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Re: Field Issues
I’ve just made a programme using FCPHD, I shot on the Sony Z1 using DVCAM mode and then took all the footage in over firewire. I edited at home on my G5 and then brought it into work for client approval. I edited with field dominance set to none as the final DVD was to be used with a laptop. However, I want to make a fielded version that can be viewed on a regular interlaced TV. I’m in the UK and am used to working with Avid and Media 100 which are upper field first, due to the PAL system. I know that DV is lower field first, but at work we have a Cinewave card (which I have little experience of), and it will be used to play the edit out to tape. So my question is, do I interpret all my original footage as lower field in FCP and change my timeline settings appropriately, or do I put them as upper field first to work with the Cinewave, or will the Cinewave work in either. Also there are a few treated shots form After Effects, do I need to rerender those or can I simply reinterpret those from having no fields.
Thanks in advance.
Otis F
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If the cinewave you’re working on has the real time option enabled then you can just copy your timeline onto a cinewave codec sequence without altering a thing. The cinewave sorts out the fields for you. If not, cinewave comes with a lower to upper field filter that you can whack onto the footage.
(BTW just because you have the field dominance set to none doesn’t mean that there are no fields… Your footage will still probably be lower field first.)
-Simmie
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