Progessive scan footage flickering in FCP

Hi Everyone:

Hope someone can help me. I am located in the Virgin Islands and have an impending deadline. My original footage which was captured w/ my sony pd170 in progressive scan mode flickers when previewed in FCP and on output monitors. What is the cure for this problem? My deadline is looming large and I have a client that loves to scream.
Have tried changing the sequence settings to 24fps and the compressor to dv-pal (which, after rendering, eliminates the flickering) however the clip will only output freeze frames to external monitor. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance,

howard

The PD170 doesn't have a progressive scan mode though. Did you shoot PAL or NTSC?

Graeme



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Graeme:

Thanks for your response.

I shot in NTSC; in the menu under "manual set" is the progressive mode feature which can be set to either on or off.

Howard

But that's not a real progressive mode - it's a sort of Sony faked up thing that runs at 15 fps if my memory serves me right. To help you beyond that, I'd need to see some of the footage to see if any kind of fix is possible.

Graeme



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Graeme:

I have found a solution, however, the entire clip is only viewable as freeze frames. I cannot play it from start to finish. My external monitor will not play it. Does FCP has some settings that I need to adjust to make it play correctly. Again, i have rendered the clip as a dv-pal compressed file @ 24fps.

Thanks for your help,

Howard

It would have to be DV-NTSC 23.98fps for FCP to play out to a monitor properly.

Graeme



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I also have a suggestion for howarduk: aside from making sure the footage plays at 23.98 fps, make sure these clips have their field dominance set to "none" in the Browser column "Field Dominance." Progressive scan footage's field dominance is always supposed to be set to none.



writetome51

Graeme/writetome:

Thanks for your response.

Let me get this straight, when loading the footage does my capture and sequence settings need to set at DV-NTSC advanced 2:3:3:2 pulldown (or straight DV-NTSC) and DV-NTSC 23.98fps respectively?

Howard

No, should be DV NTSC 29.97fps. You're not using a Panasonic 24p camera, so no 2:3:3:2 pulldown to remove. Just use the DV NTSC easy preset.

Graeme



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