Nasty, nasty dv artifacting

[David Jones]

Are you running the Avid uncompressed or at 5.1 DV compression?
As your title says, Nasty DV Artifacting.

[Jus]

Hi there

[David Jones] “Are you running the Avid uncompressed or at 5.1 DV compression?”

Well, according to our import options on the unity we’re importing at dv 25 420 PAL. Whatever compression ratio that is – it’s significant(ly crudulous). Everybody’s footage gets ingested thus. I believe I’m correct in thinking I cant place an uncompressed file onto the Unity. Unity, by nature of the dv pipeline, compresses all the media ingested in the same fashion. I am however, rendering an uncompressed file to another “storage area” prior to importing into Unity and the editors assigning a video id for tx.

It’s not as if I haven’t placed some hard, fast, colourful gfx into Unity before, but this particular combination of sat/desat composition has really yeilded some nasty drawbacks to dv compression that have forced me to rethink the design. Now that is a real limitation.

Sulk

[Jus]

I’m sure it is the culprit. But you’ve given me an idea…

…I will not render a qt.mov, but a targa seq, and take a look at how it imports them.
And then I will also try rendering to the avid codec, and “dragging over” a file, rather than importing.

Thanks

Justin