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Stock Video Footage Looks Banded
I purchased some stock video footage from pond5.com of an underwater light shot.
The video is 1920×1080, 80 fps, Photo-JPEG compression with a 5.3 Data Rate. I have placed it in a FCP Easy Set Up DVCPRO HD-1080i60 Sequence.
The problem is that when I output with a composited image on top of it (a swimmer) the video looks terrible! It is severally banded, all most like it was a 2 bit color file. I have tried exporting the stock video footage out in an Animation codec and then bringing it back in to FCP but I still have the same problem.
All the other video in my Sequence looks fine. Is this a problem with placing a masked video on top of this video or is it a compression issue?
Any help would be great! I am out of my depth here (ha ha)
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3 Replies
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Hi Stephan,
I guess that the clips are Progressive.
Have a look to the Field Order in the Browser.
Is possible that FC is reading it as Upper first.
Another thing you should do something about is the Time Base.
You are dropping 80fps footage in a i60 sequence.
This is a No-No in FC.
Another issue may be your sequence codec (DVCProHD). may be Proress would give you better results.
Cheers,
Rafael -
Hello Rafael,
Thanks for the advice. It makes a lot of sense. After I posted my question, I started to wonder if bring the footage into Compressor would be an option. That way I wouldn’t have to change my Sequence settings. How would I adjust Compressor for the Fields and the FPS?
Stephan
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Hi stephan,
you better use CinemaTools to conform your Stock clips to 29,97.
Better and faster than compressor. You don’t need to render.
Rafael
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