[Tj Lewis]

1. I found that early on, and it was set to normal, I thought setting it to best would solve my problem. It didn’t help at all. I even set the option above that Render all YUV at high precision. I didn’t figure it would do anything given my source footage, but thought it couldn’t hurt.

2. I think I tried this, but I’ve tried so much I can’t remember anymore. I’ll try this and get back. I think I tried it and it had basically no effect.

I did change the field order from to lower first to none. It helped slightly on the video that is scaled to 50%, but hurt the video that was 100%. Actually, both looked pretty similar, but they both were degraded somewhat, and it definitely looked more like an interlacing issue, which it should.

my source footage is DV 30P, which I assumed meant that I should set field order to none, but in reading up on this actually found out that even though it’s progressive it is still lower field. So that’s where I ended up. my video is set to lower field first, and best motion filtering. the video at 100% looks great, the video at 50% looks terrible.

My next step also is to go view other video that I’ve scaled down and see what the settings are on it as I don’t believe I’ve ever run into this problem before.

Thanks,

TJ

[Tj Lewis]

Thanks for the response. Yes, I’m viewing on an external monitor. However, my main test has been to export small chunks and compress for DVD, then build the DVD and view that on my computer as the primary way the product will be viewed is on a computer. I understand that the DVD will be up-ressed when viewing it this way, but everything looks reasonably good except for the scaled video. the video looks fine if it’s full screen, but when scaling to 50 percent and making sure I’m centered on even pixels and all that it looks terrible. like the fields aren’t rendering properly. Any other ideas? Thanks for your help.

[Tj Lewis]

Thanks for the response. We’re actually using it in Final Cut. If you go to the Effects tab, you can go to the Master Templates and use the Text Assembler.hd.motn out of the 3d text Projects folder. So we never leave Final Cut to use the Motion Template. I understand that there are often issues taking Motion files into Final Cut without rendering. Any ideas on how to keep it from freezing up when loading, or how to force it to open in the event that it keeps hanging up. I couldn’t even get to the project to delete it.

Update: We took the file to a laptop running FCP and were able to open it, slowly, but it opened. We deleted the offending file, saved as, renamed it, and took it back over to our other machine. It opened fine. If we hadn’t been able to do this and it would have kept freezing we would have been out several hours on our edit since our last save as. If there’s anything you or anyone else can think of to get a project open when it’s hanging like that, I’d love to hear it.

Thanks for you help.

TJ Lewis
Media Developer