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Square pixels problem…..weird!
System(s):
OS X 10.4.9
FCP 5.1.4
Color 1.0.1
Xsan 1.4.1v81
Aja Kona 3
Panasonic AJ-HD1400 decksOffline / Online workflow: Capture DVCproHD material from tape (not P2) at offline RT using multiple stations to capture to XSAN. Then online / uprezz using DVCProHD 1080i 29.97 (Aja Kona 3) using standard media manager process. Use 2 stations to uprezz by duplicating project and doing half tapes on one station, half on the other. Then choose one project as the master project and reconnect the tapes captured on the other station to the master project.
The problem: The tapes that have to be reconnected in the master project come out with square pixels flagged when you look at their format information. The pixels should be HD (1280×1080). In FCP this doesn’t seem to matter – it comes out looking fine. However, when we export an XML and take it into Color, the clips with square pixels come out squished, with geometry settings applied. We can fix this by resetting the geometry. However, when we render these projects out and bring them back into FCP the square pixel clips render the interlacing wrong – they kind of bake both fields into one, creating a strange ‘ghosting’ effect on footage with a lot of motion in it.
There is a workaround fix – we can change the pixel aspect in FCP before making the XML. This fixes the problem. However in a show that contains over a thousand clips this is laborious – each clip has to be done individually. And if we do two or three shows a week…..that is a lot of wasted time.
Has anyone experienced this? Got a good solution? How can we get Apple to fix their broken software?
PW
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