Josh Cockfield
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Did you find a solution. Just had exact same problem.
I couldn’t be bothered trouble shooting it so I just transcoded a previously exported H.264 version to DVD codec but would be interested to know it you worked out why it was happening.
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Thanks for the solution! I already wasted half a day thanks to that bug. Updated and now export is all good.
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Probably shouldn’t bump such and old thread but I couldn’t resist adding that 3 years later across the other side of the world, at one of the highest regarded Australian film schools I have pretty much the same situation. Editing in crappy codec because school mandates it to save space on their server. I constantly have major issues with VFX round tripping due to their rigid workflows. But hey, you do what you have to do. Equipment is crap but teaching is great!
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Hi Mark,
Thanks for such a detailed response. I was actually after SD with a 16:9 ratio as my final product. Sorry, I think my question was confusing. Anyway I just saw a rough cut and I think I can live without the vision. The sound guy is just too far into frame. Again though, thanks for the tip which will no doubt come in handy at some stage.
Cheers,
Josh
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Ah, my ignorance is showing up all too well. I read a website that explained what field dominance (order) is and it answered all my questions. For anyone else who is as inexperienced as me and is having problems with lines across their exported video I found this website very useful and easy to understand. https://neuron2.net/LVG/interlacing.html
Now all I need is broadcast monitor. Ha. Maybe next financial year. Until then I’ll just burn DVDs to check final product.
So I assume that the Final Cut Canvas window compensates for the computer monitor’s progressive scan when it plays the interlaced HDV footage? Do computer DVD player programs also do some kind of de-interlacing on the fly?
If I want to create video files for playback on a computer is there a preferred way of deinterlacing? I read that setting field dominance to “none” inside FCP is not very good way of doing it.
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I think I found the problem. In my settings, under the “field dominance” section, the default setting for 1080i HDV was “upper” (Don’t know why this is the case). I changed it to “none” and this improved the quality of the file when played in quicktime. Still curious as to why the problem was only seen when played by quicktime and not when authored to DVD or viewed in Final Cut. Probably makes sense to someone who understands interlacing better than me (I don’t even know what field dominance is).
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Ha. Just had that same problem last night. Don’t know why it happened.I tried all the same things as you. In the end I think I closed all the remaining windows individually (browser, viewer etc) and then reopened the project. That seemed to work.