[Angie Piccirillo]

Terrence,

Thank you for your advice. I’m glad to know I’m not the only one who has seen this…

I also ran some tests and it seems to help… if I set my timeline in final cut pro to “Field Dominance: None” and lay my 29.97 1080i sequence to tape at 59.94i…. the fields seem to go away?

I did another test laying to this same deck at 29.97psf (there is no 29.97i setting on the HDW-1800) and it re-introduces the field errors…

Looking at your signature, I believe we have done some finishing at Alpha Dogs before in the past year. Is this the same alpha dogs near Victory? Our facility is in Glendale.

[Angie Piccirillo]

Yes, original footage is 24fps film. They have given us a 59.94i HDcam, so we did not do any pulldown. It was all already done before it got to me…

[Angie Piccirillo]

This is what I was thinking, I first thought that there may have been a problem with the tape. Someone suggested that it may have “non-standard” pulldown, so I had to tape sent out, and it appears to have no issues?

This is why I am thinking it might be something the kona is doing when I bring it in? or else my settings are wrong somewhere?

I’m bringing it into final cut at 1080i 29.97 8-bit uncompressed from a 1080i 59.94 HDCAM source. The deck is an HDW-1800 set to 1080i 59.94.

*I just checked if I could post the picture, but it’s from a movie that hasn’t been released yet, so I am unable to post it here unfortunately. It has also happened on other tapes we have had here, and ALL were 59.94 1080i source tapes.