Aaronjohnson
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I’ll check all of that out tonight when I go to the client’s office again. For what it’s worth, we never captured anything – it was given to us on a hard drive.
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Hey, thanks for everything thus far…
I’m positive there are no filters or effects. When I say it looks fine before we render, I mean, it looks fine in draft mode. It does have a red bar, however, exactly like it would if there were a filter or effect – but I assure you, we haven’t applied any filter or effects! I messed with pulldown to see if it had anything to do with it and it doesn’t seem to help, but to answer your question – no, no pulldown.
So essentially, in short… When you lay it down in the timeline, it looks fine, but it’s in draft mode and there is a red bar. When you render it, it takes an unusually long amount of time and then the glitching occurs. So, it would seem to me like there is some sort of conversion/filtering going on but I can’t for the life of me figure out where it’s happening. One odd thing… The source video says it’s 486×720 instead of the usual 480×720, but it also says it’s regular ol’ NTSC DVCPRO/25. I have a feeling this might have something to do with it, but i can’t seem to change the timeline to 486×720 for love nor money and I don’t even know if that would help.
Gasp.
-Aaron
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I’m not at the client’s office right now so I can’t check out the FCP version, but I think it’s the latest version. Same with QT. There are no filters or effect… The glitching occurs when dragging the video straight onto the timeline. I’ve compared the properties of the timeline to the properties of the video and EVERYTHING matches up. ENIGMA!
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Hi!
Checked the fields in timeline and in the clips. The source footage looks fine and dandy, even in FCP. It’s only in the timeline that we’re getting this glitching, which seems regular (2 bad frames followed by 3 good ones). Both the timeline and the footage are set to dvcpro ntsc, 29.97. lower field dominance. We even tried throwing it into iMovie and it looks fine there. Obviously there’s some timeline or system setting in FCP that’s blundering this, but I can’t find it!
Officially pulling out hair! Thanks for any further advice!
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We did not receive a telecine file from the lab, and the lab doesn’t seem to know what format they need the file in… All they keep saying is that it has to be in 24fps. When I reverse telecine it through final cut pro, it seems to remove too many frames and the footage moves rapidly in what we’ve termed the “key stone cops effect.”
If the lab didn’t give us a flex file or telecine file, does that mean we have to generate it ourselves? Is it not possible to create a 24fps EDL from a 29.97 timeline?