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P2 footage play back problems
Hello,
I’ve searched the forum but haven’t found an answer to my problem so I apologize if this has been answered previously.
My HD P2 footage is playing back blurry and choppy in final cut pro and in quicktime when the camera pans left or right. It looks fine when the shot is still.
The footage looks good in the camera when I view it in the lcd viewfinder and it looks good when I run a bnc out to a monitor although it’s SD at that point.
So I’m thinking there is something wrong when I import it to FCP or my mac isn’t good enough. Its a mac book pro dual 2.16 with 2gb of ram.
Any ideas would be appreciated.
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#2 Blurry Playback
Shane’s Stock Answer #2: Blurry playback
ONLY JUDGE THE QUALITY OF YOUR MATERIAL ON AN EXTERNAL BROADCAST MONITOR, OR AT LEAST A TV.
The Canvas shows you what happens after the codec you are working with has been applied. The Viewer shows you the material in its native format. Once you drop the footage from the Viewer into the timeline, it inherits the attributes of the sequence. If it is a DV sequence, the footage will render out as DV.
1. Disable overlays on the Canvas.
2. Make sure you’ve rendered everything (no green bars at the top of the timeline).
Video playback requires large amounts of data and many computations. In order to maintain frame rate and be viewable at a normal size, only about one-fourth of the DV data is used in displaying the movie to the screen. However, the DV footage is still at full quality, and is best viewed thru a TV or broadcast monitor routed thru your camera or deck.
Make sure you have the proper sequence settings, that they match your clip settings. You should be seeing NO render colors when you add footage. Not green, not orange…nada.
Shane
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Shane,
I read stock answer #2 before posting my question and unfortunately it hasn’t solved my problem. I’m working with HD footage not DV. I’m watching the video playback on an external LCD computer monitor. It doesn’t look like the unrendered blur. I guess a better description would be a strobe like effect where the detail of what I’m shooting is lost and blurs a bit when I pan the camera. Any other ideas?
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Well, that was written a long time ago, but pertains to all formats.
Did you shoot 24pN? Is your footage 23.98? Are you expecting video smooth images with film rate footage? 24pn is stroby and blurry…that is the nature of 24fps.
Shane
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Yes I understand the look of 24p footage but this is 1080i at 60i which should be really smooth. Its playing choppy in quicktime player as well as FCP. Again it looks good in the camera but not once it gets on my computer.
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What sort of drive did you import this media onto? Firewire? USB? SATA?
Shane
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I’ve put it on a firewire drive and also my desktop and I have the same problem.
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could this be an issue with the checkbox in preferences,
“remove advanced pulldown and duplicate frames”?I have had this box become checked (after an instal or upgrade) and began to experience the same types of things you described during movement within the video.
check this setting, if that box is checked, uncheck it and re-import your footage.
Let us know if that helps.
Todd Reid
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I tried your advice and I’m still having the issue. Can you tell me what easy setup you use in FCP for AVC Intra footage at 1080i? It only gives me the option for DVC Pro or XDcam. I wonder if that has any effect on my blurry-jittery play back.
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