digitizing dilemma

hey

I am having some trouble with digitizing. I shot my footage on a sony z1 in HDV but have the camera set to down convert. I am using FCP 5.1. on a 12inch powerbook G4 mac OSX 10.4.11, I have set all my capture settings to DV PAL 48hrz anamorphic. The trouble is when i capture the footage it looks all jagged and interlaced. When i play it through the camera and look at it through the viewfinder its perfect and in high quality. I know if i put a de-interlace effect on the footage it will fix the problem but it i want it to be as high quality as possible and de-interlacing lowers the quality and softens the picture.

I have gone through all the settings and cant think of any reason this should be happening.

Any help would be very much appreicated

Kind Regards

Aine

Interlaced footage will look, well, interlaced when you play it back on a progressive monitor not designed to properly display interlaced footage (like your computer monitor). If you hook your computer up to a broadcast, CRT monitor and watch it on that it will not look interlaced.


-A

hey, thanks for the quick reply! just wondering then, what if the footage i am editing is for the internet, so people will only watch it on their computers, Do i have to de-interlace?

Thanks

Yes!

It's always a good idea to de-interlace interlaced footage when creating a quicktime for the web.

hey,

thats great, thanks for the help!

Aine