Very strange motion lines, look!

[David Roth weiss]

[Daniel Grant] “Could it be a problem with interlacing or something similar?”

Could be, but you left out any information regarding your sequence settings. What does Field Dominance say in Sequence>>Settings?

Also, if you set your canvas size to 100 you may see the interlace disappear.

David Roth Weiss
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David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles
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[Russell Lasson]

It certainly looks like an interlacing issue. I’ve seen similar issues when scaling interlaced footage. Double check your footage resolution and make sure the sequence you’re editing in matches. Your footage is HD, but you’re editing in an SD timeline? Is that right?

-Russ

Russell Lasson
Colorist/Digital Cinema Specialist
Color Mill
Salt Lake City, UT
http://www.colormill.net

[Phil Balsdon]

440 x 1080?
Should that be 1440 x 1080? Which is some kind of HD or HDV size.

In which case why are your sequences DV PAL which is an SD 720 x 576 size.

Cinematographer, Steadicam Operator, Final Cut Pro Post Production.
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[Rafael Amador]

Yeah; I’m afraid you haven’t shot p25, but i50.
rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com

[Daniel Grant]

Ah yes, sorry, that should be 1440x 1080

Thanks for the help guys, im not sure what it was exactly, but changing field dominance to odds or evens, instead of none, seemed to help.

Rafael, I tried changing to a sequence preset that was designed for i50, but that did not seem to help on its own :S

But anyway, thank you folks!

[Rafael Amador]

[Daniel Grant] “Rafael, I tried changing to a sequence preset that was designed for i50, but that did not seem to help on its own :S”
Hi Daniel,
Is not the sequence preset what you have to change.
Make sure that the stuff shows as “Upper-first” on the Browser; then try on an Upper-first sequence.
rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com

[David Roth weiss]

[Daniel Grant] “im not sure what it was exactly, but changing field dominance to odds or evens, instead of none, seemed to help.”

Daniel,

This is not a guessing game, it’s science. I responded to your initial question first by asking you a very specific question, which you still have never answered. It would have clarified this completely.

So, please go to Sequence>>Settings and look at Field Dominance and tell me what it says.

For the record, all interlaced HD is Upper Field dominant.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles
https://www.drwfilms.com

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[Daniel Grant]

Sorry David, I thought I had responded properly, but I guess I wasn’t very clear.

I looked at Field Dominance and it simply said ‘None’.

I experimented by changing it to Upper, and this seemed to get rid of the lines.

Thanks for the on-going support.

Dan

[David Roth weiss]

[Daniel Grant] “I looked at Field Dominance and it simply said ‘None’.

I experimented by changing it to Upper, and this seemed to get rid of the lines.”

Bingo!!! As I suspected all along Daniel. This is because, as I mentioned earlier, all interlaced HD is Upper field dominant. So, now you know the science, and that putting interlaced material on a progressive or “none” timeline looks like doggie doo.

BTW, a little know fact is that, putting progressive material on an interlaced timeline actually looks just fine most of the time. That’s a well-kept secret, so commit it to memory.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles
https://www.drwfilms.com

POST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™

A forum host of Creative COW’s Business & Marketing and Apple Final Cut Pro forums. Formerly host of the Apple Final Cut Basics, Indie Film & Documentary, and Film History & Appreciations forums.

[Cris Cazor]

Hi guys, I’ve been having the same issues with a canon vixia, when i started using it last year, everything was normal, i could log and transfer from FCP, now i can’t so i had to get Voltaic for encoding the MTS to AppleProRes, but then i started having the same lines you’re are showing, don’t know what i’ve done wrong, if it’s the camera or something on the workflow i’m missing.

Can anybody tell me what’s going on with fcp 7.0.3, and do u know if fcpx will accept all the codec without rendering????

BTW finally i get rid of those lines using the de-interlace filter on (Flicker filter minimal or medium) and runs great and also using Smooth cam is a great solution when u have shaky image and the lines.

THX!