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Mixing 16:9 and 4:3 clips – some interlaced; some progressive
I have five separate Quicktime movies that all have to be put onto one looping DVD for playback on a widescreen display.
-Some videos are interlaced. Some are progressive.
-Two are 16:9. Three are 4:3.
-Title graphics and stills also have to be added in front of each video.I played around with de-interlacing the interlaced videos, but the result looks awful. Conversely, editing the progressive clips in an interlaced sequence looks bad as well. Then, there’s the whole anamorphic, letter-boxed, pillared issue to deal with.
Because after each video we dip to black (and silence), I am thinking about building each video in its own sequence, then linking the resulting m2vs to play back to back.
Any thoughts on my approach?
Thank you in advance.
Bob
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2 Replies
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There’s no secret sauce that works for all material all the time, however, turning on Frame Controls in Compressor when transcoding from one format to another with different fields will make your result vastly better.
David Roth Weiss
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DONT mix in one timeline.
Compress each with best settings for each
Then in DVD Studio Pro use a story to jump from one to the next. The hardware player will adjust on the fly.
Richard M. Harrington, PMP
Author: From Still to Motion, Video Made on a Mac, Photoshop for Video, Understanding Adobe Photoshop, Final Cut Studio On the Spot and Motion Graphics with Adobe Creative Suite 5 Studio Techniques
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