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Paste Attribute field order bug? Looking for explanation.
Hello, I couldn’t find any issue like this on the forums. I’m looking for a little explanation if anyone else has encountered this. I’m working on a project in FCP 6.0.6 that has a lot of text over backgrounds. I have a slight scale increase animation on all the text files so I copied one and pasted the scale animation attributes to all. Well after I rendered them some of them showed up like their field dominance was shifted from lower to upper and I get an interlaced look. The text files are .tif’s (maybe that’s my problem?). The weird part is that I can fix the problem by either putting a shift fields filter on it or moving the animation keyframes. For the shift fields fix it alternates between -1, +1, or just applying it then deleting it for whatever yields the correct outcome. Anybody else encounter this and/or have a solution? It’s pretty confusing for me. I would appreciate any suggestions.
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Hi Jonathan,
You shouldn\\\’t have any problems using tif files for graphic/text overlays. It sounds like there could be a mismatch between the field dominance setting of your sequence and some of your imported tif files. As a test, go into the properties of one of the problem graphics and see if changing the field dominance has any effect (make sure to disable any of your field order swapping filters first). It is possible that this problem was there from the get go, it just wasn\’t obvious because there was no motion on your tif files.Matt Lyon
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Hi Matt, thanks for replying. I checked the properties and it said there was no field dominance on the TIF files. So I guess it defaults to progressive. Unfortunately (or I guess fortunately?) all of the files have been fixed so I can’t really troubleshoot anymore because I don’t know how to make the problem happen exactly or else I would try and change the field order of the TIF files. It just happens to a random number of files when I paste attributes. In the future, instead of importing them as progressive is there a way in Photoshop or in FCP’s import settings to choose Upper or Lower field dominance on text and image files that you know of?
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Yes there is actually! When you import a graphic, FCP will set its “frame rate” and field dominance to match whatever is selected as the default sequence setting (where the checkmark is in the “Sequence Presets” Tab under “Audio/Video Settings…”
I make it a habit of always having my default Sequence Preset match the timeline I’m currently working with, so I’ll be sure that imported graphics and (to a lesser extent) audio files behave in a predictable way.
Hope this helps,
Matt Lyon
Editor
Toronto
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