[Rick Sebeck]

I know it is the fields, but unlike DV footage, or uncompressed footage that is imported form say a Cinewave system. The AJA footage seems to show the fields visually as large stripes when paused. Again, this isn’t an issue, except when I try to roto in After effects. Then the image has major stair steps. This happens on two different systems, one with a Kona 2 and one with a Io.

I don’t think this is a “problem” I am just wondering what others are doing in the same situation.

[Rick Sebeck]

Thanks Steve.

I just figured out that the sequence was set to 24fps not 23.98, right before I read your post!

So should I have not reversed telecined to 24fps? should I have gone to 23.98?

It is ending in film, hence the 24 fps workflow.

Thanks for the link. It is very helpful.

-Rick

[Rick Sebeck]

Thanks Steve.

I just figured out that the sequence was set to 24fps not 23.98, right before I read your post!

So should I have not reversed telecined to 24fps? should I have gone to 23.98?

It is ending in film, hence the 24 fps workflow.

Thanks for the link. It is very helpful.

-Rick

[Rick Sebeck]

set the horizontal scale to -100 make sure you uncheck the box so you don’t affect thee vertical scale too!

[Rick Sebeck]

Have you tried changing the sequence setting field dominance to “none”. If I have it set to “lower” my text is always pixelated. The green goo is because of drop shadows. Remove your drop shadows, and then you can render true YUV 10bit.

[Rick Sebeck]

If you open the file in Quicktime, you can copy and paste into Photoshop. Only bummer is it can be tricky scrubbing through long movies. But you can right arrow, left arrow scrub when you get close. When you paste, it actually keeps both fields, so you can de-interlace in Photoshop.

[Rick Sebeck]

Figured it out myself…

Duplicate the #D ring of text. Put the actor in between the two layers. On the top layer of text click “render outside” on the bottom click “render inside” TADA!!! ring of text that rotates around an object in a 3D space. lovely!

[Rick Sebeck]

You could always do the “capture first, log later” approach. If you have the drive space, capture the entire clip, then open the clip in the viewer and add markers at each take. Then, from the browser select the markers and drag them into a new bin. FCP will turn them into sub clips. Rename them how you’d like, and your good to go.

[Rick Sebeck]

You could remap your keyboard to the media 100 style. And as far as capturing shortcuts… F2 “logs clip” then you can do a batch capture. I didn’t fully appreciate the Log and Capture window, until the first time I had to log a feature film. Believe it or not, it is AWESOME. Mark in, Mark out, name roll, name scene, name take.. press F2. It then sets the outpoint to the next inpoint, and sequences the take number.

I’ll admit it can be clumsy if your not logging in the traditional film setting.

[Rick Sebeck]

Exactly… I get a weird jitter as well. I have been keeping my sequences to “none” so that my text looks sharp and crisp, then removing field dominance on clips that have jitter. I have noticed film clips that have been telecined, when scaled to less than 100% are the worst. You can actually see the bars of interlacing when parked on a B frame.

I never noticed this before FCP 5