[Paul Campbell]

Hi, Rafa. Should I use Compressor to apply the deinterlacing, or does the FCP filter do just as good a job? Thanks,

Paul

[Paul Campbell]

Hi, David. I’ve been exporting my FCP sequence to Compressor and using the high-quality two-pass 90-minute settings to create my assets for DVDSP. It’s the .m2v asset that you’re referring to, right?

(You pretty much threw me for a loop when you talked about “driving the mpeg2 transcoding 🙁

[Paul Campbell]

You just wrote that the field dominance of the imported, interlaced footage is “none”. That means “progressive”. So I’m a little confused. Unless you mean those are the comp specs, not the footage specs.

Hi, Steve. Sorry, I totally messed that up. I meant to type “Lower” under field dominance. All of those specs I listed came from the clip properties from within FCP. I realize this is an AE forum, but since these graphics were most likely spawned from AE, I figured this was the appropriate place to ask.

[Paul Campbell]

They don’t want a Beta SP or Digibeta Master?

I know it seems odd, but they do accept a DVD. I know there are some DVD byproducts that
will affect the aired product, but they’ll accept it. Anyway, thanks.

[Paul Campbell]

Hi, Wojtek. I’m inputting 29.97 with different combinations, but I’m still getting the same results. The one setting that seems to work best so far is to select “Deinterlace Video” in Streamclip. This makes the jaggies go away, but dupes every 4th and 5th frame. It still looks a lot better to watch, so perhaps I’ll just go with this. Thanks. I’m still messing with it, however.

[Paul Campbell]

Hi, Dave. I’m trying to figure that out right now, but can’t seem to get you an answer on this. How can I get there? Is it as simple as just ripping the video in Streamclip with default settings and then dropping that into my FCP timeline?

Sorry for the late reply. Happy New Year.

[Paul Campbell]

Hi, Rafa! Is it 2009 in Laos yet??? Happy New Year.

I haven’t used Streamclip enough to answer that one off the top of my head. I need to be sitting in front of it to answer your question, which I’ll do later.

Paul

[Paul Campbell]

Sorry for the late reply…had to get some sleep. So Streamclip will show the pulldown artifacts, but I can watch the DVD on my tv just fine. Is that just because tv’s are interlaced, so the artifacts don’t show? (Sorry for asking such simple questions here…trying to learn)

[Paul Campbell]

Thanks, Simon. I get what you’re saying, but just for the purposes of understanding this fully, would your explanation to my particular problem be more accurately described as:

FRAME 1: AA
FRAME 2: BB
FRAME 3: CC
FRAME 4: CD
FRAME 5: DC ?

I’m not trying to poo-poo your breakdown here, but rather just trying to correlate my scenario with
your math. (Since my 4th and 5th frames are the ones that seem all diced up)

Regardless of math, how can I best get around this? As I mentioned before, the duplicate-frame method from within Streamclip is much more pleasing to the eye, but is this the best way to rip a video from a DVD? And since I’m on the subject, why is this happening inside Streamclip? (See previous post) All I’m doing is stepping through a video frame by frame in Streamclip…why is every 4th and 5th frame sliced up?

Cheers, indeed. Thanks, again.

[Paul Campbell]

Addendum to my initial post…

I just discovered that this 4th-and-5th-frame thing happens before FCP even joins the party. I just stepped through a video in Streamclip frame by frame and found the same thing happening…the “same thing” being every 4th and 5th frame having the interlacey squigglies.

Ok, suddenly this is no longer an FCP-worthy question, but rather an MPEG Streamclip question. However, there isn’t a Streamclip forum on the Cow, so can anyone help?

Ever grateful,

Paul