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dvcpro hd to high quality avi
I have a sequence of DVCPRO HD 1080i60 @23.98 (pulldown by Raylight). I need to export a high quality AVI to a post house. They are doing further compressions, so they asked for the highest quality AVI I could make, preferably @23.98psf.
Between FCP (Quicktime Conversion) and Compressor, the second gives better results. On Compressor I choose Quicktime Export Components (then avi w/ no compression). I get a clip of 1280×1080 (original dvcprohd format) which has apparently the same quality as the original with the exception of some weird pixel movement (which could be due to the fact that it is not stretched to 1920×1080?).
How can I get a 16:9 (1920×1080) avi? I haven’t found any options to that effect on the Compressor settings. The clip has 23.98 fps according to info on QT, how can I be sure to have 23.98psf (and where or how should I check that)?
Any help would be much appreciated.
PMG5 2.3dual; 2.5g ram; osx 10.4.11; FCP 6.0.2; QT 7.4.1(14)
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Quicktime does not do a very good job at making .avi files that PC systems like.
The best option would be to download and install the free 10-bit codecs by Aja or black-magic. Recommend your client do the same, and just export it as 8 or 10-bit uncompressed.
They will have no problem working that file in that format if they have the free codec.
Trying to do it as an .avi will get messy and probably won’t work with the options built into quicktime.
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