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What’s the best way to deinterlace in Final Cut Pro?

May 5, 2011 at 4:45 pm in editing, post production by Josh Mellicker · Leave a Comment »

Interlacing looks bad on a computer screen. Even if your footage is progressive, if you’re editing in an interlaced timeline, elements like motion keyframing and transitions will still be interlaced. Let’s set up a deinterlaced Master Sequence to get the best possible quality.

1. First, right-click in your Browser and create a new Sequence.

2. Name it “Master”.

3. Open the “Master” Sequence and drag your edit Sequence into it.

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How do I export a high quality movie from Final Cut Pro 7 or Express?

Mar 3, 2011 at 4:09 am in DVD, editing, web video by Josh Mellicker · 104 Comments »

How do I export a high quality movie from Final Cut Pro 7 or Express?

Once you’re finished with your edit, how should you export?

Well, it depends. Here are three methods:

METHOD #1. Reference movie

If you want to export a temporary movie as quickly as possible, export a reference movie.

1. File > Export > Quicktime Movie

2. UNcheck “Make Self-Contained”

Pros:

  • Fastest export
  • The file size is small – it only contains audio and pointers to  [read more →]
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What just happened to video on the web?

Aug 13, 2008 at 8:00 pm in digital video news, dvcTV, editing, web video by . · 5 Comments »

What just happened to video on the web?

We are extremely excited to announce that DV Kitchen, the ultimate solution for publishing professional quality video on the web, is available immediately!

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DV Kitchen’s primary focus is encoding and uploading broadcast quality, internet-friendly-bandwidth video to a website, blog, forum, or for a video podcast. You can import movies, encode them, and upload them in as  [read more →]

Let’s talk about mice teeth

Aug 12, 2008 at 4:39 pm in broadcast, digital video news by Josh Mellicker · 6 Comments »

We have had a lot of questions on our forums about interlaced video, so I thought I would write a series of articles to clear everything up once and for all!

Where did interlacing come from?

Back in the day, when me and my buddies were developing broadcast television, we were going to model it on film, which took a sequence of photos of reality, so, if a blue circle was moving from left to right, two consecutive frames  [read more →]