Geoffrey Cox
August 30th, 2009, 08:55 AM
Hi All,
I'm pretty new to HDV having worked in SD until now and I posted a question a little while ago about how footage (HDV 1920x1080, 50i) looked horribly blurred once imported into my Mac (it looked the same in FCP, QT etc). There were some useful responses but no real conclusions. Subsequently I think I realised this is largely an interlacing issue though I've never seen it this bad but I noticed that when I used VLC player and switched on Bob deinterlacing the blurriness diminished considerably though not entirely. I also found that selecting NO field dominance in FCP sequence settings had a similar effect. I also think that since my footage is PAL 50i then native 60Hz computer screens also cause problems. What a minefield all of this is!
I found to my relief that when I printed a FCP 6 sequence back to tape it looked as good as the original footage, all blurriness, judderiness etc gone. But I'm still confused because I haven't de-interlaced and am still watching it back on the same progressive monitor so how come the interlacing artifacts are virtually all gone? I should say that when I connect the monitor to my Sony HDV player it flashes up the resolution 1920 x 1080i @50Hz as it does when I use it as external monitor for FCP.
Does this mean that the only performance / distribution medium is going to be tape because whenever I play it from computer it looks poor - yes I could de-interlace (and I've tried this) but the pristine beauty of the original is lost.
I use a high spec MacBook Pro, FCP6 and view on a 1920x1200 Native Samsung 1080p LCD screen. The footage is from an XHA1
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Geoff
I'm pretty new to HDV having worked in SD until now and I posted a question a little while ago about how footage (HDV 1920x1080, 50i) looked horribly blurred once imported into my Mac (it looked the same in FCP, QT etc). There were some useful responses but no real conclusions. Subsequently I think I realised this is largely an interlacing issue though I've never seen it this bad but I noticed that when I used VLC player and switched on Bob deinterlacing the blurriness diminished considerably though not entirely. I also found that selecting NO field dominance in FCP sequence settings had a similar effect. I also think that since my footage is PAL 50i then native 60Hz computer screens also cause problems. What a minefield all of this is!
I found to my relief that when I printed a FCP 6 sequence back to tape it looked as good as the original footage, all blurriness, judderiness etc gone. But I'm still confused because I haven't de-interlaced and am still watching it back on the same progressive monitor so how come the interlacing artifacts are virtually all gone? I should say that when I connect the monitor to my Sony HDV player it flashes up the resolution 1920 x 1080i @50Hz as it does when I use it as external monitor for FCP.
Does this mean that the only performance / distribution medium is going to be tape because whenever I play it from computer it looks poor - yes I could de-interlace (and I've tried this) but the pristine beauty of the original is lost.
I use a high spec MacBook Pro, FCP6 and view on a 1920x1200 Native Samsung 1080p LCD screen. The footage is from an XHA1
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Geoff