Sequence Settings

[Kevin Monahan]

James, the quality will be fine. Just monitor the video on a proper NTSC monitor. Don’t have one? Set the Canvas to 100% precisely and you’ll see the final quality.

Kevin Monahan
60 Blu-ray Templates for Final Cut Studio 2009
http://www.fcpworld.com
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro

[Andrew Kimery]

The Wii is a pain in the butt to capture from because it strays from broadcast standards (and capturing in DV doesn’t help out the situation either). We send 16×9 480p out of Wii into a scan converter that embeds that 480p signal into a 720p signal (we don’t up convert so it’s a 16×9 image in the middle w/black borders on all four sides), capture in 720p and then edit in a custom DV50 16×9, progressive timeline. When we resize the 720p footage to 100% it fills up the 16×9 SD frame (well, almost fills up the frame) and having it progressive instead of interlaced makes a world of difference in terms of quality.

If your footage is going to be played back on a TV then your only option is to zoom in. If it’s for the web you can edit w/the black bars in FCP and just crop them off w/Compressor (or whatever program you use to compress for the web).

-Andrew

3.2GHz 8-core, FCP 6.0.4, 10.5.5
Blackmagic Multibridge Eclipse (6.8.1)

[James Doritan]

I’m using a Blackmagic Intensity Pro card and I’m using a component cable from the Wii. Problem is apparently you can’t capture the 480p from the Wii via the card so I’ve had to opt for NTSC. Do you know any way around this?

[Andrew Kimery]

AFAIK no I/O equipment will handle 480p as it’s a not a standard format. That’s why we use the scan converter to take the 480p and convert it into something broadcast equipment will like (in our case 720p). The down side is the scan converter we use (Barco Image Pro HD) is around $8k. There might be cheaper options out there, but this is the only one I’ve used.

-Andrew

3.2GHz 8-core, FCP 6.0.4, 10.5.5
Blackmagic Multibridge Eclipse (6.8.1)