Questions about pixel aspect for PAL DV footage

Derkoi

Derkoi

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I've shot some footage on DVX100 (4:3) & began to edit it in FCP.

Should i be setting my sequence settings with square pixels or not?

I've noticed the footage looks like it has blocky step like edges to objects. I didn't notice this when using Vegas.

Any suggestions?

:dankk2:
 
What version of FCP are you running? When you drop your first clip in a sequence, it should prompt you to match the sequence settings to the clip if they aren't the same. DV 4:3 is square pixels to the best of my knowledge.
 
Select the DV-PAL Easy Setup, create a new sequence and that sequence will have the proper settings. DV uses non-square pixels (as most video codecs do w/the exception being full raster HD codecs) and the step like edges are most likely interlacing artifacts. This artifacts are normal when you are viewing interlaced footage on a device not designed to playback interlaced footage (such as a computer monitor). I don't use Vegas, but many editing programs will only display a single field for viewing purposes because it looks more pleasing (no visible interlacing) and it reduces the load on the CPU.


-A
 
Thanks guys.

It's not interlacing artefacts, it was shot in progressive & captured progressive.

It's more like a low resolution. Maybe im just noticing standard def more and more. i dunno.
 
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