DV/DVCPRO Export

[Loki]

So I am mainly a Final Cut Pro guy, but I sold my buddy an old AVID a year ago.

I was helping him burn a DVD of his in progress film. He shot on the DVX.. 24p.. yadda yadda..

My assumption was that exporting a DV quicktime movie would be easy from AVID. Turns out I was wrong.. or I messed up some where along the way.

When the export was finally finished, the image quality was absolutely terrible. I setup to export a Quicktime Movie [for Protools].. The only export setting where I could actually change the quicktime codec to DV/DVCPRO.

So I set the codec, set it to export Audio / Video. Frame Size is 720x480 (dv pixels).

everything looks kosher.. yet.. when I view the image.. it looks like this:

It looks like the files were just exported using only 1 field for the image.

Anyone have any trouble exporting from AVID to a DV quicktime format?

The footage looks as it should with the Avid software..

 

[Jim2000]

It looks to me like your friend was editing in a 30 frame interlaced project. Therefore, what you are seeing is indeed, one field. When you play out the quicktime on a television monitor, you shouldn't see this problem, because both fields will play.

If you're worried that a field was dropped. Import the quicktime you made into a 30i Avid project. You can map some keys to your keyboard that will let you view one field at a time. This is a great function of the Avid that allows you to see potential interlace problems.

If you know what you're doing on an Avid and you have a controllable, frame accurate deck, you can easily digitize 24p straight into a 24 frame project. There's no ridiculous FCP workaround of having to run everything through film tools to get 24p.

 

[Loki]

It looks to me like your friend was editing in a 30 frame interlaced project. Therefore, what you are seeing is indeed, one field. When you play out the quicktime on a television monitor, you shouldn't see this problem, because both fields will play.

If you're worried that a field was dropped. Import the quicktime you made into a 30i Avid project. You can map some keys to your keyboard that will let you view one field at a time. This is a great function of the Avid that allows you to see potential interlace problems.

If you know what you're doing on an Avid and you have a controllable, frame accurate deck, you can easily digitize 24p straight into a 24 frame project. There's no ridiculous FCP workaround of having to run everything through film tools to get 24p.

FCP you can capture directly to a 24p source file.. Cinema Tools is there for footage that needs to have it's telecine pulldown reversed if it wasn't before hand... ala film transfer to miniDV.

He did indeed edit at 30i. But that still wouldn't explain this. Even if you edit at 30i(60i) technically the only interlaced frame you have is the one created in the 2:3:3:2 pulldown.

conundrum.

 

[Jim2000]

If you edit in an interlaced project, then all of your frames are interlaced, even if they originally came from a progressive source.

When I edit interlaced material in FCP and pause the footage in the view, it looks just like the stills you showed.

Play your quicktime out on a real monitor. It'll probably look fine.