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Video displaying lines when imported into FCP/ MAC.
Hi
I am editing something on FCP and need to import some footage recorded on a Sony handcam. However when I import the footage onto a MAC/ FCP it is displaying strange lines on sections of the video (mostly where movement is occuring). Yet when I view this same footage onboard the camera or on a PC it seems fine. At first I thought the files had become corrupted when I copied them over so I copied them over again and it is still displaying the same problem.
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Check the field order of the new clips and compare it to the sequence settings. If the field order is different, then use the shift fields filter to correct.
This is a very common topic so a search of this forum on fields or jitter should answer all the questions that the manual doesn’t.
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Hi Michael thanks for the reply.
I checked the field dominance of the effected clips (I think this is the same as field order?), and it was set to ‘none’, yet the clips which are fine were ‘Lower Even’ and were incidently filmed on a different video camera. I then tried out the shift fields filter to try and correct the problem (I changed it to -1 as I thought this would be the same as Lower Even) but this had little impact. I then tried +1 and None but again these made no difference.
I also used the search facility and was reading a thread that was suggesting that the problem was only visible through a MAC and Quicktime (which I thought would explain the reason why I was’t seeing it onboard the camera or my PC). However when I then played back my sequence on a CRT monitor I could still see the problem. BTW I think its worth adding that I’m shooting in PAL.
I may try burning a DVD and seeing if the problem is evident on it.
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