What’s up with this clip?

[Elijah Lynn]

Thanks much David for you thoughts and helpful assistance with this project.

As we discussed earlier on the phone, I was completely wrong about the green screen, there was none. From my limited experience in this profession it looked like a green screen cloth hanging right behind them, just keyed out white. I had no clue as to why they would do that (silly in hindsight) and it only made sense to me as I somehow saw green in the blond hair and we have a green screen hanging in the other room. I think maybe it was the viewing angle of this cheaper 28″ monitor I have or my lack of sleep for the past 7-10 days fighting the learning curve of this project.

I haven’t much experience but your hunch about stripping half the fields out with a poor deinterlacing method just seems to make sense to me. I will try to grab a sample of the original footage but it is good to know that the green screen can be eliminated as part of the mystery. Thinking about your response, maybe they just captured it with the wrong settings or encoded it right after.

Actually now that I think more about it, the folder directories and clips all seem to be batch. Could it have been the wrong capture settings?

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I did receive a reply from Graeme on the first shorter clip:

In quicktime player I see severe chroma interpolation errors on the first clip you sent. FCP does it right, Quicktime does it wrong on HDV.