IMovie '11/Canon M41 30p Interlacing issue

I just bought a Canon M41 HD camcorder that has a 30p option but has an asterisk and says recorded as 1080/60i (there is no option to record at 720 at all on this model). I imported into iMovie '11 as full resolution and when I use the Share menu to choose 720p it's interlaced/jaggy. How can I do 720p at a good quality without the interlacing?

I haven't been able to solve this issue yet. Can anyone help?

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You shoot 24p, 25p, 30p but iMove 09 treats it as interlace! Why?

If your HD camcorder can shoot “1080p25” (progressive 25fps) or “1080p30” (progressive 30fps), of course you want to shoot using these frame rates. The Canon HV40 and Canon HF S11 are examples of HD camcorders that can shoot progressive video at 25fps (in PAL regions) or at 30fps (in NTSC regions) in addition to “1080i50” or “1080i60.” They can also shoot 24fps.
When you shoot 1080p24, 1080p25, or 1080p30, in most cases progressive video is recorded as interlace video. Both 1080p24 and 1080p30 are recorded as 1080i60 while 1080p25 is recorded as 1080i50.
When iMovie 09 imports this video, it will treat this progressive video as interlaced HD. Unfortunately, iMovie treats interlaced HD badly. If you Stabilize a clip, employ a PIP or Crop, add a Ken Burns effect to a video clip, or use a Wipe or Pseudo-3D transition (such as Cube)—iMovie on-the-fly converts your 1080-line video to 540p (960x540) video. Therefore, all 1080i clips in your movie will lose up to 35% vertical resolution and up to 40% horizontal resolution. This loss of resolution will occur even if you add only one of these effects.
But, what if iMovie didn't do this?
What if iMovie correctly saw progressive HD as progressive HD -- not interlaced HD? This would allow all scaling FX to be used. Moreover, because you ARE shooting progressive HD, NO scaling artifacts would be introduced!
Would this be a benefit to HDV and AVCHD 1080i shooters?
Absolutely! Especially if all this could accomplished without wasting time and image quality recompressing your video.

The Pana 300 is a great camcorder, but I wish it shot 30p. If you want a Cine look you'll have to shoot 24fps rather than the easier to use 30fps.
Anyway, about removing pulldown:
1) You CAN remove 2-3 pulldown. But, it requires a recompresion from AIC to AIC after your clips' AVCHD is converted by iMovie to AIC. This would provide real 1080p24. I call this "TRUE 1080P." But, with a MacBook this might take too long. And, you lose a generation of quality!
2) A better solution is to get iMovie to treat your video as though it has no pulldown and is progressive. I call this "FALSE 1080P" because once 2-3 pulldown is added during recording, the video has BECOME interlaced. (I'll explain about this in my other thread on dealing with 1080i50 and 1080i60.)
PS: The reason I prefer to shoot 1080p30 is because then the goal is to get iMovie to treat 25p/30p video as though it were progressive. I call this "TRUE 1080P" because it really IS progressive.
We know what it is, but iMovie doesn't. And, how can iM since it is recorded as 1080i50 and 1080i60. It's too bad Canon and Panasonic record 25p/30p as interlaced. The neat thing about TRUE 1080P is that after editing as progressive you can export as 1080i or 720p. And, no matter what FX you use you'll never get scaling artifacts!

