Don Greening
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[gnomebard] “i figured somebody must have seen it.”
Yup, I saw it. Made me laugh out loud, but then I thought…..”I’ve done that, too.” 🙂
– Don
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Matt from LaCie cruises these forums. He probably read your first post and had someone from LaCie contact you or even phoned you himself. That’s just the kind of guy he is.
– Don
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[N.Adam.Smith] “Or are you talking about true 30P material and if so, do you still ingest via NTSC DV presets?
“The short answer is yes.
Here’s the long answer:
Okay. I did a little research this morning and have a reading recommendation for those that need to edit 24p and 30p within FCP. Follow the workpath that the experts in the thread talk about and you’ll become proficient as well.
The times I have edited 30p I’ve never had to worry about setting sequence field dominance to “none” because I’ve never had to render any effects, filters or graphics. If any renders, etc, need to be done then it’s recommended that you set the sequence field order settings to “none” to keep inserted graphics, renders, etc. from being written as interlaced.
Anyway, read on:
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/8/949009
– Don
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Hi Jonathan,
Welcome to the COW. What model of handycam do you have and how old is it? I’ve been using a little Sony DCR-HC30 as a deck for a couple of years now have never seen the types of glitches you’re describing. It sounds almost like a head alignment issue when your Sony is playing back the tapes or the heads need cleaning. At this point it doesn’t sound like a FCP issue.
It also could be a problem with the FW connection at the camera. Try plugging/unplugging the cable to check for a bad connection.
For what it’s worth I use my little Sony to capture footage from an XL2, GL2 and a Sony PD170 all the time without a problem.
– Don
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[videovideo] “The black looks squishy/pixley (not fully pixilated) ***almost*** like there is a small mosaic filter on the image, which can be seen especially in the black.”
Most likely what you’re seeing isn’t the result of an interlacing effect but more like shooting with picture gain dialed up in the camera. Of course, without being able to see what you’re looking at this is just a guess.
[videovideo] “The reason for progressive is that it retains a filmic look and is easy to play on a computer, is that correct?”
Correct. I wouldn’t use the term “easier”, but computer screens are progressive so 30p will look better on those than on an interlaced CRT television. The reverse is true for interlaced footage in that it will look better on a CRT television than it will on a computer screen. One way to tell for sure if your source footage is progressive is to watch it on a CRT monitor/television. Pause the playback. If the picture is solid and not twittering then it’s progressive. If you can see the paused frame sort of vibrating then you’ve got 2 interlaced fields.
When you’re watching your completed DVD on your MBP make sure that the DVD player screen resolution is set to play your movie at “actual size.” The player will default to playing at full screen resolution, which would make any DV NTSC movie look pixelated and awful. Remember that the screen resolution of DV NTSC is 720×480. If you have a 17″ MBP your screen resolution would be 1680×1050 and would make your movie look very pixelated indeed.
[videovideo] “The person who shot this said he shot it 30p– progressive. He noted to not capture with regular dv ntsc settings but to change capture settings from interlaced to progressive. He also noted to change the QT settings in the sequence to progressive. “
Your shooter gave you poor information, at least as far as editing with FCP is concerned. Whether the footage is progressive or interlaced you still use the same DV NTSC 48K codec. When I edit 30p I just edit as normal and don’t worry about checking for field dominance because there IS no one field that is dominant over the other. It’s just one complete picture for each frame of video.
When you go to encode for DVD THEN you can worry about setting the field dominance to “none”. Use compressor to encode @ 2pass VBR Best, then use DVDSP to build the DVD. Stay away from iDVD because you don’t have nearly the same control over the encoding and building process as you do with Compressor and DVDSP.
Hope this helps.
– Don
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[videovideo] “his is the field dom to none, orig interrlaced capture ntsc, qt settoings interlaced”
Like Tom said, if your source footage is interlaced then you need to de-interlace and render the effect before exporting your timeline, otherwise Tom’s workflow suggestion won’t work.
[videovideo] “would having the mpeg on my external hd affect tthis?”
No.
The link below may help to clarify your interlace questions regarding lower/upper fields as opposed to setting to “none” in the FCP timeline.
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/8/955605
– Don
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[walter biscardi] “Absolutely no reason for this step.”
The reason I suggested the step is because I’ve always been told that encode times would be substantially reduced if the HD timeline was converted to an SD timeline first. However, since I’m still working in SD and haven’t had the opportunity to do a test myself I’ll obvioussly defer to your recommendation, Walter.
– Don
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[atrivedi] “We need to burn some footage shot in HD onto SD DVD.”
If I’m reading your post correctly, you want to make a standard def. DVD using HD footage. If that’s the case, then try copying and pasting your HD timeline into an SD timeline, using a codec like DVCPro 50 or uncompressed 8 bit SD. Render the timeline and then export a self-contained or reference Quicktime movie.
Start Compressor, drag and drop your QT file into the batch window, adjust your encode settings to taste then hit the submit button. The above workflow is extremely over-simplified because you never stated what version of FCP and Compressor you have. I can be more detailed if you were to provide that info, along with your system details, what kind and size of external hard drive you’ve got, etc.
It’s also wise to convert your .aif audio to the DVD industry standard AC3 file format, the main reasons being that AC3 audio takes up much less room on the DVD, leaviing more room for video, and the high bit rates of .aif audio will cause some consumer DVD players to choke.
– Don
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[Tom Matthies] “Will 4.5 run on an Intel machine?”
FCP 4.5 is PowerPC only. Having said that, however, it may be possible to run it on an Intel machine using Rosetta. Until someone posts some first hand knowledge concerning this, I’d at least try it and see what happens. If it doesn’t fly, then you’ll have to upgrade. But if it does work then you’ve saved some money now, but will have to upgrade in the near future.
Rosetta with Intel will be somewhat slower than having FCP 4.5 running natively on a G5.
– Don
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Use the exact same setting for 30p that you normally use for 60i, which in North America would be a DV NTSC 48K timeline with your DVX100a footage.
– Don