[Tom Duncan]

Shane, that is exactly what I was looking for. Been looking a long time for a solution, thank you thank you so much. Tom

[Tom Duncan]

Thank you, that fixed it (acceptably).

cheers,
Tom

[Tom Duncan]

Thanks for the input everyone. I didn’t mention I had already brought the avchd into FCP via ProRes, but I was hoping to avoid an intermediate step.

Scoured the web and have not found any mention of a utility that will do it directly. Looks like AVCHD to ProRes to DVCPROHD is the only option, (or capture component direct to a high end card which I don’t have).

The problem I have now using Compressor converting to DVCPROHD is the frame rate. The DVCPROHD is shot with 24pA. (30P with advanced pulldown to 23.98 ?). The ProRes is 29.97

How do I get Compressor to match that so I can eventually use these together in a multiclip?

[Tom Duncan]

Thanks Shane for the response. I’ve been doing what you suggested and at that stage (DVD) the image looks terrible.

I think you are suggesting that this is not a field issue and that FCP, Compressor and/or DVDSP are managing the field orders irregardless of how the clips were captured. (?)

If that is the case it goes back to what I had first suspected which is that the brighter scenes are causing Compressor to degrade the image. I tried applying the broadcast safe filter which didn’t seem to help either. Any ideas?

thanks,td

[Tom Duncan]

” The monitor is a Sony pvm 14m2u.”

Connected to a G5 through dvi to s-video converter. 480 looks great but not 486.

Jagged edges on diagonal lines. You know like the round edges of shoulders, round eyeglasses on the subject, etc.

thanks, td

[Tom Duncan]

Again I apologize if Im being vague.

The sequence is set to 720×486, 8 bit uncompressed. Same as the footage. Yet the image on the monitor looks jagged.

There is no rendering required as it stands. On the motion tab the scale=100, Aspect ratio=0 and the distortion corners are 360/243. So there is no scaling or distortion as far as I can see.

It appears to me to be a 480 vs 486 line issue. If I set the sequence to 480, it softens the image slightly but no more jagged edges.

My monitor is hooked up to my G5 via dvi to s-video adapter. (maybe that is the problem?)

Am I leaving anything out?

[Tom Duncan]

I’m not sure what you mean. The attributes dont appear to have changed, why would I do this?

If I make the sequence 480 (vs486) everything looks gorgeous (a little soft). The problem then is everything requires rendering and that really slows me down. Could it be the monitor does not handle 486 lines?

If FCP is changing an attribute, where would I see this evident? Obviously, I really dont understand the nature of the problem.

thanks, td

[Tom Duncan]

Never mind. The player was moved over to my second screen which was turned off. DOH!

[Tom Duncan]

You mean reel names? FCP assigns the volume name to the reel. ex: NONAME, NONAME1

I’ll add that I tried another project and MM doesn’t do anything with it, using the same settings. For some reason it neither calculates disk space saved nor moves or copies files, besides not deleting.

Both projects use the same reel names. What I hear you saying is it should be working? (I’ve been told at the Apple forum that it’s a buggy program and not to expect it to work) Then there is some small factor that is missing? What else could it be?

thanks, td

[Tom Duncan]

Ok done. If I need to start a new thread to get help with this let me know.

thanks,td