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HD 1080I quality and settings
Hey all,
Ok, like many I’m new to HD so here goes.
We’ve been shooting with the Panasonic HVX200. I had no control to any settings in the filming process but it rendered the clips using that DVCpro50 codec, 1080i, 24 p which of course I couldn’t read on my Windows Machine (DVC Pro50 codec). So having to hurry while out of town and many many problems I re-rendered the footage at the same rate and comp size from Final Cut onto an external Hard Drive which I hurried and got just for this. Well it wouldn’t let me render clips over 4 gigs….don’t know why I’m guessing something with the HD formatting.
Well now I’m home and trying to get this show open done and the footage looks like poop in AE. A lot of it is aliased…massive lines in the movement (flags flying). There are lines looking to be scan lines or fields. I don’t really know. This is a bit new to me. Also what would a good compressor be for viewing in avi or Mov formats?
Also I’m working on this Sony Vaio laptop…full HD 1080, 2 gigs ram, intel duo core.
One other question. For just previewing purposes….testing what would your recommendations be?
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Ok…well I figured something out. I thought that they shot this 24p. Obviously not. I’m rendering it with the upper field and that cleared up the problem but I still need to hurry up and figure out HD quick!
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The 4GB limit is probably due to the FAT32 formatting of your Hard Drive out of the box. Try moving everything off it, then reformatting it to NTFS.
When working in DVCPROHD, I work in that codec, uncompressed 8-bit, or ProResHQ if I have to use Color. I use a Mac most of the time now.
As you’ve found, 1080i is not 24p. The “i” means “interlaced”.
https://www.adobe.com/designcenter/productionstudio/articles/prs1ip_hdprimer/prs1ip_hdprimer.pdf
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Also make sure that AE is properly interpreting the field order and pixel aspect of your source file. If you click on the source in the project window, the information displayed at the top of the bin, should say something like “separating upper field”.
If it doesn’t, right click on the footage and choose “interpret” and change the settings. AE needs to know the field order and pixel aspect of the source footage to correctly display and work with the footage.You might also consider purchasing the DVCproHD decoder from DVFilm. This will add the ability to read those Quicktime DVCProHD files on your Windows machine. Might save you a lot of time.
https://dvfilm.com/raylight/decoder/index.htmThey also have an encoder/decoder package available:
https://dvfilm.com/raylight/EncoderPro/index.htmErik
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