is Pixelating
Hi All,
I’m going through some old footage in FCP and a lot of it is pixelated (very square) anywhere there are hard edges.
The footage was shot using JVC HDV 100U. The specs are: DV/DVC PRO NTSC, 720X480, 29.97, pixel aspect NTSC-CCIR 601, field dominance Lower (Even)
The sequence settings are the same, and I’ve tried playing with pixel aspect (square etc.) but nothing seems to change this.
Does anyone have any idea what might be causing this and what I might do to fix it? Is there a possibility that I can fix this on export?
I’m running FCP 7.0.2 on an old IMac OSX 10.5.8, 2.4GHz, 4GB DDR2 SDRAM
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2 Replies
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The two problems are DV codec which is blocky. The second is the JVC HDV cameras were noted as being quite poor cameras in DV mode.
If your sequence settings match the clip then there isn’t a lot you can do about the blockiness. Chroma smoothing can help with blooming reds. If the old footage had been shot HDV, then you could reload in HDV and the images would be vastly better. If yo8u are doing any grading then drop the footage into an Uncompressed 10 bit or ProRes 422 timeline to render.
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Thanks Michael. Apparently I’m not getting notified of comments to my queries on my account. I appreciate the help.
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