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  Film to tape to web

  Posted by Xavier Paredes on October 2, 2010 at 3:15 am

  Dear Colleagues,

  Wondering if someone has done this before. I’m working on preparing videos for a website. Client has supplied an uncompressed Quicktime that was digitized from a Digital Betacam tape. The content of the Quicktime file is film originated. Since I have to compress this video into a Flash video file for web use, here are my questions:

  1. I’m wondering if it makes any sense to convert the footage back to 24fps. I believe this would be called inverse telecine. Corrrect?
  2. If the above idea makes sense, what would be the best way to do this conversion? I’m hoping to get some feedback about tools and techniques I can use.
  3. What encoding tool do you recommend for creating the Flash file. (I have access to both Mac and PC but would prefer to stay on Mac if possible).
  4. Please let me know if I’m missing anything.

  Thank you very much for any insights!
  Xavier

  Xavier

  Xavier Paredes replied 15 years, 7 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Chad Tingle

  October 2, 2010 at 9:14 am

  [Xavier Paredes] “3. What encoding tool do you recommend for creating the Flash file. (I have access to both Mac and PC but would prefer to stay on Mac if possible).”

  I would try Sorenson Squeeze if you can get your hands on it.

  [Xavier Paredes] “1. I’m wondering if it makes any sense to convert the footage back to 24fps. I believe this would be called inverse telecine. Corrrect?”

  As for converting the footage back to 24FPS I would say don’t worry about it.I don’t think it will give you any extra advantage. Usually most of the programs that compress video for the web will have a de-interlace feature that will remove the interlace lines associated with the 3:2 pulldown from the original film to digibeta transfer.

  Chad Tingle
  Producer/Editor
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  Rafael Amador

  October 2, 2010 at 11:22 am

  For Flash, most people are exporting QT H264. Then you just change the extension “.mov” by “.flv”.
  Rafael

  http://www.nagavideo.com
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  Xavier Paredes

  October 2, 2010 at 3:46 pm

  Hi Chad,

  Thanks for your feedback. I’m not necessarily worried about interlace issues. My desire to convert the footage back to 24fps is for a few reasons:

  1. Produce flash files with the original film frame rate which in my opinion would approximate towards the “film look”.
  2. The difference between 30fps and 24fps is approximately 20% less frames per second. Which in turn means I have 20% less frames to encode which ultimately means I can get better quality “at the same bitrate” than if I had to encode all 30fps.
  3. Isn’t this the best way to tackle this workflow?

  Also, how familiar are you with Sorenson Sqeeze? Please tell me why you are recommending it? Your experiences? Have you compared it’s results with any other flash encoder?

  Thanks!,
  Xavier

  Xavier

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