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video distortion
Hi
Im have been cutting a documentary for college on FCP on my Powerbook G4 Laptop. I was also using a 500 G external hard drive. When it came to color correcting the film I had to consolidate the project to the internal hard drive so that i could hook up a deck which was connected to a monitor. I was surprised to find that when the picture came up it had a white dashed line going across the top. A friend told me that this just happens with video but i find this hard to believe. It is making my film look terrible and it continues in every shot. What is this white line and how can i get rid of it.
I shot my film on a Sony Z1 on HD but then down converted to DV CAm.Please help!
Thanks.
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Are there dots on the far left an right that move quickly and other dots that change at one second intervals?
If so, the white dashed line is VITC (vertical interval time code) stored in some of the (usually) invisible lines near the top of the video signal.
If it is VITC, it was probably introduced during the down convert to DVCam. Depends though on how the down convert was done.
If you can afford to re-do the down convert go for it.
However, if you are close to deadline, and the down convert will take time from getting your color correction right, my advise would be to crop the white lines out.
Best,
Tom
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