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[Rafael Amador]

Hi tahir,
Make sure that you are editing in an i50 sequence.
FCPX shouldn’t be deinterlacing your stuff unless you drop it in a Progresive sequence.
rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com

[Tahir Ramzan]

Hi Rafael

Thanks for your email. Problem is FCP X does not seem to give an option to edit in 50i. If you can give me an email address i will send you the screen shot of my options which seem to only offer me the following- in 1080i i get option of 25i or 29.97i. In PAL SD i only get option of 25i.

Thanks

Tahir

Tahir Ramzan

[Andy Neil]

If you click on the viewer settings button (upper right), is the viewer set to “show both fields”? Also, computer displays are progressive by nature. It’s possible and likely that FCPX is treating your footage fine, but since you can’t view the signal externally on an interlaced monitor, it may be impossible to tell at this point.

Andy

https://www.timesavertutorials.com

[Tahir Ramzan]

Hi Andy

Thanks for the info.. but the other problem is that when i import the footage from my Sony HVR Z1E, the footage captured is seriously down in quality and sharpness and a lack of colour even thou when imported the movie files in the “original media” are huge. This has been a constant case even with FCE Express, and Adobe Premier and i movie..Its not the editing that is annoying me. So basically imported footage is low in quality but big in file size. I can only put this down to me having a mac. This is my second Mac Book Pro..great at everything but this.
Like i have said. When i imported footage into a PC laptop using cheap Pinnacle software the imported footage was as per tape. 100% QUALITY.
This is the only problem i cannot seem to solve.

Tahir Ramzan

[Rafael Amador]

[Tahir Ramzan] “Problem is FCP X does not seem to give an option to edit in 50i. If you can give me an email address i will send you the screen shot of my options which seem to only offer me the following- in 1080i i get option of 25i or 29.97i. In PAL SD i only get option of 25i.”
Well, that’s part of the manufacturers confusing terminology.

i25 and i50 is the same depending if you are talking about “frames” or “pictures”

[Tahir Ramzan] ” when i import the footage from my Sony HVR Z1E, the footage captured is seriously down in quality and sharpness and a lack of colour even thou when imported the movie files in the “original media” are huge. This has been a constant case even with FCE Express, and Adobe Premier and i movie.”
Nor FCE, neither iMovie works with DV or HDV.
They have their own proprietary codec.

The picture of your camera (SD or HD) are 25Mbps.
When in SD they are plain “DV”, and when HD are HDV (MPG-2 LGOP/25Mbps/CBR).
So open then in QT Player and have a look to the Info window.

Probably you will ind that your HD files are AIC (Apple Intermediate Codec).
That’s the format used by FCE and iMovie for HD and makes BIGGER files.
In that case you are not working with the original files, but transcoded on capture.

In SD FCE manage the original DV stuff , BUT iMovie re-wrap the stuff as “.dv” files. Thats a crappy version of “DV” with audio crunched to only 32Khz (instead of the original 48Khz), and the disadvantage of losing the TC. The data rate remains 25Mbps in.

No idea how works PP.
[Tahir Ramzan] ” When i imported footage into a PC laptop using cheap Pinnacle software the imported footage was as per tape. 100% QUALITY.”
Seems that Pinacle can really works with the original
rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com

[Tahir Ramzan]

Hi Rafael

Thanks for that info. So as a simple question as you are obviously in the “know how”. What do you suggest i do when importing in FCP X. And why do i get the quality loss when i look at the captured DV media in the Original Media folder.
Should i use a different software to capture.?

I have looked into a few other forums and seems that i am not the only person having this trouble with DV capture which again seemed so simple to do in Pinnacle.

Thanks

Tahir

Tahir Ramzan

[Rafael Amador]

[Tahir Ramzan] “Thanks for that info. So as a simple question as you are obviously in the “know how”. What do you suggest i do when importing in FCP X. And why do i get the quality loss when i look at the captured DV media in the Original Media folder.
Should i use a different software to capture.?”
Tahir,
I haven’t tried to capture with FCPX but if the media is captured by FW shouldn’t be no quality lose.
I have and DV desk and I will make a test.
I’ll let you know tomorrow (here is time to go to sleep) what i find.
rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com

[Tahir Ramzan]

Hi Rafael
How did you get on then?
Tahir

Tahir Ramzan

[Rafael Amador]

Hi Tahir,
Very sorry for my slow answer.
I’ve captured some DV with FCPX and I think that the only problem is that FCPX viewer thoesn’ shows the interlacing combing.
I’ve captures few clips and open a New Project with “Set automatically based on first video clip”.
I’ve put the clips in the time-line and exported a QT movie with current settings.
The clips shows the interlacing in QT.7 and in FCP is also recognized as lower first.
rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com