FIELD DOMINANCE- HELP

To the chase:


Sequence settings> Field Dominance set to lower:
Video looks great.
Type and still images look horrible. Bitmapped and chunky.

Sequence settings> Field Dominance set to none:
Type & Stills looks AWESOME, Crisp vibrant, perfect.
Video looks like crap. Any special effects i.e speed
Looks ghosted and very chunky.

Please can someone please help?


Thanks
Agggie
San Diego
aggie@vitrorobertson.com

You should leave the field dominance at lower. That's standard.

You should *not* be viewing your stills and text on the Canvas. You need to view your work on an external television monitor, or if you absolutely have to, a TV.

The canvas view shows you a resampled picture at an oddball framerate and is missing one field of picture out of two. You can't judge final quality on it. It'stoo damaged.

Koz

Hi Koz

Everything I'm talking about is final.

I have viewed it in the following ways with the same above mentioned results:

From Final Cut to a NTSC Studio Monitor.
From a recorded Mini DV to the NTSC, Television and direct to the computer monitor.
Processed to a DVD via Studio Pro to all monitors above.


I really think I have a bug issue.

Applying the Interlaced filter to video clips set @ LOWER, while the main sequence set to NONE, seems to help. My stills with moves and Type (generated via type 3D or imported from PhotoShop) Look Perfect. The video is better but not perfect. Reversing the setting above keeps stills and type lookingVERY bad.
A definate work around.

Thanks
Aggie

<<<From Final Cut to a NTSC Studio Monitor.>>>

Via some sort of D/A converter.

That's too bad. That means it's a much more serious problem since the actual video seems to be broken.

Are we talking about the "Deinterlace" filter, or actually trying to reverse the progression of the television fields?

Deinterlace is an interesting "get out of jail" card because it obliterates the difference between the two television fields. Lots of motion problems vanish when you do that. It's not problem-free however, because all three versions; upper, lower, and both damage the image a little.

Did you import your Photoshop work at the size you wanted--720:480--or are you forcing FCP to blow them up or change the aspect ratio? Are you applying the half-pixel gaussian blur to the images? that can solve a number of "ratty graphic" problems.

You're on your own with Type 3D. I have no idea how that works.

This is where somebody else jumps in and carries you off into the sunset.

Koz

Yes, the files in PS are set up using the preset DV Canvas.

Everything runs through a Sony DSR-45.

This problem only started happening on the upgrade from 4 to 5.

Yes the Deinterlace filter is a life saver but again, a work around...Do you know who I can contact at Apple for a bug report?

Type 3D is 100 times better than the defauly FCP type tool.

Thanks
Koz

Aggie

I've noticed the exact same problem - mostly with FCP's type tool with field dominance set to lower. So it's not just you.