Why, Why, Why?

[Steve Eisen]

Why did you not tell us what type of footage you are using? Yes this your first post, and we want to help but we can’t until you give us more information.

How are you viewing your footage?

Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
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[Walter Biscardi]

What type of footage are you working with?

What type of timeline are you editing in?

How are you sending your video to the external monitor and what monitor are you using? (I.e. a Kona card connected to a panasonic TV)

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[Zane Barker]

Just thought a more discriptive subject line would help you. Saying why why why says nothing of what your problem is.

[David Roth weiss]

And furthermore, are you rendering, and is “Full” checked in the render drop-down menu?

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[Mark Brown]

Wow! I’m sorry for my “rookie-ness”

I’ll try not to let it happen again…

The footage I’m editing was a .mov file. I’m viewing my footage through both the viewer and also have tried exporting to quicktime but it still is “interlacy”.

I’m not using an external monitor, and I wasn’t aware of different types of timelines, so I’m using the default.

BUT! I have seen that “full” was not checked in the render drop down menu, so I’m going to try that.

Again, I apologize for my ignorance on the subject…that’s why I came to you cats for help.

Thanks for everything.

-MB

[Shane Ross]

.Mov doesn’t tell us anything…sorry. .Mov can contain any of a dozen CODECS. Get INFO on a file and see what it says. Or scroll to the right in the Browser and see what it says for codec.

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[Kai Cheong]

If the format of the footage is interlaced [eg. DV] – then it will appear as interlaced on a computer monitor because computer monitors are progressive.

A proper way of monitoring would be through an external TV/broadcast monitor, which will display the interlacing correctly. The poor man’s way would be to connect a MiniDV camera via Firewire to your Mac and preview your video through it.

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[Mark Brown]

Okay, so the checking “full” in the render drop down didn’t work, so I’ve attempted to find the codec…

Would it be H.264?

I’m sorry, but I just don’t understand why my footage would look great until an effect is added (a dissolve). And the monitoring is on my iMac, but I can’t see why it would look interlaced only during the dissolve…it’s not a monitor problem.

Please help if you can, I’m just trying to learn.

Thanks!

-MB

[Shane Ross]

H.264 is not an editing codec. You need to convert it to a format you see listed in the easy setups. Like prores or dv/ NTSC.

Shane

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[Walter Biscardi]

[Mark Brown] “Okay, so the checking “full” in the render drop down didn’t work, so I’ve attempted to find the codec…

Would it be H.264? “

That would be a huge issue. H.264 is a delivery codec not an editing codec.

[Mark Brown] “I’m sorry, but I just don’t understand why my footage would look great until an effect is added (a dissolve). And the monitoring is on my iMac, but I can’t see why it would look interlaced only during the dissolve…it’s not a monitor problem. “

You cannot monitor your video project on your computer screen. The Canvas display is a proxy image that does not display full resolution video because FCP expect you to have a proper external TV monitor connected to your system. So yes, it’s a monitor and probably codec problem.

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