[John Desay]

Thanks Tom,

I’ll give it a try and see does it work

[John Desay]

Thanks Shane,

you’ve solved my riddle…and made me want to go out and buy the Sony EX3!!!

Cheers for your time,

john.

[John Desay]

Thanks for the reply Todd.I was thinking of eventually investing in a 35mm dof adaptor so the swing away of thee Red Rock was something i didn’t consider so thanks for the advice….

[John Desay]

Thanks for the reply Hunter,think i might go with your suggestion as a more stable connection would make the difference i think…cheers.

[John Desay]

Thanks for the reply john.

The camera actually does have a RGB component output but here’s another question-if it wasn’t a case of cable length,which output would be better quality for monitoring on a 1080p TV-HDMI of Component?

[John Desay]

Thanks again for the reply Rafael.

I’ll just run thru my whole export to see if you can figure out where my problem lies…

My short was recorded at 1080i.My sequence settings in FCP for my project are…
Pixel Aspect Ratio HD(1440×1080)
Field Dominance Upper(Odd)
Editing Timebase 25
Compressor HDV 1080i

I then export the sequence as a QuickTime file using Current Settings so as not to change anything.
I then burn the QuickTime file to DVD using Toast.
When i watch on my TV(Sony Bravia LCD) i still see scan lines on most of the shots.
Am i correct in saying that because my project is interlaced(1080i)and my TV is also interlaced i shouldn’t see any scan lines?

Thanks again,

john.

[John Desay]

Thanks for the reply Rafael.

I dont necessarily want the short to look progressive but when i export the movie as a quicktime and then burn to disc using Toast,it always shows the scan lines on my TV so this is what i want to get rid of-i thought once your footage was going to be shown on TV it had to be de interlaced first?

Thanks again

john.

[John Desay]

HDV 1080i PAL

[John Desay]

Thanks for the reply so quick daniel.I wasn’t aware that if you change the current settings in QuickTime when exporting from FCP that you do in actual fact create a self contained file.If i export from QuickTime using the current setting(which are 1080i50),will i still get maximum quality when encoded as opposed to something like PHOTO-JPEG which i’ve heard is near flawless-and is it true it will encode faster as it is just working off the reference file?
Also how do you know when Compressor has crashed when its still encoding in the History?

Thanks again for the reply…

john.