Aivaras Seduika
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This has been bugging me for years, and finally figured out the problem!
For any video format with an alpha channel (ani, dnhxd, mpng, etc etc) FCP seems to assume the clip is interlaced with a field dominance.
So when you drop the clip into your clip browser, scroll the window to the right till you see field dominance, and set it to ‘none’ (if you’re working in a progressive sequence). Then drop it into the sequence. Voila, super sharpness!
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Once it’s in the sequence, setting the field dominance column in the clip browser will have no effect on the clip’s instance already in the sequence. -
Cool, will have a look for that option, thanks!
The clips show perfect edges when they’re being played in everything other than FCP (quicktime&vlc on mac, quicktime&vlc&media player on our windows machines..)
In FCP, in the file viewer window and the sequence viewer, and our full screen desktop display all show the pixelated edges.
The field order is set to none for these clips in the clip browser. They’re progressive so have no fields though, so this shouldn’t make a difference.It’s so confusing. There’s no reason for this to be happening!
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Hey dudes,
Jeremy, we’re working with FCP6, does 6 have this?No progress on the issue. Tried a bunch of different sequence codecs, and 2 different source files (one animation, one avid dnxhd). All the playback and render settings are for highest visual quality.
Tried both RGB and YUV settings,
Both of these look perfect in quicktime player, but screw up in FCP.Anything else left to try?
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Thanks for your reply, but that didn’t fix it. It doesn’t seem to be related to colour bit depth, but then again I’m not an expert in fcp.
Any other ideas?
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Walter, thanks very much for your advice – it worked! It’s still not very flexible as a device due to the need for duplicate pre-comps (one to use as a luma matte, the other sitting over the top as a diffuse layer), but it works well enough for what I need.
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Yep, mocha is really amazing, it’s pretty simple once you get familiar with the UI 🙂
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Alex, you have 2 choices.
1 – re-wrap the AVCHD h264 files from the camera card with ClipWrap, which will make Final Cut recognise them. Re-wrapping does not transcode, so the data itself remains unchanged.
Then you can edit these clips in FCP, but editing h264 in FCP is machine-intensive, it will get sluggish and need lots of rendering.
2 – transcode everything into an intermediate format such as ProRes. Pro-res files are lightly compressed so it’s nice editing with them, but they take up about 10 times more space than the original clips. -
The AE tracker is pretty poor for shots with large motion.
Do you have CS5?
If you do, have a go with Mocha (comes with AE CS5 iirc) – it’s a planar tracker so instead of tracking a point, it tracks an area inside a mask. It can track perspective changes as well as translation and rotation and scale – it renders the AE tracker pretty useless for post work.This guy Mattias has an amazing set of tutorials for tracking and stabilising, including one where you can (to an extent) motion stabilise footage without having to crop, by recovering areas outside the frame from other frames in the video.
(go to tutorials, it’s on page2)
https://www.mamoworld.com/He is using a tool he developed called MochaImport which you can donate and download from aescripts.com
It’s a much more time-intensive process but it’s incredibly accurate.
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Formatting the drive is the last step in the process, so you create the RAID array first, then once the array is up – you format it like you would normally with whatever file system you want 🙂
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Yeah, it’s nightmare – things would be so much easier if apple played nice with adobe!
You cannot get an iWhatever to recignise the H264 inside a flash player, it will play it outside of the player.
What I do for client signoff previews is export an iWhatever friendly H264 .mp4 or .m4v. I tell my flash player the URL to this file (various ways of doing this, either directly in the player’s source code, or flash vars, or XML).
I then give the client a URL to the page containing the flash player – for fast pc/mac viewing, and another link beneath it with a URL direct to the video for iPhone/ipad etc.If you follow the direct link on an iPhone/pad whatever, it will open and start streaming.
For encoding, I use Handbrake because it has settings which also make the video Nokia-friendly too. Adobe Media Encoder encoded files don’t play on nokias for some reason (spent hours trying to get it to work!).