[Enrico Lappano]

Since the XH-A1s is HDV, should I be importing as HDV-ProRes 422 in FCP?

I also checked out the Pavtube MAC HD Converter site and noticed that you can set the frame size. The XH-A1s footage is 1440×1080. I was wondering if that would be a good way of capturing to up scale the size to match that to the 7D’s 1920×1080 in one step and still maintain the highest quality?

[Enrico Lappano]

The 7D clips are being captured as ProRes 1080p 30. Does that also apply to the HDV footage from the
XH-A1s?

[Enrico Lappano]

Thank you for your feedback. I’ve been specifically trying to figure out and solve some artifacting I’m noticing on my monitors. It appears at times during some clips during panning motion, as tiny flickers in certain areas. I’m not sure how to exactly diagnose it. Whether it’s mosquitoing, or due to my consumer monitor (32″ 1080P Sony Bravia on an HDMI feed), or what and how to fix it? This is on a ProRes 30p sequence.

Any help solving this would be really appreciated.

[Enrico Lappano]

Thank you very much! I appreciate all of the feedback and help solving this question.

[Enrico Lappano]

Thank you very much! I appreciate all of the feedback and help solving this question.

[Enrico Lappano]

When I set Video Playback at 1080i 59.94, my Sony monitor displays that it is an 1080i signal, and setting the FCP playback at 1080p 59.94 displays a 1080p signal on the monitor which also plays back normally. I’m not sure what this means regarding monitoring the 30p sequence?

Either way, they both seem to look the same, with a little video noise on some clips. Does this suggest I should deinterlace at all?

[Enrico Lappano]

Thanks for your reply Shane. I was asking because when I called Blackmagic’s tech support and asked about a matching 1080p 30 playback option for my ProRes sequence, they mentioned that it was a possible update plug in being considered. This is why I was checking with Matrox.

Does it make a difference then if the video playback setting is Blackmagic HD1080p 59.94?

[Enrico Lappano]

Today I converted the original HDV clip (from 1440×1080) to 1920×1080 (HDTV 1080i, 16:9) ProRes in Mpeg Streamclip and found the artifacting that Compressor did was gone. Exactly like the original HDV clip. I hope this solves the issue.

Now just to be sure, here’s a workflow question. Should I be upresing the HX-A1s HDV clips (from 1440×1080 to 1920×1080) during the edit in the 1920×1080 FCP ProRes sequence where they are presently scaled at 133%?

Or, for some reason, leave them the original size (converted to ProRes 422 at 1440×1080, 133% in the sequence) and export it the final edited sequence this way?

[Enrico Lappano]

Again, sorry for the rushed examples I showed yesterday. I was hoping I was being too picky and using poor examples. Here are two more screen shots of similar conversions. First one is the original HDV captured in FCP’s HDV Capture Preset (1440×1080). The second is that image converted into ProRes and upres’d to 1920×1080 with square pixel aspect (to match this ProRes 422 24P sequence resolution).

The artifacting looks most obvious round the pillar top spirals. Perhaps I’m still being too picky (thinking about this on a large screen). Not sure what is going on.

[Enrico Lappano]

Thanks for the visual.

Yes, that’s the way I have Compressor set up.

Just tried a very quick test.

Here is a grab from the original HDV.

Now one from the ProrRes 422:

Not a great example, but if you look closely at just the branch in the bottom middle, there are some lines on the 2) ProRes 422 branch in the middle, which there doesn’t seem to be on the 1) original HDV. What do you think?