[Sean Oneil]

That’s a tough one. Sounds stupid but try a different firewire cable and a different firewire port.

You might want to mention what deck and camera you’re using. Maybe someone with the same equipment knows what’s going on.

In the meantime, if you have time to kill, you might want to try capturing it using something other than Final Cut. It could just be one of those compatibility issues. I just Googled this, there’s a free trial for Adobe Premiere:
https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/tdrc/index.cfm?product=premiere%5Fpro

If that actually works, I’m sure you can import the captured footage into Final Cut and still edit with Final Cut.

Sean

[Sean Oneil]

I have two theories.

One is that you have 30fps footage, but you’re editing in a 60fps sequence. When you export and MPEG directly via compressor, the Pro Apps assume it is 60fps, so it 60i MPEG. While that shouldn’t matter since the footage is only 30, it could be causing the field order to be wrong. Hence your problem. Try a 730p30 sequence like everyone here mentioned.

Another possibility is that Compressor is creating a progressive scan 30p MPEG. While I believe this allowed for the DVD spec, I think it is uncommon (and pointless). This leaves it up to the DVD player to interlace the video itself during playback. And maybe your particular DVD player isn’t very good at doing this. The easiest way to check if your MPEGs are 30p is to import it into Final Cut, look at it in the FCP Browser window, scroll over to “Field Dominance” and see if it says Upper, Lower, or None. If it says “None”, then Quicktime (and ultimately DVDSP) assumes it’s progressive-scan and is authoring the DVD accordingly. This would explain why it looks fine on your computer, but not after you’ve burned a disc.

Sean

[Sean Oneil]

I don’t think there’s anything called SDCam. Do you mean XDcam? “Capture Now” still captures timecode. I’m guessing you ignored timecode breaks?

If so this is what you do. Re-capture all the tapes at full quality. Highlight one of your new captured clips in the Final Cut Browser, and select “Modify” at the top. Then choose “Timecode”. The tool is self-evident. You can change each clip’s timecode and reall name to match whatever your bad “Capture Now” clips are. Then you reconnect and you’re done. It doesn’t matter if the new clips have different durations, it will still work.

Sean

[Sean Oneil]

I thought it was the other way around.

Sean

[Sean Oneil]

I don’t know the tech details, but AFP is faster and uses less CPU overhead when using OSX machines. Presumably because the OS is tweaked to maximize performance for that protocol.

Sean

[Sean Oneil]

Marc,

You can make SD look good on that monitor. Find a high-end consumer HDMI video scaler that has a DCDI scaling/deinterlacing chip. Or if you can find one with the Realta chip (which was designed by Teranex).

An interesting product is one from Gefen:
https://www.gefen.com/kvm/product.jsp?prod_id=4298

There are other products as well. A lot of home stereo receivers can do this.

This kind of product will make SD look very, very good on the Dell 24″ or any other computer monitor. It’s essentially the same process that the high-end Panasonic LCD pro monitors use (although those have been calibrated to display accurate NTSC colors).

The issue is whether or not you want it to look good. The broadcast monitor is supposed to be “What You See Is What You Get”.

Sean

[Sean Oneil]

[Matthew Nelson] “If this is the case any field/frame relation with the source 24P was blown away when the 29.97 telecine was PAL converted. The standards conversion process generates its own unique fields/frames. “

True, but it can still be repaired. There are tools capable of deinterlacing anything, and there are tools which can intelligently remove duplicate frames and output a desired framerate. Unfortunately I can’t find an app that combines both techniques in order to solve this particular problem.

Good news is I contacted the author of JES and he says he’ll be able to add this feature.

Sean

[Sean Oneil]

Are you running Tiger or Leopard?

Sean

[Sean Oneil]

[Jerry Alto] “Check out the Blackmagic Intensity card which has HDMI in.”

That absolutely will not work. HDMI from a Blu-ray player uses HDCP encryption.

Analog component capture could work, but not if the disc uses Macrovision protection.

Creative Cow is not the proper forum to learn how to rip Blu-ray discs. I would look elsewhere.

Sean

[Sean Oneil]

Get an Apple brand Nvidia 7300GT PCI Express card.

Sean