ProRes in fcp7 converted to H264 via Compressor magically changes edit points

[Johnny Smith]

You are a genius by the way, thought I’d casually mention that.

[Shane Ross]

INTERLACED!! Nick is the real genius here.

Deinterlace the footage. Not sure what built in plugins FCP has for that, but Nattress had a good one called SMART DEINTERLACER. There were many many plugins that did this, but unless you got them when FCP 7 was active, you can’t get them.

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[Johnny Smith]

Are you saying Compressor can’t do it? What I don’t understand is this: I’ve edited that interlaced footage before and it looked great on Vimeo. Now when I cut it with other not interlaced footage there’s the combing effect at cut point. Is it supposed to be like that? My only solution is to deinterlace that footage before I cut it with prores files that came from 35mm footage and ProRes that came from Red Dragon? This interlaced footage is really old these ProRes files came from 5Dmk2.

[Nick Meyers]

[Johnny Smith] “I’ve edited that interlaced footage before and it looked great on Vimeo”

you were probably combining it with progressive footage, and the time line had been set to progressive, or Field Dominance = None in your sequence settings,

you could do that yourself, it’s a quick and dirty approach to de-interlacing.
does it blend the fields? i can’t remember.

you could de-interlace in compressor, yes.
i think that would be better than fields = none in FCP, which is sort of the least sophisticated approach.
doing it in compressor means you can’t really preview it though, so i don’t tend to do that.

Natress Smart De-Interlaceis the best within-FCP de-interlace, but it costs so maybe not worth it for your one-off.
FCP does have a de-interlace, so give that a go.
also try the de-flicker filet set to max. that actually BLENDS the fields, which gives you maximum resolution, BUT keeps both fields, so you’d have to trim the offending frame.
at least you’d be able to see it directly in FCP

[Johnny Smith] “I’ve edited that interlaced footage before and it looked great on Vimeo”

well if you think it looked great, then you could probably just set field order to none, and be done with it
but test it first, see if it looks ok.
maybe your footage is1920x1080 and on Vimeo it was 1280×720, so the drop in resolution was less noticeable?

your other solution of course is to trim that frame.

cheers,
nick

[Johnny Smith]

That worked! Thanks so much!