HDV footage in 480i timeline

Moseph

Moseph

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For a section of the skateboarding video that I'm currently producing, i wanted to take a much more cinematic approach than the rest of the video. So i took out an XH-A1 from my school and shot it in HDV at 24F, and I think with a 2:3 pulldown, not the 2:3:3:2 advanced one because the rest of my video is in 60i. however, it looks bad when i drop it into a 480i timeline. I think i know why too, because HD has a field dominance of the upper field and SD is lower, but I don't know how i'd solve this issue. When I imported the footage to the timeline, FCP automatically applied a shift fields filter, but it still looks bad. It looks crystal clear in the preview, but in the interlaced canvas or viewer, it like this.
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Anyone know of a good way to solve this? I have after effects as well.
EDIT - It also looks crystal clear when i set it to no field dominance. Is this what I should actually be doing even though it's going to be mixed in with footage in an SD / interlaced timeline from an SD / interlaced camera?
 
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Just try and match the field order of the footage you are importing to the sequence settings.

Or, use the deinterlace filter...

I'd say, regarding "no field dominance," as long as the footage plays out and doesn't have any jerkiness, go with it.

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yeah using no field dominance is what i wanted to do but i thought i might run into issues later on in the workflow, i guess that's what ill do since there's no issues with the 60i footage in it, thanks for the input.
 
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