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PAL progressive project has interlaced dissolves??
Hi guys..
I’m on FCP6.0.2. My sequence settings are DVCPro50 PAL (anamorphic). My footage came in via P2 and is progressive.I notice that any dissolves that I add to the project are interlaced by default as are most video filters. Now, if I go to sequence settings and change the filed dominance from “Lower (even)” to None, it fixes the dissolves but my footage looks jaggedy (even though it’s shot progressive).
I want to keep the whole sequence progressive as I’m going to web at the end, hence don’t want interlace artifacts when compressing.
Any help appreciated.
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20 Replies
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How are you monitoring your footage? When does it look jaggy, when you are paused?
Jeremy
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I have both a 30″cinema display as well as a SONY interlaced monitor for broadcast out. I actually noticed the fields while stepping through the fade-up from black and then on some of the video filters that have motion in them.
As mentioned, if I change the sequence settings on field dominance to OFF, then those problems go away, but the progressive footage itself then has jagged lines when you play it… (similar look as to when you shoot interlaced then play back with only a single field).
By the way, in the advanced area of seq. settings I have it set to PROGRESSIVE.Any ideas?
Steve
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When you had the field dominance set to lower, the footage looked okay, but the dissolves were interlaced, right?
In the advanced settings, did you have it set to progressive when you captured. It shouldn’t, it should be interlaced. I know it’s counter-intuitive, but it should be interlaced. Try changing that back to interlace and see what happens.
Jeremy
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Hi Jeremy,
Actually the settings inside ADVANCED were on INTERLACED when I imported the footage via P2 transfer (file based). I then changed it later to PROGRESSIVE, hence why I mentioned it seperately.I’m surprised others have not come across this issue.
Steve
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Leave it on interlaced.
There’s something weird here and it’s hard to diagnose without seeing the footage. ANy chance you can post a second or two of it for me to take a look at?
Jeremy
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Jeremy…
I might be able to get something up on my http://FTP... do you want the finished QT with dissolves (to see the issue) or the original footage and then you re-create it?Steve
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two or 3 seconds of the original raw footage would be grand.
Jeremy
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Jeremy… can you email me off the list so I can send you the ftp info . It’s midnight here now, so I’ll do it in the morning.
Thanks for your help… steve997 at gmail dot com -
Email sent.
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I read your interesting post and I have the same problem.
So what was the verdict? How do you avoid these jagged edges that appear when using None? Is setting the sequence Field Dominance to None actually really bad?
I have been doing it for a couple of years now on recommendation from an FCP expert here in Stockholm, but recently I noticed that a film I did a new version of had jagged edges that were not in the original (before I started changing Field Dominance). I am not sure he knew what he was talking about.
I do not have perfect monitors, but I have checked this on both a TV in PAL and a second computer monitor with original pixel size, in both DV and HDV format.
The original problem was of course that I got interlaced dissolves and effects in a timeline where the footage was shot progressive. Is there any other way to get progressive dissolves? Sort of like Avids Film dissolve?
I hope you figured out a solution for this.
/Bjorn
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