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issue rendering HDV to DV (NTSC)
I’m working with (1080/60i) HDV media, which ive captured natively in FCP5.
My first deliverable will be an SD DVD, but I was hoping to use the footage to experiment with an HD DVD later.When I render the HDV media on my DV timeline, I get ratchety video during motion (camera pan or motion in frame).
The HDV displays fine on my camera’s LCD monitor, and even the DV looks ok on my computer monitor, but not on the video monitor. I’ve tried changing the render settings, field order and frame blending options. No satisfaction yet.The problem looks to me like a field issue (a slight ghosting – like I’m seeing two fields simultaniously).
Is there a way to get a smoother video stream for DVD?Thanks,
Tim Taylor
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5 Replies
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Just encode the HDV straight to an SD MPEG stream using Compressor. The cleanest way to do it is just using “Export using Compressor” from the export submenu. There’s no need to transcode it to DV first. It’s slower than other methods, but it’s the best encode.
Jerry
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Yes Tim, avoid to go to DV. Output DV only if youare laying DV clips that don’t have to be rendered, so your images are not recompressed. In the moment you have to render try to export with a higher “integrity” codec.Try to feed Compressor with the best stuff that you can. I film with a DVCam but when I go to export to Compressor, I set my time-line in 10b Uncompress to keep the results of the colour correction and the graphics (normally Animation or so). If you go back to DV your just throving away the most of what you already have got. In your case I would keep all the process in HD.
Salud,
Rafael -
How are you formating it in the DV frame? Is it letterboxed or anamorphic? I had some field isues when I letterboxed my HDV in a DV timeline, but it looked much better when I created a 16:9 DV timeline. When that goes to tape, it is anamorphic. Probably the same for DVD, make 16:9 DVDs and then hope your clients DVD player can deal with it (and that you got all the setting right in DVD Studio Pro to make sure the DVD players know it’s 16:9.)
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I’ll be capturing some second unit footage acquired on a Sone Z1U
this afternoon into my DVX100 (720×480 NTSC), FCPro 4.5HD timeline.I have 5.0 and can install it on a different internal drive for capturing
the HDV footage.Any suggestions on settings for my capture for the project to end up
on an SD NTSC DVD?thnx
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Thanks all!
Staying in HD land until output via compressor for anamorphic DVD worked GREAT!!!
I was a little nervous, since I couldn’t preview my final edit in SD before comitting to about 4 hours of encoding, but having taken the plunge, everything worked out great.I’ve got a simmilar issue to SE Bell: I have a DV alternate angle I want to include on the DVD.
in order to get the resolution/GOP structure right, I’m adding it to my FCP (HDTV 1440) timeline and stretching it to fit.
Then encoding it back to SD.I don’t know if this is the best way to go, but I’ll try anything once.
Thanks again,
Tim
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