Apple Event: May 7th at 7 am PT
I am gettimng "tearing" on verticals in a clip treated with Smooth Cam when I create QT movie (H264). Where SmoothCam hasn't been used i don't have the problem. The tearing is only evident on the exported QT file, not in the FCP canvas so unsure where exactly the problem lies. Any help gratefully received. Thanks, Peter
In FCP, set the canvas scale to 100% and look at the scene you have applied smoothcam to. Do you see the same thing as the exported QuickTime?
Click on a source clip in the FCP Browser, and once selected type Command + 9 to see the item properties for the clip. Either report those properties, or take a screen shot of the properties and post that here.
Next. click anywhere on your sequence timeline, and then type Command + 0 {zero} to see the Sequence Settings. Either report those settings here or take a screen shot and post that screen shot here.
MtD
Thanks MtD de-interlacing sorted the tearing issue ... I didn't shoot the footage but had assumed that 25fps was progressive rather than interlaced by default - is this not necessarily always the case then ?
Well, I am not sure what your workflow was to ingest the source camera clips into the system. But the two screen shots you posted indicated an interlaced source on an interlaced timeline.
25p is progressive. Some video cameras will record a supposed "progressive appearing" image, but in an interlaced format.
Do you know what the original camera was, and what the settings were on the camera when the clips werre made?
How where those clips taken off the camera media and ingested into FCP?
MtD
It was a Canon 5d mk 2. I was advised by the camera op to convert the native QT H 264 files to Apple Pro Res but I don't know much more other than he shot 25 fps. I'd be interested in any thoughts but you have resolved my main issue re. the tearing. Many thanks, peter
That is correct, you need to convert the native camera files from H.264 to ProRes. How did you do this?
I have seen cases where a converted file will be flagged with field dominance even though it is a progressive file. If you used a converted file that was incorrectly flagged as the first clip on an FCP timeline, and FCP prompted you to match your sequence to your source clip and you did so, you may be unnecessarily editing on an interlaced timeline.
MtD
Interestng. Thanks. I do a lot of H264 to Prores. Something new to keep in mind.
I used Mpeg Streamclip, so it sounds as though I may not have paid enough attention to my settings there ... thanks
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