HD codec medium quality WTF?

[Nicole Haddock]

That’s what all my HPX and HVX clips say too, but they look fine on monitors and in the computer. No panic attack necessary!

[John Fishback]

I believe that is normal for DVCPro HD. I don’t know why.

John

MacPro 8-core 2.8GHz 8 GB RAM OS 10.5.5 QT7.5.5 Kona 3 Dual Cinema 23 ATI Radeon HD 3870, 24″ TV-Logic Monitor, ATTO ExpressSAS R380 RAID Adapter, PDE enclosure with 8-drive 6TB RAID 5
FCS 2 (FCP 6.0.5, Comp 3.0.5, DVDSP 4.2.1, Color 1.0.3)

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[Shane Ross]

It’s normal. No need for worry.

Shane

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[Forrest Love]

I just spoke to my friend, he had clips with the same DVCPROHD 720 clips. When he hit analyze clip it said medium quality but in analyze movie it said most quality. We then compared data rates and they were exactly the same. (5619k/sec 234k/frame) I re ingested the P2 files using the ProResHQ codec and it still says the same DVCPRO HD Med Qual etc. codec in analyze clip/movie. I cannot reshoot any of the material and I am getting hella nervous.

Forrest

[David Roth weiss]

As Shane said, it’s normal, just ignore it and proceed with your edit.

David Roth Weiss
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Los Angeles

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[Forrest Love]

Thanks guys, I truly appreciate your help. I’m sure I will be bothering you guys soon with more questions on this project.

Forrest

[Jeremy Garchow]

The quality slider does not represent the final movie quality.

Your info is bit for bit as you shot it.

Jeremy

[Gary Adcock]

[John Fishback] “I believe that is normal for DVCPro HD. I don’t know why.
“

Correct.
it is “flagged” as medium quality in QT because it is horizontally compressed thin raster @ 8bits

mostly only the full raster uncompressed codecs are flagged as HQ. ( ProRes 444 is an exception)

gary adcock
Studio37
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Post and Production Workflows for the Digitally Inclined
Chicago, IL

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[John Fishback]

Thanks, Gary. That’s good to know.

John

MacPro 8-core 2.8GHz 8 GB RAM OS 10.5.5 QT7.5.5 Kona 3 Dual Cinema 23 ATI Radeon HD 3870, 24″ TV-Logic Monitor, ATTO ExpressSAS R380 RAID Adapter, PDE enclosure with 8-drive 6TB RAID 5
FCS 2 (FCP 6.0.5, Comp 3.0.5, DVDSP 4.2.1, Color 1.0.3)

Pro Tools HD w SYNC IO, Yamaha DM1000, Millennia Media HV-3C, Neumann U87, Schoeps Mk41 mics, Genelec Monitors, PrimaLT ISDN

[Forrest Love]

I was out at my Pops house tonight and I brought the footage on DVD from Compressor with a custom setting (full data rate) to view on the new 55 inch LED tube and it looked awesome. What is weird is that when I transfer the files with either the native setting or ProRes HQ the data rate is still the same.

BTW-Speanking of which my new studio setup is a new dual 8 core 2.26 mac, 12GB RAM 512MB ATI card, 4GB internal storage, 3GB external RAID, AJA LoLA, etc, etc.