[Wally]

Thanks guys. I will follow you advice.

[Wally]

Thanks Carl, I’ll check it out!

[Wally]

Thanks for all your help Russell. I followed one of your questions and investigated the original footage and found that most of it was ripped from a DVD and saved in “iMovie”, why I don’t know. I did not know about this until I went back to check it out. I re-ripped the footage and everything is back on track.

Again, thank you for your help. I would still be fooling around without your advice instead of going back to the source.

Thanks again,

Wally

[Wally]

Russell,

Could you please explain what you mean by workflow?

Thanks,

Wally

[Wally]

I found out that the real problem I’m having is the same I realated to you in the other post. There is difficulty with the footage when I put it in the time line and it shows the pixels in the Canvas. It is perfect in the viewer. I am confused to say the least. I now have the original footage and will be logging and capturing it again. I will let you know how it turns out. In the mean while, do you have any ideas?

Thanks,

Wally

[Wally]

Russell,

The original footage is unavailable at this point. I did go to the browser, put the footage back into the Viewer and it was perfect. However, when I edited it and placed it into the time line, the pixels showed up again in the Canvas. Obviously the problem has been found but now how do I solve it?

Thank you for your anticipated help,

Wally

[Wally]

The work flow was basically this:
The media was captured into FCP, exported in some cases (those filmed on a blue screen) into After Effects for masking. Each time Animation was used. The finished media was re-imported into FCP for editing and finally exported in DVDVC-Pro for burning to a DVD. I hope that I understood correctly by work flow. As you certainly have guessed, I am just a bit better than a novice.

Thanks for your help,
Wally

[Wally]

I tried your suggestion with the ‘Shift Fields’ and nothing happened. I did try the Sharpen filter and interestingly 7 the most made it worse.

[Wally]

The work was done in After Effects (blue screen/dvGarage), Animation codec. The virgin scenes were ripped from a DVD using DVDxDVPro which had been in DVDVC Pro originally and then in Animation after the rip. What else would be informative?

Thanks,

Wally

[Wally]

They were scenes were captured on a Panasonic DV camera 3CCD PV-GS250 and exported in QT Animation. Some scenes were on an unmasked blue screen, some were background to a mask and two were just virgin shots with nothing added. All had pixels residue due to action of the scene.

Jerry, I appreciate your help,

Wally