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Progressive footage being captured as interlaced
On Saturday we shot in 30p mode with our XL2 and yesterday I captured to FCP using the following preset: DV NTSC Anamorphic set to progressive instead of interlaced. When I check clip properties it says the field order is set to lower (even) instead of reading “none.”
Any idea why the progressive footage is being captured as interlaced? The captured footage is definitely interlaced because it looks like crap in a DV NTSC progressive sequence and looks fine in an interlaced sequence. Normally it wouldn’t be a huge issue but the reason I shot progressive widescreen is because we also used our XDCAM EX on the same shoot and the setting used on that camera was HQ 1080p 30.
Any thoughts are appreciated
– Don
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Not sure that this is 100% technically correct – but if you just change the field dominance of your clips in your bin to None then your footage should then be read correctly as Progressive.
(right click the field dominance tab in the browser – and you can do it on multiple clips at one time)
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Thanks Mark. Your suggestion did the trick. I should’ve known that I could change the clip’s field order to “none” in the browser. It’s been a long day.
– Don
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My pleasure – glad I could help.
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I think this behavior on capture is normal for DV. It is an interlaced recording, even though it is a progressive image.
I have the same issue using the Sony-450 camera shooting 30p widescreen. Capture DV anamorphic and afterward set all the clips in the browswer to “None” in the field dominance column. -
[Jeff Coleman] “I think this behavior on capture is normal for DV. It is an interlaced recording”
I’m starting to believe that this is the case. When doing capture tests with small clips it didn’t seem to matter if I set the capture preset to use interlaced or progressive, the clips were all saying ‘interlaced’ in the clip properties.
– Don
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