Problems Exporting 1920×1080 From HDV 1080i60

[Chris Tompkins]

Why not transfer the proj. to a local drive and open – then export file to local drive and THEN, drop it onto whatever drive?

Chris

Chris Tompkins
Video Atlanta

[Dan Obrien]

Try exporting with Export>Quicktime movie using “current settings” and see if you have the same issues. The resulting quicktime will indeed be 1920×1080 29.97. You can double check this by opening the mov in quicktime and hitting “command-i” to get the movie information. Unless 8-bit uncompressed is required, I would use this setting.

The USB drive probably isn’t the fastest place to store your media, but I don’t think it would cause sync issues.

Dan

[David Roth weiss]

Eric,

You can’t playback an 8-bit HD file off anything short of a raid without dropping frames, much less a USB drive. It’s just that simple.

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[Eric Pautsch]

Thanks guys! I’m not worried about playback but I can see those jump cuts as I slowing frame through the file I have so I know they are there. This is the second time around on this export. Thought the first time was just some hiccup. I’m at the client’s office who as no space left on his system. My thoughts were to export to a USB 2.0 and take it back to my place to encode.

This is to be encoded for Blu Ray so I need a 1920×1080 file uncompressed. If I export out as “current settings” wont the file still be HDV 1080i60 1440×1080??

[Eric Pautsch]

Ok…I’m a dumbass! The export needs to be 1920×1080 NDFTC, not 29.97. Thanks!

[David Roth weiss]

If I were you, I would change the compressor in Sequence>>Settings to ProRes, re-render, then export a self contained QT using Quicktime Movie at current settings. The file will be ProRes, will export very fast, and although it will be anamorphic 1440×1080, that should not present an issue when encoding for BluRay.

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[Eric Pautsch]

Thanks…Yeah….I thought of that but Im going to keep the status duo on blu ray 🙂 I think I only know of 2 titles that are 1440×1080. My new export looks fine now.

[David Roth weiss]

You didn’t mention how you were planning to encode, but whether your QT is anamorphic or full raster should make no difference when encoding, it’s going to be 1920×1080 no matter what.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

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[Eric Pautsch]

I know…call me crazy! I’ve never given a client a 1440 encode and I never will at this point. I’m using Cinevision for the encoding. 1440 is perfectly legal but I’ll stick with 1920×1080. Besides my menu designs will need to be different….Im a creature of habit. 🙂

[Walter Biscardi]

Sorry I missed this thread Eric, but it looks like you’re in good shape now. I’m sure I’ll be asking YOU a lot of questions shortly as we ramp up our DoStudio work.

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Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.

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