• Compression Techniques

  Compressor, noise in solid black area

  Posted by Aj Epstein on April 3, 2006 at 8:19 am

  Hi there!

  I’ve been shooting some footage of some rear projected art in a dark room. The composition changes very slowly over many minutes and there are no cuts.

  I’ve got significant amounts of hard edge rectilinear black bordering my image. I have been shooting 30P on a DVX-100, and then bringing into Final Cut Exporting as a self contained quicktime using the DV codec, taking into compressor and exporting to mpeg2 using 2 pass VBR at the highest bit rate possible. I am also applying a slight gamma correction to try and ‘crush’ my blacks.

  I am finding that in the mpeg2’s, my blacks have VERY NOTICEABLE artifacts.

  Can someone suggest a workflow or filter regimen that will allow me to have real solid blacks?

  Is there a primer somewhere online, or a book that offers compression wisdom?

  thanks!

  AJ

  Aj Epstein replied 20 years, 1 month ago 1 Member · 1 Reply
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  Aj Epstein

  April 3, 2006 at 8:21 am

  oh, I should add that I’m running the latest versions of Final Cut Studio, with all the pro-application and OS updates. Dual 2.5 G5 with 1.5GB RAM

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