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As well as the three way CC, try Lyric’s free Shadow Highlight filter. It is very good at bringing up shadow detail and holding down blown highlights.
https://www.lyric.com/fcp-plugins/index.htm#shadow
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Unfortunately, many chose progressive to solve their field order problem, but in doing so you are throwing away resolution. If you want a progressive look, that is another matter.
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The horizontal lines are most likely to be a field order problem, not anything to do with 1440 v 1920. FCP can handle the different pixel ratios internally. It is just a matter of having the distort values correct in the motion tab.
In the end you are using Compressor to create a standard def mpeg. Search this forum for field order and DVDSP posts. There must be at least three or four a week dealing with field order on DVD via Compressor.
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The Nattress film effects plugins have jitter and weave. Earthquake is a shot transition
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Yes Adam, in Pal only DV is lower field. Standard def broadcast and DVD is interlaced. If you are preparing for the web, then a deinterlaced quicktime is best.
There are various ways to deinterlace. Some here like the Compressor deinterlacing. I use Nattress filters to deinterlace, although I only work in broadcast at the moment so rarely have need to deinterlace a whole program, just the odd shot for effect.
Glad to have helped and sorted the issue. If you avoid DV then life is easy in PAL.
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Plenty of chances for field dominance to be screwed up with your workflow. Firstly I presume you shot HDV even though you said “- Filmed the footage in HD on a Sony Z7 (DV-Pal)” and also because you said you captured it into FCP as HD. If that is true, then the field dominance should be set to upper for the captured files.
If you then edited those HDV files in a DV sequence, the shift fields filter would need to be on all the clips as DV is lower filed as you have identified. Then, when you exported the QT file, what codec did you choose? If it was DV then it should be lower. Any other codec should have been upper in PAL.
Have you at any stage seen the sequence or you QT file on an external interlace monitor? If not, then you might have the fields problem baked in before making your mpeg file for DVDSP.
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I presume you are making the QT file to take to a facility that does the digi beta for you. I would recommend calling them. If they have a Kona card or other real time hardware down converter, then they may prefer to run the HD file through their down converter to digi beta.
I experimented with a Sony HDCam as downconverter hardware with dropping a 1080 sequence into an SD timeline and rendering. The render took forever and was softer than the hardware. I haven’t compared Compressor to the sequence render but I am sold on hardware becasue it is quicker and looks better in my experience.
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Snap! Jeremy do you sleep?
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“Michael you’re always welcome in the forum”
Thanks Walter. I have been posting here for years as Michael G but I seem to have been re registered after a change of email and the real names policy.
I am just as stubborn as some of the forum stalwarts so I don’t plan on sulking if someone wants to have a go. They better do their homework though. I pioneered digital location recording and post sound in 1984 for film & video and have mixed nearly 800 broadcast docos so I feel more than qualified to speak my mind.
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If your sequence is correctly set to NTSC 16:9 then it is 720 x 486 anamorphic. The exported quicktime file should be “use current settings” if it is going to be transferred to digibeta.