[Michele Stocco]

WOW, after all these years!
Opening the project I see that there are some error in the expressions. Before taking a proper look at it, do you have any idea about what that could be?

Michele Stocco
Editor/Post-production technician

[Michele Stocco]

Hey Jeremy, thanks a lot for your help!
I’ve tried your suggestion, Compressor, setting input and output as progressive… But the exported file is always upper fields… and I have to change the field order on the browser…

Michele Stocco
Editor/Post-production technician

[Michele Stocco]

Yes they are. Source is 720p, ProRes HQ, down-sized into a PAL IMX 625 timeline, none fields.

The .MXF it creates has the typical interlaced artifacts, but when I import the created file into the FCP, changing the field order directly into the browser, the interlaced artifacts vanishes.
The broadcaster told me that he can’t to do the same with AVID. Can anyone confirm it to me? To me it sounds that he doesn’t know/want to change it.

Anyway I have the feeling that the problem could be the compression itself (IMX 625), because even if I’m doing a .MOV I get upper fields. Any suggestion?

Michele Stocco
Editor/Post-production technician

[Michele Stocco]

Hi there, I’m trying to export a .MXF file from FCP 7, with IMX 625 compression. I’ve succeded to do it with the Sony XDCAM plugin without any problem, but I can’t set the fields right.
The timeline is progressive/none fields (that’s what the broadcaster is asking, and the orginal footage is progressive) but the .MXF that creates is always upper fields, no matter what I do.
Any suggestion? I know that if I import the .MXF in FCP I can change the fields settings in the browser, resolving the interlacing problem, but the broadcasters use AVID and they ask specifically for progressive .MXF
Thanks!

Michele Stocco
Editor/Post-production technician

[Michele Stocco]

Hi Joshua, that was my doubt…
Thanks for your fast answer.

Michele Stocco
Editor/Post-production technician

[Michele Stocco]

Hi Ivan, do you have news? just that i’m gonna buy the same monitor and i have a Decklink Studio with a Blackmagic HDMI adapter and i’d like to know if i’m doing the right choice.
Thanks a lot
Michele

Michele Stocco
Editor/Post-production technician

[Michele Stocco]

ehmmm, i had a difficult time as well to understand what i wrote. sometimes i have this kind of off/on in my brain…
anyway here there is one example: https://www.megaupload.com/?d=S4TZHBUC
here i just used one piece of the film, and i repeated it with a loop expression one each side.
what i want is that the external film frame would be just one piece, that turns around the corner (maybe blending the film frame layer) and that moves itself as a loop.
for this reason i thought to do an adjustement layer with a mask for each corner and apply a blend effect to the adjustement layer. but i canpt really achive a good result.
i hope now it would be clearer…
any suggestion?

Michele Stocco
Editor/Post-production technician

[Michele Stocco]

i’ve found it, for eveyone who’s interested:
https://www.viewpoint.tv/catalog/Decks/S-PVW-2800/PVW-2800%20Manual%20RS.pdf

Michele Stocco
Editor/Post-production technician

[Michele Stocco]

thanks guys!
i know all the problems i can get with a too high bitrate.
about this method of change the codec of the timeline, exporting a self-contained movie and drag it in compressor i’ll give it a try now. i’ve already listened to this kind of operation, instead of going directly to compressor, make a self contained movie and then drag it into compressor. what’s the difference between going directly from FCP to Compressor and this method? i mean, going directly does it affect the final quality of the .m2v?
and if i let DVD studio pro working the self-contained movie? i can imagine that since this software has been thought as a DVD authoring one, and not as a comrpessor one, the work that it does is kinda “dirty”. but since my monitor is a crappy low resolution one (i hope my boss will buy a new one soon…) i can’t really see the difference.

Michele Stocco
Editor/Post-production technician

[Michele Stocco]

thanks Dave! i already tried it but i was mistaking the way to change the fields (i was clicking ctrl-click on the clip in the browser and not on the fields of the single clip… quite stupid moreover that i knew that…).
i ask to you (or to who can help me 🙂 one more thing. i need this for a DVD, and i saw that if i do the export starting from the DV timeline and making a m2v, when i burn it i see that the quality of the AE files is quite low anyway (kinda broken) when watching it with a computer monitor, but it’s ok when watching it with a tube television.
i duplicated the timeline and made it with animation codec, and the quality of the AE files is definitively better on the computer monitor (anyway i can’t see really any difference in the television one), but i can’t really understand what happens to my footage. i see that the contrast is stronger in the export made from the animation timeline, maybe a little bit too dark… but anyway in my case it looks better.
i can’t understand if i am loosing something somewhere. changing the compression of the timeline in which way affects exactly my original footage? if i’m using a better compression (i.e. animation or uncompressed) does it affect the original footage or it just leaves it with the same quality? i wouldn’t change the compression of the whole timeline, but i can see that in this way the quality of the AE files is much better.

Michele Stocco
Editor/Post-production technician