[Paul Escandon]

What are your settings in Audio Video Settings > A/V Devices? Sounds like something is set wrong… Also, have you tried trashing the prefs – just in case? It wouldn’t hurt.

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Paul Escandon
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Apple Certified Trainer – Final Cut Pro
Oremus Productions
http://www.oremusproductions.com
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Adjunct Professor of Media
John Paul the Great Catholic University

[Paul Escandon]

I vote for waste of time.

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Paul Escandon
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Oremus Productions
http://www.oremusproductions.com
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Adjunct Professor of Media
John Paul the Great Catholic University

[Paul Escandon]

Hmm… I know you said you tried to de-interlace and still have the problem… have you tried the flicker free filter? Try playing with the settings on that, possibly with and without the de-interlace filter still applied. See if that gives you any sort of improvement.

Is it possible to send a screen shot? Or is the problem only visible when viewing in real time?

Also, are you noticing the problem on a broadcast output? Or just on your monitor when working in Final Cut? Sometimes the computer screen doesn’t give you the best indication of what is actually being displayed if your attended output is broadcast. Also, make sure that your canvas is at 100%. Sometimes scaling it down gives you strange visual effects that aren’t actually there in the video.

Let me know if any of this helps.

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Paul Escandon
Producer | Director | Editor
Apple Certified Trainer – Final Cut Pro
Oremus Productions
http://www.oremusproductions.com
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Adjunct Professor of Media
John Paul the Great Catholic University

[Paul Escandon]

Yes, you are correct about the XML workflow. It does simply either apply a double flop to the file in the browser or gives you the option to rotate 180 degrees. It’s definitely a really good solution, but one that doesn’t address the Quicktime files themselves (which is probably good enough for almost anyone working in Final Cut Pro).

I still would like it if someone can perfect the batch rotating option to the Quicktime files themselves… just so another option exists out there. Maybe I’ll try to learn applescript better.

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Paul Escandon
Producer | Director | Editor
Apple Certified Trainer – Final Cut Pro
Oremus Productions
http://www.oremusproductions.com
– –
Adjunct Professor of Media
John Paul the Great Catholic University

[Paul Escandon]

I really don’t know what to tell you other than to maybe bill a little more for the job so that you can buy the DV Toolkit plugin that includes Digitranslator so that you can open up OMFs. That is the post workflow that we have here at the Outdoor Channel and I don’t know of any other reliable and robust way of doing it. Plus, if you plan on doing more of this type of work, I think that plugin will be almost a requirement for you.

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Paul Escandon
Producer | Director | Editor
Apple Certified Trainer – Final Cut Pro
Oremus Productions
http://www.oremusproductions.com
– –
Adjunct Professor of Media
John Paul the Great Catholic University

[Paul Escandon]

I use MPEG Streamclip to rip from DVD directly to a quicktime DV file. It’s free – just google it.

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Paul Escandon
Producer | Director | Editor
Apple Certified Trainer – Final Cut Pro
Oremus Productions
http://www.oremusproductions.com
– –
Adjunct Professor of Media
John Paul the Great Catholic University

[Paul Escandon]

Try changing the motion filtering quality to BEST. This sometimes can dramatically increase the quality of positional changes or scaling in Final Cut when things are rendered.

To do this go to Sequence Settings > Video Processing tab > Motion Filtering Quality > BEST.

I think you need to make sure that you render out the pieces that have motion changes involved… at least give it a try. If it’s still not looking right and it’s not making you render (because it’s “full”) then force it to render items on your timeline that are “full”.

Oh and fyi it’s best to always set the motion filtering to best in Final Cut, but not until right before you’re about to master or output. This is because the rendering goes slower… so I usually work with it set to Normal, and then change it to BEST at the end. Sometimes I forget though… :]

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Paul Escandon
Producer | Director | Editor
Apple Certified Trainer – Final Cut Pro
Oremus Productions
http://www.oremusproductions.com
– –
Adjunct Professor of Media
John Paul the Great Catholic University

[Paul Escandon]

All I see is a template GoDaddy page.

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Paul Escandon
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Oremus Productions
http://www.oremusproductions.com
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Adjunct Professor of Media
John Paul the Great Catholic University

[Paul Escandon]

Hey Casey,

I stayed up late all last night figuring out how this could be accomplished – and I was able to figure out a way that isn’t 100% perfect but I’ll leave it up to the community to finish what I started.

First of all, I was able to modify some apple scripts that I found online that will rotate (or “flip”) a quicktime movie 180 degrees and save it in a different directory all through applescript. I uploaded them to my server and you can download them here:

https://www.oremusproductions.com/scripts/

There are 2 files there. RotateQT180Degrees.app is the application that you simply drag a quicktime movie file on or a selection of movies. It will then simply ask you for your output directory and do it’s job. The other file is the script file so people can look at it and tweak it.

The problem with this solution is that it essentially created a reference file to the original media – just flipped (even though the opening screen says it will create a self contained movie – that is wrong). This is good and bad. Good because it completes the task very fast and doesn’t add very much disk space. Bad because when you drag this file into Final Cut – the image is not flipped. If you open the new reference movie in quicktime player, however, the image is flipped.

If anyone knows apple script out there and wants to take a look at this script to modify it to save a self contained movie and not a reference movie, please do. I don’t really understand apple script that well to know how to do that. Or, if you can give the user an option or saving a reference movie or self contained movie – that would be even better.

So this solution as it stands right now doesn’t work in Final Cut, but it does flip the quicktimes in quicktime player and creates reference movies. I’ve started this.. and hopefully someone can finish this.

Oh and that link to the other piece of software that does the flipping through XML is very useful. I e-mailed to see how to buy the program because the guy only has a demo version on his page.

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Paul Escandon
Producer | Director | Editor
Apple Certified Trainer – Final Cut Pro
Oremus Productions
http://www.oremusproductions.com
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Adjunct Professor of Media
John Paul the Great Catholic University

[Paul Escandon]

He’s asking if it’s possible to flip the image DURING the unique Compressor HV20 compressor workflow process instead of having to do it in Final Cut (which it seems like that thread answers).

It makes sense to me that he’d want to flip the image right there and then since he’s transcoding to ProRes at that point anyway. I’m going to look into this and see if there’s any way I can figure out to do this…

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Paul Escandon
Producer | Director | Editor
Apple Certified Trainer – Final Cut Pro
Oremus Productions
http://www.oremusproductions.com
– –
Adjunct Professor of Media
John Paul the Great Catholic University