interlaced with de-interlaced footage

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interlaced with de-interlaced footage

Hi everyone. For the first time I had to take footage that was exported to QT from Adobe premeir and imported it into my FCP7, I'm not sure if I did this right but I de-interlaced the footage and then added my footage that I captured from my camera onto my time line. Should everything be de-interlaced in the time line? I've been having problems for the past 5 days with idvd and multiplexing errors so I then went to the store and bought an external dvd burner and was able to burn a dvd finally. Everything worked fine on the dvd when I watched it but it froze when I got to the footage at the end which was not de-interlaced. Any suggesrions on this?

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6), 250 gig hard drive, 4 gigs memory

Posted on Dec 5, 2011 3:57 PM

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Answer 1

Russ H

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Dec 5, 2011 5:58 PM in response to tony bondi1

Overly complicating. Don't de-interlace unless you're delivering your project to the Web…or some presentation format where the interlacing presents a problem. DVD's that are played on televisions should be fine. So for delivery to DVD, I wouldn't de-interlace at all. And don't judge the quality from your computer screen; it will look different on a TV.

Highly unlikely that your external burner was the solution to your problems. Having said that, I have no idea what your original problem actually was. The workflow from FCP to iDVD is very straightforward: export QT movie (not QT Conversion).Bring QT file into iDVD and burn…most often than not, you'll get a a very good looking disk.

Also check out DVD Studio Pro and Compressor.

Good luck.

Russ

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Answer 2

Dec 6, 2011 6:32 AM in response to tony bondi1

Take a look at this article I wrote about transferring your HD video to DVD. This may help explain the workflow you need.

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