Kell Smith
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2 hour program.
She’s not paying me for noise removal – the source is bad quality – so I don’t want to get extensive, just to improve matters.
It’s like a wet, flickering anthill, with looming mosquitoes Hours-long program so AE dynamic link would be a nightmare. -
Old thread, but just wanted to add a solution to it anyway.
I just had this and there was an empty track above my clip that was turned on. When it was turned off the problem disappeared. -
Yesssssss thank you
The drive where my project file is was full.
Just spent the last hour thinking the project was corrupt, deleting preview and cache, and reconforming.
Moved some files to another drive, and this solved it.
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Bump…anyone still out there?
Yes I was surprised as well at the upper field. But that’s what it says and there are a lot of VOBs (all from the same batch from the client), not just one file. Got the same reading as well on the demuxed m2vs.
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Exactly ☺ That’s specifically what I had in mind while saying ‘most.’ And so that’s what’s not really clear in the original post. Is this artistic or is it upscaled footage?
If someone is shooting 4×3 as an artistic thing it’s a different matter because they will shoot square pixels, frame for 4×3, and crop it. -
I dealt with this issue in SD, so haven’t worked with it in higher res footage. I assume you would maintain aspect ratio when upscaling with software, although I have no experience at all with hardware upscales that might handle it differently, so maybe someone can chime in on that.
The most common use of 4×3 would be old footage, either SD or being upscaled, not something current. -
It’s upper because 100% of the original footage was upper or progressive even though it was SD.
In the earlier thread I posted about this, Ann recommended upper, and another forum member recommended lower. Just for curiosity I decided to try Ann’s suggestion because I had never done that before and wanted to see what would happen. I did not even realize before this project that you could have an upper field SD DVD. The standard is to work in lower.
I had just finished another version of the project that involved transcoding the files to lower and had some issues (long story for another time, and in retrospect, that the field change was probably not the cause of the issues).You think it might be the fields causing this? It isn’t the standard “field flicker” where it flashes and jumps. It’s more of a very subtle sense where the motion has a weird, sped-up feel to it. Even though it’s not actually sped up. It’s hard to explain. It’s very subtle, probably no one would notice it but me.
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Glad you were able to work that out and didn’t have to put up with the headaches of workarounds. =)
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Oh, you know what? No, I’m not actually confusing the two, I’m well aware of how that works.
I may have misread the original post and was thinking of native 4×3 material, not simply cropped material.
Oh well. Maybe it will help someone in the future who has that question regarding a project with 4×3 material… -
I just went through this…..with an SD project but it should be similar. With your source clip selected in the bin, you can go to Clip>modify>interpret footage (or access it from the context menu). I have it mapped to shift-option-I. In there you can set your pixel aspect ratio. It will give the option of “use aspect ratio from file” which was 0.9091 in my case for the 4×3. It should automatically detect your aspect ratio (drag it into your timeline and see how it looks). If it doesn’t, if it’s wrong, you can conform it to the PAR of your choosing -1.00 for square pixels, etc.
Here are some resources to check out:
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/faking_it.htmlIf you have a bottle of aspirin handy, here’s another resource
https://eugenia.queru.com/2007/10/30/understanding-pixel-aspect-ratios/