Sorry for double posting this in the FCP forum, I meant to post it here first.
Hello everybody! Great forum here!
There is kind of a lot on this issue, but nothing I have found on this board or the Apple boards seems to help me at all (or maybe I am just missing something).
Just completed my first 24pa project. It is 6:45 min long. As far as I can tell, I did everything right in the capturing and editing. Used the Easy Preset Advanced Pulldown, made sure the Sequence setting was at 23.98. And chose to put the RT pulldown thing at 2:3:3:2.. couldn't decide which one would be better, but Ken Stone's page made it seem like if I wanted to stay true to the 24pa setting I should choose this option.
Anyway... The project file looked beautiful... absolutely no problems while editing.
I chose to use Ken Stone's DVD workflow path, made the quicktime move self contianed and then put that in compressor and chose the best quality 90 minute 4:3 and AIFF.
The problem arises now, the compressed mpeg 2 that I created has the very slightest flicker to it. I have read alot of people on this board complaining about a "Strobe" effect. I wouldn't go so far as to call it a "strobe", but maybe I am being too forgiving. I would imagine a strobe would be an image that flucatuates between image and black. The problem I seem to be having is very subtle. The image simple gets a little dimmer every second or so. It is really strange. In fact, it is so subtle that i didn't even notice it until the very last shot of the movie. The last shot is a little darker than the rest and is completely static. It is a landscape image at sunset. (This problem is not evident when watching in Final Cut). After noticing it here, I went back through the project and looked for the problem in other shots. After a lot of REALLY REALLY close scrutiny, I can discern the problem in a few of the other static shots. The other shots of the film are from inside a moving car, and I don't expect I would be able to see this problem in them due to the constant change of light and color. Anyway... at first I thought the problem was only in the last shot and might have had something to do with the semi-darkness. But now I do believe it is a part of the whole compressed product.
Is this some kind of interlacing thing? Field dominanace? Is this a problem in my Final Cut Project or in the Compressor settings?
I really do apologize for how long this post is, but I thought I would lay out all the facts.
Thank you for actually reading all that!
Hello everybody! Great forum here!
There is kind of a lot on this issue, but nothing I have found on this board or the Apple boards seems to help me at all (or maybe I am just missing something).
Just completed my first 24pa project. It is 6:45 min long. As far as I can tell, I did everything right in the capturing and editing. Used the Easy Preset Advanced Pulldown, made sure the Sequence setting was at 23.98. And chose to put the RT pulldown thing at 2:3:3:2.. couldn't decide which one would be better, but Ken Stone's page made it seem like if I wanted to stay true to the 24pa setting I should choose this option.
Anyway... The project file looked beautiful... absolutely no problems while editing.
I chose to use Ken Stone's DVD workflow path, made the quicktime move self contianed and then put that in compressor and chose the best quality 90 minute 4:3 and AIFF.
The problem arises now, the compressed mpeg 2 that I created has the very slightest flicker to it. I have read alot of people on this board complaining about a "Strobe" effect. I wouldn't go so far as to call it a "strobe", but maybe I am being too forgiving. I would imagine a strobe would be an image that flucatuates between image and black. The problem I seem to be having is very subtle. The image simple gets a little dimmer every second or so. It is really strange. In fact, it is so subtle that i didn't even notice it until the very last shot of the movie. The last shot is a little darker than the rest and is completely static. It is a landscape image at sunset. (This problem is not evident when watching in Final Cut). After noticing it here, I went back through the project and looked for the problem in other shots. After a lot of REALLY REALLY close scrutiny, I can discern the problem in a few of the other static shots. The other shots of the film are from inside a moving car, and I don't expect I would be able to see this problem in them due to the constant change of light and color. Anyway... at first I thought the problem was only in the last shot and might have had something to do with the semi-darkness. But now I do believe it is a part of the whole compressed product.
Is this some kind of interlacing thing? Field dominanace? Is this a problem in my Final Cut Project or in the Compressor settings?
I really do apologize for how long this post is, but I thought I would lay out all the facts.
Thank you for actually reading all that!