Problems in FCE?

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Evan Hansel

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Hello everyone, I have a quick question concerning the quality of my video.

I am using a Canon Vixia HF M30. I was recording in MXP mode, and I got the same problem at all Frame rate options. (60i, 30P, 24P)

The first image is a screen shot of my computer while viewing the video clip in 'fit to screen' through quicktime player.

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There is barely any motion going on in this capture. The birds are being quite still.

Now in the second photo you can see that there are two birds in mid flight. However, they are very very distorted.

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Does anyone know why this is? The pictures are from the clip that was shot in 60i.
I am not sure if this is a problem with Final Cut or the camcorder. If anyone has any information that could help me I would appreciate it very much.
 
It's called interlacing.

Your camera records everything at 60i, even in 30p and 24p modes. Further, Final Cut Express cannot handle pulldown removal for editing of 24p material at 23.976, neither can you change the field dominance settings in order to edit 30p material. FCE is really, really limited. You'll need to stick with 60i mode on the Vixia if you're editing with FCE, and you'll see the interlacing as it's just a part of the process (the "i" in 60i stands for interlaced).

It won't show up when played back on a TV. If you're going to post anything you shoot/edit to the web, you'll need to deinterlace it when you convert it to a web-friendly codec.
 
Alright thank you very much.

I knew the 60i stood for interlaced, I didn't know the others would be the same and I wasn't really sure if that was the problem.

and I'll be sure to check the de-interlace video this time and see how it looks.
 
Evan Hansel said:
Alright thank you very much.

I knew the 60i stood for interlaced, I didn't know the others would be the same and I wasn't really sure if that was the problem.

and I'll be sure to check the de-interlace video this time and see how it looks.
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Don't deinterlace until you are done working with the video. Export a full-rez version (File>Export>QuickTime Movie, current settings, self-contained), then use something like MPEG StreamClip to convert it and deinterlace for the web.
 
C2V said:
Don't deinterlace until you are done working with the video. Export a full-rez version (File>Export>QuickTime Movie, current settings, self-contained), then use something like MPEG StreamClip to convert it and deinterlace for the web.
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oh alright, yeah I was also a little unsure about the way I was exporting.

Thank you for the help, I appreciate it.
 
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