[Vito Defilippo]

Hey guys,

Sorry, I should have updated the thread when I fixed the problem.

Turns out that when the DV footage was put into an HDV sequence by mistake, FCP ads a “shift fields” effect to each clip to make the DV material comply to the HDV field order.

When I changed the sequence property to put it to DV, FCP is not smart enough to remove those effects, so the field order was indeed wrong. I had to go into each clip and remove that effect.

After that, all was fine.

Thanks everyone for your time and suggestions. Much appreciated.

[Vito Defilippo]

Okay, just went to a neighbour to try their tv.

Put in the DVD and got a big error triangle in the middle that says “PSCAN!”.

And it played the file, but split the image in two copies mirror left and right. WTF?

I’m guessing it thinks the DVD is progressive, and it doesn’t like it?

But I never deinterlaced it in any step.

Sigh again…

[Vito Defilippo]

Just remembered something else.

The project came to me as a bare FCP project with the clips already captured. I opened the project and created a sequence. Started to edit.

At one point, I noticed that for some reason, the sequence was set as HDV.

I changed the sequence properties to DV anamorphic, selected all the clips and removed the distortion attributes to get the clips back to the proper size.

Would this have anything to do with it?

[Vito Defilippo]

Thank you, Rafael. I’ll see if I can find one in the neighbourhood to try. They’re getting scarce!

[Vito Defilippo]

Hi Rafael,

No, it’s a widescreen plasma.

Thanks…

[Vito Defilippo]

I think he’s asking why is it cheaper to buy Xpress Pro, then upgrade to Media Composer: as opposed to just buying Media Composer from the get go…

[Vito Defilippo]

Thanks for the explanation. Much appreciated.

[Vito Defilippo]

May I humbly ask what a tape hit is? I’ve never heard the term, and searches turn up nothing.

Thanks…

[Vito Defilippo]

If you have a sequence with no effects and just cuts, there is nothing to render. I don’t understand what you are trying to render… Are you exporting something?

[Vito Defilippo]

This is a video driver issue. You need to adjust the overlay settings in your video driver options so that the paused image matches the played image.