[Peter Dunphy]

Hi Mark

This thread by Jim Giberti might be useful:

https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/335/18954#18954

Warm regards

Peter

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[Peter Dunphy]

Here is a photo of the jagged version vs the new version (ticking ‘Deinterlace Video’ (Interlaced Scaling and Reinterlace Chroma greyed out and ticked) the ‘jagged edges’ seem to go away)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/55202877@N06/6807028307/

Peter Dunphy

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[Peter Dunphy]

Update – by ticking ‘Deinterlace Video’ (Interlaced Scaling and Reinterlace Chroma greyed out and ticked) the ‘jagged edges’ seem to go away. Does this sound normal?

Peter Dunphy

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[Peter Dunphy]

The client had shown me a ‘testimonial’ page on their website which showed videos at 640 × 360. Small little boxes. They asked me to copy that, so I compressed the video to 640 × 360. To me, in the small 640 × 360 box, the video looks good and comes in within the 100MB data limit they wanted.

It was only once I’d delivered the compressed MP4 at 640 × 360 that they uploaded the video directly to their website. However, for my video (not the previous testimonial videos) they included a ‘Download’ option. Now, when they expand the video to view any bigger that the 640 × 360 small box they’d requested from me, the video image looks jagged.

Do you think this is less about interlacing and perhaps more about the less-than-100MB data limit the client wanted for the video?

Peter Dunphy

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[Peter Dunphy]

Hi Craig

I received the below from the tech department of the client. If you can offer any advice whatsoever I’d really appreciate it:

“I downloaded the video from the website yesterday. The video seems to have an interlacing problem. This is nothing to do with compression (necessary to keep the download size manageable).

You can see it in the attached screenshots; any time there is movement, a series of jagged horizontal lines appear around the movement. This is quite apparent in the close-ups of interviewee speaking.

I believe the video should have been interlaced before it was supplied to us. Interlaced footage is designed for web delivery; de-interlaced footage as seen here is only used for TV broadcast and DVDs.”

The video was shot at 50i on a Canon XHA1 (PAL) in the UK then edited as ProRes 422, exported as Quicktime from FCP, then brought into MPEG Streamclip.

Using MPEG Streamclip I created a compressed MP4 with the following stream info:

Duration: 0:10:24
Data Size: 89.98 MB
Bit Rate: 1.21 Mbps

Video Tracks:
H.264, 640 × 360, 25 fps, 1.08 Mbps

Audio Tracks:
MPEG-4 Audio stereo, 48 kHz, 128 kbps

Under the MPEG Streamclip heading ‘Deselect for progressive movies’ I had ‘Interlaced Scaling’ ticked (yes), ‘Reinterlace Chroma’ ticked (yes, greyed out) and ‘Deinterlace Video’ not* ticked (no). Field Dominance is set to Upper Field First.

I’m pretty confused since I had ‘Interlaced Scaling’ ticked.

What do you think please?

Warm regards

Peter

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[Peter Dunphy]

[Jeremy Garchow] “Roles to tracks via AAF. Sweet.”

I haven’t used ProTools or FCPX before, but my question is, would going from FCPX to ProTools and back again be similar to ‘old’ FCP to Soundtrack Pro and back again? As simple as that?

Peter Dunphy

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[Peter Dunphy]

Do you think the new update has improved the audio capabilities in any way?

Peter Dunphy

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[Peter Dunphy]

Please please please be good!!!!!

https://news.cnet.com/8301-27076_3-57368640-248/final-cut-pro-x-update-brings-multicam-back-into-the-picture/

Peter Dunphy

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[Peter Dunphy]

Hi Jim, and Steve,

Thanks so much for your feedback about the audio capabilities of FCPX. If the trial’s still available I will give it a go.

The sooner the new update comes around the better. I have high hopes that Apple will get their act together and try to make amends in FCPX.

Warm regards

Peter

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[Peter Dunphy]

Tweet from Chris Jones “Why you should choose Adobe CS 5.5 for editing your film” and his blog entry

https://www.chrisjonesblog.com/2012/01/avid-or-final-cut-pro-x-tips-for-setting-up-your-first-feature-film-cutting-room.html#comment-2405

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