"Interlaced" footage question...

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blando3

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Hey All,
I shot some video for a client the other day in 1080 24p on the HVX. On my MacBook Pro, the footage looks great, with that nice 24p look. But on my Mac Pro with Dell monitors, the footage has that "interlaced" look with horizontal blurriness when there is movement.

Could my settings be off on the Mac Pro? Maybe something within Final Cut? Again, the footage looks good on the laptop, so I don't think it has anything to do with how I shot it.

Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Andrew
 
Did you change your sequence settings AFTER you dropped the footage in? If so, that could be the wrench in the machine. Can you post a freeze frame grab?
 
Picture 25.jpgI dropped the clip into the timeline and it prompted me to match the sequence settings to the clip, and I said yes.
 
This is most likely because you shot with 1080 24p standard rather than 1080 24pA. FCP can't remove standard pulldown automatically; it can only remove 24pA pulldown.

You can remove the pulldown manually in Cinema Tools. For the future, shoot 24pA.
 
Thanks. Actually, I set the field dominance to Upper (instead of none) and it got rid of it. Lower works too, although I'm not sure what Field Dominance means.
I'll shoot 24pA in the future.
 
You will still see interlacing in some frames. You should edit in a 60i (29.97 interlaced) sequence if you're not going to remove the pulldown.

Field dominance refers to which field of an interlaced pair comes first. None means there are no fields and it's progressive footage. That's what you actually want, but you need to remove pulldown before you can use it.
 
I'd recommend that you read the manual that came with your camera. The HVX cannot shoot 1080 24P without pulldown. If you don't know what field dominance means, you're in for a lot of trouble. This is video 101. Your FCP manual explains field dominance, and Wikipedia has some useful information, too.
 
I'll recommend you take the manual that came with the camera, and throw it in the trash. It's the poorest written garbage I've ever seen. Barry Green has an HVX200 book out you REALLY need to invest in. It's not video 101, sorry, it's HVX/Panny specific.
 
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