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Color Workflow Help

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Ben Norton

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I started the process of learning Color last night. Everything has gone great so far, but I have hit a problem I cannot resolve. When I send the project back to Final Cut, my new sequence has ‘Frame Blending’ turned ‘On’ for all clips and I cannot turn it off (it returns even after unchecking it). This has resulted in some rather nasty ghosting.

Please can someone put me out of my misery and let me know what I did wrong in the workflow.

Thank you

Ben
 
What was your original footage shot on and what is the frame rate of your timeline in fcp? You can find it under sequence settings in fcp.
 
The editing timebase is 25. The footage was shot on a consumer Panasonic.

So I can unpick this a little further....sorry if this is very basic stuff.

It would appear my issue is not with frame blending.

The ghosting is appearing in Color.....

It appears that the de-interlacing option in Color was causing the ghosting. If I render in Color without it, it all appears fine. It was strange because the footage appeared de-interlaced in the Color preview (so I selected Deinterlace Preview & Deinterlace Render in Color) - If I delselect Deinterlace render then all appears good - I guess FCP handles the preview better.

Will Render all again and keep my fingers crossed. Is this logical?
 
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When ever I am working with interlace footage and send it into Color I have to deinterlace it first in fcp or After Effects then send it to Color. Color for some reason makes all the footage "ghost". I am glad you figured out your work around. If anybody else has any suggestions on the subject let us know.
 
If it is interlaced footage, why would you deinterlace it at that stage anyway?

Deinterlace when rendering out for delivery, or before working on it for a composite or something, but would be a waste to deinterlace already interlaced footage at the grading stage in most cases.
 
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