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Lower 3d and squished video…
Good Morning!
We recently did a 1:00 holiday greeting for our boss (you know, THE boss) and we really wanted to do a good job (obviously!).
We shot it on a Pannie SDX 900 set to 30p and DVCPro 25, and edited it in XPress Pro 5.0. It was encoded out of Avid as a QT reference, into Sorenson and then to Reel DVD to send to a DVD.
When we checked the DVD, the entire picture would horizontally compress about 10 lines when the lwr3d came up. It’s almost like an out of time CG in a linear suite. I checked the QT reference and the compression was there, meaning it came out the Avid like that (it doesn’t happen when playing back in the timeline).
Avid XPress Pro 5.2 w/ Mojo
2gb ram
Sony DVD recorderAnybody?
thanks,
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2 Replies
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I’ve had a similar problem and found that if I use a QT Movie instead of a Reverence it works better. Also, when making the QT Movie use custom settings of 720 x 480 (not 486) when going to DVD. That helps with the “Jump” you sometimes get in gfx supers. Sorenson doesn’t seem to like QT Reference, especially if there are many efx in the timeline. We have started using procoder for compression and it is much better. Hope this helps.
Duane
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I have just noticed this problem also.
If I have just plain text for the lower third, there doesn’t seem to be a problem, but when I use a logo, which is a matte key then the video frames squish (for lack of a better word) about 10 lines.
This is with the QT reference, as well as, with the encoded QT movie(sorenson) or WMV.
I haven’t tried DVD (mpeg 2) yet and fortunately we have a hardware encoder for that task.
I originally thought that the avid rendered the effect and that was where it was squished but even in unrendered output (QT ref) the problem still exists.
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