Thank you Jeremy Garchow!!

[Mark Maness]

Anything? or HDV?

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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions
http://www.schazamproductions.com
https://blogs.creativecow.net/waynecarey

[Jeremy Garchow]

Anything.

[Jeremy Garchow]

Awesome.

Glad you are up and running, Ben.

[Rafael Amador]

Hi Jeremy,
Have you notice that the “shift-fields’ filter is not anymore necessary when editing HD (upper) in an SD (lower) sequence?
With the SD footage, if we do not apply the shift-fields, all the lines will falls in the wrong place.
This won’t happens with the HD footage.
One SD line takes one pixel height in a SD screen (1/240 in a NTSC sequence).
One HD line takes less than one pixel height in an SD screen (1/540 in a NTSC sequence.
The HD information is never fully off-set as it happens with the SD.
I made few tests cutting directly EX-1 footage (1080, upper) in a PAL DV sequence.
The picture looks great when I leave or erase the filter.

BTW Ben,
Had you in mid to make a Progressive DVD when you started?
If not, you better try to find out what was wrong with your workflow. If my video editor would bring me a progressive movie without being requested to do so I think we would have some words:-)

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PMBP 17″Core2Duo 4GbRAM-AJA ioHD
JVC DTV-17″
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..and always a big mess on top of the table.

[Ben Ged low]

hi Rafael,

No progressive. Straight 1080i through to MPEG2 for the DVD. Being editor, director and producer on this one I can’t get upset with my editor without serious psychological repercussions.

I think my problem was the jpg stills … somehow FCP and Compressor were reading them wrong when set to Field Dominance ‘Upper’. Setting ‘none’ fixed the situation. Thanks to Jeremy.

All the best,

Ben

[Rafael Amador]

[Ben Ged Low] “Being editor, director and producer on this one I can’t get upset with my editor without serious psychological repercussions.”
Hi Ben,
I just wonted to joke a bit. I’m also the one who makes everything, so mistakes are only mine.
Just wanted to say that if it was a problem with interlacing, somewhere must be a mistake.

[Ben Ged Low] “my problem was the jpg stills … somehow FCP and Compressor were reading them wrong when set to Field Dominance ‘Upper’. Setting ‘none’ fixed the situation. Thanks to Jeremy. “
So now you know that when you import .jpgs from still cameras, you have ALWAYS to set the field-order to NONE, because STILL ARE PROGRESSIVE.
And always make sure that FC is interpreting properly the setting of what you import. Even if is something right exported from the very FC.

Mac OX 10.5.2-FC 6.02-QT 7.4.1
G5 2x2Gh 4GbRAM-BlackMagic Extreme
PMBP 17″Core2Duo 4GbRAM-AJA ioHD
JVC DTV-17″
SONY EX-1 . SONY PD170
..and always a big mess on top of the table.

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Rafael Amador] “Have you notice that the “shift-fields’ filter is not anymore necessary when editing HD (upper) in an SD (lower) sequence? “

First of all, who’s Jeremy Garchov? 🙂

No, as most all the footage I work with in HD is progressive or psf at least. We don’t do much work in 1080i and no work with HDV. If you read that section in the article again, it explains what I was seeing. I copy/pasted for you convenience:

“Interlacing changes
Something has changed in how FCP handles interlacing.

As it is now, if you’re working in a progressive NTSC timeline, you have to interpret every single file that is in your timeline, or that you want to put in your timeline, as having a field dominance of None.

This bit me hard the other day. I didn’t have time to stop to figure it out when the client was there, so we dealt with a soft picture and kept editing. After the 14 hour client edit session was over, I had to go back and manually change every instance of a clip to a field dominance of None.

These were clips that were captured off of tape and existing CG motion graphics clips. Some of the motion graphics clips had been rendered progressive, which was fine, but some were captured from tape and all video was captured from tape or given to me as 8 bit, 10 bit, or DV NTSC files. All of these clips should have had a field dominance of lower for output, but that’s not how it worked.

With FCP 5.1.4 and below, if you put a lower field first clip into a progressive timeline, it played and rendered just fine. Things can work out fine in FCP 6 as long as I remember, every time I put a clip into a progressive timeline, I have to make sure that I set the field dominance to None.”

Jeremy

[Rafael Amador]

Hi Jeremy GarchoW,
Sorry, I ow you a big “W” (Here we use it quite little. Almost only for the tasty liquor made in Scotland and the operative system of the PC’s)

Mac OX 10.5.2-FC 6.02-QT 7.4.1
G5 2x2Gh 4GbRAM-BlackMagic Extreme
PMBP 17″Core2Duo 4GbRAM-AJA ioHD
JVC DTV-17″
SONY EX-1 . SONY PD170
..and always a big mess on top of the table.

[Jeremy Garchow]

Windows and whiskey usually go hand in hand.