[Nils Fridén]

The code tag doesen’t seem to work so I’ll post an image instead:

Hit replace all.

Save, import to FCP and you are done.

[Nils Fridén]

The code tag doesen’t seem to work so I’ll post an image instead:

Hit replace all.

Save, import to FCP and you are done.

[Nils Fridén]

Can’t get it to work in recent versions of FCP. XML is way more reliable…
I do it this way:
1. Select your timeline. Export to XML. (Latest version.)

2. Open XML in Text Edit.

3. Use Search and Replace to search for:

replace with:

Replace all.

4. Save

5. Import XML back to FCP.

Done.

If you are dealing with PAL or certain flavors of HD you need to search for upper instead of lower.

[Nils Fridén]

There is a way of changing multiple items in the item properties dialog. But its more of a bug than a feature, there is no visual indication of what’s going on. It’s kind of tricky and usually takes me 5-10 tries to get right.

Carefully click exactly on the text (Upper/lower/none). Press and hold the shift key and carefully move the mouse in the same row. Click exactly on the text on the last item in the selection. Right click but dont move the mouse a single nanometer while doing it. Select the new value. If you got it all right multiple items will get the new value. But dont expect it to work the first time.

There is some crucial step that takes me a couple of tries to randomly get right. Still haven figured out what it is.

[Nils Fridén]

That’s not my understanding. Very similiar, yes. Identical, no. Since there is no temporal shift each set of fields holds 50% of the spatial resoultion in a progressive frame. Deinterlacing means throwing one set of fields away and replacing that with interpolated data. You are basically throwing half the frame away. (Field blending excluded.)

Or simply take a look in the monitor. After the media manager the frames looks like crap. By crap I mean like frames missing 50% of their vertical resolution. There is no way that will get past me or anyone else interested in quality output.

[Nils Fridén]

I have a timeline with mixed codecs and formats. IMX, DVCProHD, ProRes, Uncompressed, Animation etc. All media is progressive. Some of the media is incorrectly tagged as interlaced. I want to conform my timeline to ProResHQ using the Media manager. (Recompress). (My experience is that the recompression will also deinterlace my media if its not correctly tagged.)

So ultimately I want all my clips, in ProResHQ, with handles in a new progressive ProRes sequence where all items has their field dominance set to none. I dont want any deinterlacing introduced in this process. (All my media is already progressive.)

Anything that achieves this will solve my problem.

[Nils Fridén]

Thats a working solution. I’ve ended up doing that a few times. I was just hoping there was some way not involving xml and a text editor to handle a seemingly simple task.

[Nils Fridén]

The clips are already in a finished edit delivered to me. Selecting all the media in the Browser and changing the field dominance setting does not affect the clips already on the timeline. They stay the same no matter what I select in the browser. I want to affect the setting for items already on the timeline. The same way the item properties dialog works but for more than one item at a time.

[Nils Fridén]

I need to change the clips on the timeline. Changing the field dominance in the browser does not seem to affect the clips on the timeline. They stay incorrectly set. (I work in a progressive sequence, with progressive sources, but about 60% the clips are marked as interlaced. They are not interlaced, just logged that way.) It easy to fix one by one using item properties, but I need to change this on about 1500 clips.

[Nils Fridén]

Thanks for the warning. I almost thought I was out of trouble after the migration.

I’m running 8 x 750GB Samung drives in RAID 5 (SAMSUNG HD753LJ, Rev. 1AA01108)

I tested the volume with 256k, 128k and 64k when setting up. After testing i settled for 128k and did a complete reformat in 128k. Worked great for about two weeks until last thursday when suddenly all file transfers or collect using FCP/Shake would freeze the finder or app after about 500MB or so. I havent changed or updated anything on my system during this period.

RocketRaid 3522 firmware: v1.2.13.25