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Problem exporting a 720P timeline to SD DVD using Compressor
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[Mike Krause] “Do one pass to down-convert your footage, do another pass to compress your footage.”
while that will yield some better quality, down-converting 720P still doesn’t look very good with high frequency detail or angled lines.
Even with the kona down converting in hardware its not perfect, but looks a lot better than anything compressor can do.
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[Ben Seyller] “I could shoot in any resolution if there is one that would make downconverting to SD easier or look better. Do you have a suggestion?”
1080i
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[Ben Seyller] “I originally started using ProRes 422 LT because folks said that it would be less hardware intensive for processing edits in the timeline…in other words, it would be a good balance between quality and processing power needed.”
This is a big mistake.
The most compressed the format, the more burden for the processor.
You have to make much more calculations to compress a picture1/10 than to do it 1/5 (While keeping the quality, of course).
I don’t work with Prores Proxy, neither ProresLT. I think you need good reasons to use those Prores flavors.
Normally I use Prores when transcoding 8b stuff (XDCAM, HDV, DV, H264,..) by software.
For any other process (capturing, whenever there is rendering),.. I use Prores HQ.
Prores 444, when you need a good Alpha channel, or whenever you have to jump from application to application that supports 16/32b rendering.
Rafael
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