[Captain Mench]

Two things:

1) How are you exporting it? FILE – EXPORT – QT MOVIE – CURRENT SETTINGS?? That will be the highest quality (given that your sequence settings are the same as your import settings)

2) What are you looking at when you see the exported file? Quicktime? External monitor from tape?

If you are in QT make sure you QT is set to HIGH QUALITY… here’s how:

With the file open…

HIT COMMAND-J
Select VIDEO TRACK
Select VISUAL SETTINGS from the tabs
Select HIGH QUALITY in the lower right corner

But other than that — I’d want to make sure I was viewing my final product on an external monitor just to be sure.

CaptM

[Captain Mench]

Yes, captured incorrectly.

Mike

[Captain Mench]

https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/review_chv_morph_.html

Check out the review of that… and maybe get it.

I use SHAKE for morphs. Here’s a tutorial on that from creative cow:

https://library.creativecow.net/articles/mench_michael/morph.php

Good luck,

Mike

[Captain Mench]

AH!!

Yuk… then yes… might have been recorded with the wrong field first.

Not sure where else you can do this, but if you have SHAKE you can reverse the fields. I honestly don’t know if there is a simple way to do it with FCP or not. Hopefully someone here will help!!

Good luck,

CaptM

[Captain Mench]

All (ALL!!) DV is shot at 29.97. That said, there are three (4) ways to do it.

1) Shoot 29.97 progressive or fully interlaced
2) Shoot 24 progressive but add a simple cadence (3:2) before it goes to tape making it 29.97
3) Shoot 24 progressive but add an ADVANCED cadence (2:3:3:2) before it goes to tape making it 29.97.

1 – no problem. Shot 29.97 edit 29.97.

2 – sometimes called FILM LOOK. Just like a standard telecine this cadence gives a natural film look to playback. Hard to edit because it jacks with the cadence. You can tell if it was shot with simple cadence by framing thru… 3 progressive to 2 interlaced (combined). IF you wish to remove this cadence use CINEMA TOOLS to REVERSE TELECINE the captured footage.

3 – NOT that pleasing to the eye when played back. Done so you can easily remove the cadence either on capture or later. You will notice this by the 4 progressive to 1 combined frame. Easy to make this 24 fps (23.98) after the fact… just use TOOLS menu REMOVE ADVANCED PULLDOWN.

Hope that makes sense.

Mike

[Captain Mench]

Just open up your system drive on your desktop. That will give you the root directory. (not sure ROOT is the correct word, but — definitely NOT your user account.)

Mike

[Captain Mench]

File – Export – QTConversion

I use the Broadband HIGH standard for better quality. Then, hit the OPTIONS button and then SIZE. Change it in there. Back out and render.

Good luck,

CaptM

[Captain Mench]

ROOT/Library/Application Support/FCP… something like that.

Make sure you are in the library from your ROOT system drive and not from your user account.

Good luck,

CaptM

[Captain Mench]

Was it QUICKVIEW?? Option-8?

CaptM

[Captain Mench]

Here’s another thought too:

https://www.pinelakefilms.com/uprez.html

Mike