I thought you may be able to help me with a problem I'm having...
I shoot footage with my Canon XM-1 DV camcorder in Frame Movie
(or progressive scan) mode. When I import this footage into Adobe
After Effects for fx work, it creates a horrible moire pattern that flickers
on playback/rendering. Have you ever encountered this? It only happens on
Frame Movie Mode (progressive scan), not with normal interlaced footage.
I've tried altering the field dominance between "upper" and "lower" field,
(in After Effects' import preferences) but either setting produces the moire
flicker.
Have you ever encountered this and how did you fix it?
Running a Mac G4 Dual 450,
OS 9,
AE V4.0
Daniel - the only benefit to shooting in a progressive sceen mode is for web & CD-Rom video where delivery is a computer monitor and not a TV screen. As soon as you introduce fields you should be thinking about TV delivery, as the image gets interlaced. There is no apparent advantage taking the progressive route unless it stays progressive all the way through to delivery.
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Steven Hood
[ O U T L A W : S D G ]
But it looks better!
Better, in so much as it flickers, you mean?
;)
Bob C
A-Ha - yes well there is that!
Thanks Bob.
See if I shoot a short film (which is why I bought the camera at all) I want it to look like film, not interlaced video.
Shooting in prog. scan gives this nicely. And I can work with it in iMovie, edit, add sound, export - all still looking great!
BUT!!!!!
The problem is any footage I put through After Effects to do complex FX work, introduces the said (bad) flicker.
I'm sure it's a field problem, AE import preferences or something.