Progressive zooming

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Anartiste

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Hi there,

I'm finishing editing my film in which I have included a few slow zooming effects by progressively changing the scale of the clips. I would have dreamed to be able to shoot them directly on set, but... DVX may be a magic camera, it is not [/i]that magic.

My problem is that FCP doesn't seem to be able to proceed this kind of operation in progressive mode. The zooms are quite slow so the interlaced ugliness is not really visible but still...

I wonder if there is a way to perform these zooms in progressive mode other than applying the "deinterlace" filter. And if "deinterlace" is the only option, will it damage the footage (already damaged by the scale operation, one is enough) ?

And my questioning goes beyond, as I'm about to start the titling and credits sections where they will be quite a bit of graphic motion, and I sure don't want some cheap interlaced animation to devastate my beautiful (and so painfully acquired) progressive material.

Thanks to soothe my anguish.
 
Re: Progressive zooming

fcp does a great job of rotating and zooming. i'm not sure i understand your problem. and you shouldn't be getting any interlacing artifacts, unless you are doing extremely fast moves. in which case you CAN apply the deinterlace filter. and that wont hurt your footage any more than you already are by scaling it in the first place.

check this short out. i had the camera locked down on a tripod, but decided to add the illusion of camera movement in fcp.

http://homepage.mac.com/antomic/pokernight.html

in regards to the titles...make sure any graphic you create has thick enough lines as to not flicker. i usually apply either a gaussian blur or a motion blur to any scrolling type and it does a great job.
 
Re: Progressive zooming

antomic:
that was cool. I loved the effects. The eye effect was fun.
I couldn't figure out what was going on until the end, perfect.
wish all contracts could be ended that way.


good job.
 
Re: Progressive zooming

thanks ian. it was fun...it placed third in the DVXUser december contest.
 
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