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Does anyone know if I will be able to use Canon's VIXIA HF S10 Camcorder with iMovie '09 without running into any issues when it comes time to output my video at it's highest resolution?
I ask only because this particular camcorder is Canon's newest consumer model and it boasts 'Effective Pixels' specs of 3264 x 1840!!
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I've Had this camera since it was released. Although I am new to recording and editing with this camera and a mac I can say it seems to me to be pretty easy.
I made this HD film on that camera you can check out on youtube here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkZraGq2RKM
I think it's a great camera. You may find that if your a pro about filming and editing that there can be some issues, but for me at a beginner level I don't really see any. I think that there might be some super HD quality minor transfer grubs that I had read about, but I am unsure what those are nor how they are caused. I think that at the camera's highest recording quality, the imovie interface may show some degraded picture.
I say go out and get the camera, it is amazing. I only wish I knew of a class I could take to teach me of all the details an shooting options.
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Just to aid in the direction you're taking this.
This is an extract from the "Key Features" of the Panasonic standard definition video camera I'm assuming he's been using based on his profile:
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• You may choose from three shooting modes: 24p (24 fps, progressive) for images with the look and motion of film movies, 30p (30 fps, progressive), or standard 60i (60 fps, interlace).
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Hi David,
Thank you very much for your help. Yes, I did render the timeline. Nothing in the sequence was left unrendered. Is the problem that my resolution is too high? Should I diminish the size of the still by 50%?
Picture 1 was scanned using "descreen" filter and picture 2 using Auto Tone only. I used a Canoscan Cannon 8800F scanner. That's as much as I know. I wonder if I did something wrong scanning the image or is there something I should have done in Photoshop prior to bring the still into FCP?
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How to export a sequence with stills (jpg) into a DVD format by using Compressor without having the interlaced issue on the outcome? The stills in the Canvas look crisp but once exported to DVD format, the outcome images look interlaced. How can I best match the crisp look of the high resolution JPGs in time line when exported to DVD?
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Dear Nick,
Thank you, I understand now it is the aspect ratio issue.
Are you suggesting that I should use Photoshop or Graphic Converter to convert the 1024 x 768 to 720 x 480 prior to importing them into FCP seqence?
> Give the DVD authoring software the correct size:
I am using FCP 7.0.3 to create the sequence of images (there has to be specific timing and transitions), which I then export to DVD format by using Compressor.
Do you mean that I should set the FCP timeline sequnece settings to 720 x 480?
Please let me know. Thank you,
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Please forgive me if this has been covered previously.
I have read the "Sending back to FCP from Color**" post, but it's a slightly different problem I have.
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I've cut together a sequence using material I've ripped from a multitude of store-bought DVDs (the project is strictly for personal use only and will not be distributed).
Though the sequence played down fine throughout the entire editing process on my computer, when I created a DVD (using DVDSP 4) and watched it on a set-top player, certain clips would stutter and sort of tremble, particularly where lateral movement was involved. I am confident that this is due to the fact that my source footage must have varying field dominance.
Is there any way to correct this other than using a de-interlace filter which will further degrade the image quality?
The details of my process are as follows:
I ripped my source media using a shareware program called MacTheRipper, which allowed me to demux the DVD streams and get the individual AC3 and M2V files.
Then I used Compressor (2.0.1) to transcode the M2V files to DV NTSC and imported them into FCP-3.
Once editing was complete, I exported the sequence as a self-contained movie file using current settings (FCP-3 does not permit exporting directly to compressor).
THE SELF-CONTAINED MOVIE FILE PLAYS DOWN FINE. Once I use Compressor to create an M2V file, however, the interlacing issues become apparent.
Thanks in advance for your help.

Was all of the footage in your sequence shot with the same camera? With the same settings?
In my project, the problem is occurring because the various clips in my sequence were created with different specs. This is why I am seeing it sporadically throughout. Or so I think.
The De-interlace option is simply a video filter that gives you solid, non-interlaced frames by erasing one field from each frame and interpolating what the now missing information should be. As I understand it, this is used primarily for material that is to be exhibited on the computer. Interlaced media looks pretty bad on a computer monitor, but it's appropriate for a television screen. If you're going to DVD, it's not a good idea to use it.

Interlace issues PLEASE HELP

I've cut together a sequence using material I've ripped from a multitude of store-bought DVDs (the project is strictly for personal use only and will not be distributed).
Though the sequence played down fine throughout the entire editing process on my computer, when I created a DVD (using DVDSP 4) and watched it on a set-top player, certain clips would stutter and sort of tremble, particularly where lateral movement was involved. I am confident that this is due to the fact that my source footage must have varying field dominance.
Is there any way to correct this other than using a de-interlace filter which will further degrade the image quality?
The details of my process are as follows:
I ripped my source media using a shareware program called MacTheRipper, which allowed me to demux the DVD streams and get the individual AC3 and M2V files.
Then I used Compressor (2.0.1) to transcode the M2V files to DV NTSC and imported them into FCP-3.
Once editing was complete, I exported the sequence as a self-contained movie file using current settings (FCP-3 does not permit exporting directly to compressor).
THE SELF-CONTAINED MOVIE FILE PLAYS DOWN FINE. Once I use Compressor to create an M2V file, however, the interlacing issues become apparent.
Thanks in advance for your help.

I think David means put the actual bought DVD in. Talk about it. Put the next DVD in, talk about it. Put the next DVD in, talk about it. This is how I was shown various things. I remember seeing several showreels, animation shorts and so on in a class all on different tapes & DVDs...
Some players (Sony) can be set to auto resume so you could even queue things to some extent!
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