Em Malden
February 20th, 2015, 05:59 AM
Hi folks -
I guess my question is mainly - 25i or 50i?
Am working in the UK on a Mac Pro suite with 10.7 OS and working in FCP 7. I'm having a weird issue getting Sony F5 footage into FCP 7 - the footage has been shot in XDCAM format to make it easier for us this end and I have been using Adobe Media Encoder CC 2014 to convert all MXF clips to ProRes 422 for the edit.
My issues is: XDCAM native format is 1920 x 1080 50i - I have been converting to ProRes 25i - which seems fine in FCP 7 until you load it into the viewer and then it looks dreadful (see photo hopefully attached) however on timeline /Canvas and on broadcast monitor it seems fine.
I went back to AME and converted to ProRes 50i and so it comes in FCP 7 with 50 frames instead of 25 - the footage looks better across viewer, canvas and monitor (freeze frame is less 'interlacey' on monitor) but my timeline is saying in needs rendering- presumably due to the 50 fps.
Which one should I be using?! They both look fine on the monitor - although 50i looks better on freeze as mentioned. All my footage is now at ProRes 25i and I have 8 rolls of media. Ideally I'd like to not have to redo and rename all of these but as it's for broadcast, it's got to be right.
Any help much appreciated!
Thanks in advance
Em
I guess my question is mainly - 25i or 50i?
Am working in the UK on a Mac Pro suite with 10.7 OS and working in FCP 7. I'm having a weird issue getting Sony F5 footage into FCP 7 - the footage has been shot in XDCAM format to make it easier for us this end and I have been using Adobe Media Encoder CC 2014 to convert all MXF clips to ProRes 422 for the edit.
My issues is: XDCAM native format is 1920 x 1080 50i - I have been converting to ProRes 25i - which seems fine in FCP 7 until you load it into the viewer and then it looks dreadful (see photo hopefully attached) however on timeline /Canvas and on broadcast monitor it seems fine.
I went back to AME and converted to ProRes 50i and so it comes in FCP 7 with 50 frames instead of 25 - the footage looks better across viewer, canvas and monitor (freeze frame is less 'interlacey' on monitor) but my timeline is saying in needs rendering- presumably due to the 50 fps.
Which one should I be using?! They both look fine on the monitor - although 50i looks better on freeze as mentioned. All my footage is now at ProRes 25i and I have 8 rolls of media. Ideally I'd like to not have to redo and rename all of these but as it's for broadcast, it's got to be right.
Any help much appreciated!
Thanks in advance
Em