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media encoder downscale problem
i’m having this problem for some time now and every time i think i may have found it something else comes up. at the video company i’m working for we have decided to make an mpeg2-file (ready for dvd) of every edit we make. so if a client decides at any time he wants a dvd of an edit we made, we can give it without much work. some edits are SD but most of them are HD now. 95% of the time we’re working on Final Cut Pro 7, exporting every definitive version to a Quicktime ‘as is’ to render possible other formats and for safety reasons.
we’ve come up with this mpeg2 way-of-working and we want to use adobe media encoder for this. now every time we want to render an HD quicktime to SD (like SD mpeg2) we get this cray lines. it doesn’t look like fields to me but more like wave of some kind. they look to large to be fields, according to me. i uploaded a picture here:
any solutions? we tried apple compressor as well but and that works for renders started off from fcp but every time we open a quicktime in compressor it messes up the fields, no matter what settings we choose (upper, lower, automatic).
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Yep, that looks like a field issue to me. Looking at the preview, I would say, first try interpreting the problem footage as progressive in your project panel and try exporting as progressive.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
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Thanks for the reply.
OK, it might be a field issue but it has been shot AND edited as interlaced. is there no way to keep that interlacing?
this edit came straight out of fcp. so there’s no ‘interpret footage’ there. media encoder also doesn’t have the option, which could be of use to an encode program i think. so if i need to interpret it by premiere pro as progressive i’ll add another step to my workflow and i’m losing my fields as well. don’t get me wrong: it IS already a solution i didn’t come up with but i’d like the best way to do this, since we will keep this way of working for the next few years.
i didn’t find any threads about media encoder not being able to downscale in a proper way, does anyone have this problem besides us?
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