Step Forward/Backward One Field

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Step Forward/Backward One Field

Sadly, Avid Media Composer has been my daily editing tool (my place of employment is an Avid house). I started on FCP and freelance using my FCP machine... believe me, I would very much rather be cutting on FCP. Going from FCP to Avid is... well... an interesting and frustrating experience.

However, AMC does has some useful features. One in particular is the "Step Forward/Backward 1 field."

I searched the manuals and the FCP shortcut tool, but I don't really see anything similar-- unless I'm totally missing something. Does FCP have such a feature?

Thanks a bunch.

Message was edited by: Anthony Tutrone

Mac OS X (10.5.5)

Posted on Oct 22, 2008 6:12 PM

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Answer 1

Oct 22, 2008 9:11 PM in response to Anthony Tutrone

Anthony: There is no direct way of doing this that I'm aware of. It would be a nice feature. There is a work-around. Place two copies of your clip in a timeline. Put the De-interlace filter on each. Select Upper (Odd) on one, and Lower (Even) on the other. Toggle the "track visible" on and off for the clip on top to see the field on the track below. Not pretty, but functional.

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Answer 2

Andy Mees

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Oct 23, 2008 1:22 AM in response to Kevin Cronin

You know what, unfortunately even that doesn't really work ... when the playhead is still FCP only ever displays the Upper Field in the Canvas +unless the canvas is set to 100%+. I once filed it as a bug but I am assured that this is how FCP was designed to work therefore it is not a bug. Go figure. If you add the Deinterlace Filter and tell it to remove the Upper Field you'll still see the upper field when the playhead is paused in the timeline, although It does correctly remove the Upper Field during playback and when rendered. The only workaround I'm aware of is to set the zoom level of the canvas window to 100%, at which point both fields are visible, and any field based effects are properly displayed.

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