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OT: DV in uncompressed
Sorry to post this here, but I figured someone here could help.
I have always nudged my DV footage that is sitting in an uncompressed timeline so that it is “clear”. But I have never seen a technical explanation.
I just started a new show that has just switched from Avid to FCP and they were about to layoff a master and I noticed that the DV footage in the show hadn’t been adjusted. Now they are freaking out. I admit it is a pain to go back through the show, find the DV clips and move them down a pixel. Pasting attributes is out of the question, since it will remove any key framed motion effects. Any ideas on a better workflow? Will applying a filter to flip the fields produce the same effect?
On the same note, when we went from the offline (we cut in DV) to the online (Uncompressed 8 bit) The graphics, which are 8 bit files, came in at a -1 position, so they needed to be nudged back up. Anyway to avoid this in the offline to online conversion?
And lastly, The DV footage in the show is anamorphic, and to be honest, I am only noticing the bump in the sharpness of the widescreen edge. Is this because the 33% distortion is “crushing” the fields so that the placement is irrelevant?
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Precompose the sequence, then take it DOWN one pixel (i.e., +1; this will take care of both your footage and the gfx at once).
In the future, cut on a DV timeline, then Media Manage using the “Recompress” option (or recap via SDI). This will turn the media into the correct frame size, codec and placement
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