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Onlining media of diverse origin
Hello all,
I am looking for some advice about doing an online of a project using a wide range of media of differing formats. It is a 30 second commercial for American TV created using archive footage. The formats I’ve been given to work with are quite variable (DV, HD etc) and have been compressed with all different types of codecs and so on.
I am working at 1920 x 1080, Apple Pro-res in my FCP timeline currently, although I may resize everything to NTSC aspect dimensions before finishing to tape (it hasnt been made clear as yet what type of tape delivery will be required).
I’m just wondering if anyone can give me any hints and tips for onlining and grading the media to make it look the best and be ‘TV ready’…would people advise de-interlacing everything (there are currently lots of different fields going on across the clips)? Has anyone worked on a project like this with lots of archive material? Any tips for making this look the best it can look? I’ll be making sure everything is broadcast safe, and will play out to tape with a limiter, but is there anything I should watch out for specifically for US TV (I work in the British TV industry)?
Thanks in advance…
Penny
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3 Replies
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Hi there, Penny
I’ve just recently completed a project which had various sources, from DV to Beta to even, wait for it, DVD……. (which was awful). We also had huge interlacing issues. The final was to be shown on a 42″ flat screen in a museum and when I was completing the grade I used a standard broadcast monitor to grade. Everything seemed fine until I actually burnt the DVD and did playback on a HD flatscreen monitor. Disaster. Huge interlacing issues. Flickering, jumping, warping. We tried everything in FCP, shift fields filter, de-interlacing etc etc. Nothing worked. Our final solution was to run the entire Pro Res export through After Effects. Voila. No more stuttering or interlacing issues.
So, my long winded point is…. If you have material that you think may be an issue, test it first on the medium in which the final product will be shown. As a rule I usually work on a progressive timeline anyway even with DV material. If you’re experiencing issues with interlacing it may be worth it to run the clip through After Effects before you start editing rather than do the entire clip later.
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Hey Quintis,
That’s really helpful, thanks very much. Can you tell me what filter you put on the interlaced material in AE? Was it just a standard de-interlace filter?
Cheers,
P
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No filter was needed. I simply brought the material in, placed it in a new composition (dragging the clip onto the composition icon so that a composition is created matching the size of the material) and then rendered out to Pro Res 422 HQ. Somehow that seemed to solve all the issues. No filter needed!
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