[Daniel Haythorn]

Yup, this sounds familiar. I had a similar problem and I’m afraid to say I never really got to the bottom of it. It’s something to do with the GOP structures of HDV material, but beyond that it gets pretty complicated. Suffice to say that I’ve worked on another HDV-shot piece recently and the problem doesn’t seem to have recurred. In this instance I have captured using the Final Cut Pro HDV interface (therefore capturing HDV material), edited the film, and exported using the “Current Settings” export choice in FCP (ie, exporting to an HDV quicktime, and then converting to my final format / codec from there). It seemed to work fine. If you haven’t tried the above procedure, give that a go… if you have, good luck fixing the problem!

[Daniel Haythorn]

Hi there,

I don’t think faulty audio had anything to do with the problem – this was a music video, and there was no audio in the timeline other than one 48khz AIFF (ie, the song of the vid). The “sync slippage” wasn’t actual sync with picture; as Shan Sanford clarified, it was as if the ins and outs had been shifted (ie, as if I’d done a “roll edit” on various shots).

I think Shan Sanford’s diagnosis may be near to the problem – this was shot on HDV, and it’s the first time I’ve edited in this format… it’s also the first time I’ve had this rather peculiar problem!

Thanks again

Dan

[Daniel Haythorn]

Thanks, I’d like to try that but unfortunately I don’t have the tapes to hand. I will give it a go when I do. I think you may be right, though… when I captured it, it seemed to capture it as lots and lots of different clips; it’s possible that this was due to broken timecode and, consequently, some of the media start/end times are inconsistent or faulty… does this make sense?

[Daniel Haythorn]

Many thanks everyone – so much great advice, where do I begin?! You’re quite right of course – fundamentally it comes down to the quality of the source footage, and in my case I’ve got lucky with this job and have some great-looking footage. However, since posting my initial query my client has decided to pay up for a proper grading / colourising session, but I will watch with interest to see what kind of tools the colourist uses. I like the sound of Color that you mentioned…

Again, thanks for your advice. This forum never lets me down!

[Daniel Haythorn]

Thanks teach,

To be honest the deadline for the project I posted about this has passed and in the end I didn’t have a chance to look into Livetype properly (the deadline was a tight one!) so I’m not 100% satisfied that I did fix the fuzzy red graphics … I’ll definitely be looking into Livetype for future projects. I am intriuged that it links to the FCP timeline… that would certainly make life a lot easier, and anything’s got to beat the FCP title tool which is clunky at best.

I’ll no doubt have some queries along the way, so thanks for your offer of support!

Dan.

[Daniel Haythorn]

Okay, thanks…. I’ll try it!

[Daniel Haythorn]

I haven’t tried a different colour, but there’s a certain issue with branding (the client wants their colours) so it kind of needs to be blue.

In one instance the graphic has been created in Photoshop and then imported, and in other instances I’m building the graphic using the title tool in FCP. In all cases I’m getting that wierd strobing lines I talked about.

Thankyou!

[Daniel Haythorn]

Thanks for that…

Is the best way to do that to use the Desaturate filter, or the HSV adjust?

To be honest in both cases it hasn’t seemed to fix it…