Prores field setting

[Tom Wolsky]

For a sequence? Set it to none.

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”

[Declan Smith]

Thanks. And I presume also set it none when transcoding between say h.264 and prores ?

I think my confusion has come from the tool tip in mpeg streamclip.

Declan Smith
https://www.madpanic.tv
FCS3 / After Effects CS4 / Combustion / Canon 7D / Canon XL2

[Tom Wolsky]

“I presume also set it none when transcoding between say h.264 and prores”

Where does this occur in your workflow?

“I think my confusion has come from the tool tip in mpeg streamclip.”

What tool tip are you talking about?

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”

[Declan Smith]

This is at the start of my workflow. I have obviously made this mistake as I followed the tool tip, which at the time I thought was odd, but as a relative newcomer to Mac / ProRes, I took it at face value.

I have attached a screen shot of MPEG Streamclip, which I use to batch convert canon 7D h.264 files to prores. The Canon EOS 7D plugin for FCP has been released today and in that manual it mentions about setting the field order to none, which makes sense to me.

Declan Smith
https://www.madpanic.tv
FCS3 / After Effects CS4 / Combustion / Canon 7D / Canon XL2

[Tom Wolsky]

I see what you’re referring to. HD is upper field first. Yes, for your material it should be set to none, through in fact it will not make any difference as the material has no fields to start with.

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”

[Declan Smith]

Hi Tom

Unfortunately MPEG stream-clip only allows selection of Upper or Lower. I think the main problem I was facing was with the sequence settings, as any motion that I had introduced (such as zooms etc) has what looked like interlaced artifacts appearing, but when set to none, it was fine.

Thanks for you help on this.

Declan Smith
https://www.madpanic.tv
FCS3 / After Effects CS4 / Combustion / Canon 7D / Canon XL2