Michael Slowe
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Very good thread, one of the best for years, thanks fellows.
I have had brilliant DVD’s from the EX1 but, I have to say, the best were from material shot in the SP mode (HDV)! I then upscaled through Convergent Design’s box to HD and edited in Media 100. That application does a really good downscale and then the DVD is encoded with BitVice (VBR ave. 7.5, formatted in Studio Pro and burnt in Toast. I am sure that BitVice does a far better job in encoding than does Compressor.
Lately, now I’m shooting in the HQ mode, I have experienced all the edge twitter described in the thread. Obviously the camera is too good! I propose now to experiment with the detail turned down to -20 as suggested and hope for improved DVD quality. I have compared the BitVice downscale with that in Media 100 and the latter is visibly superior.
Michael Slowe
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No, you certainly didn’t dream that up, you can copy files from one SXS card to another (slot A to Slot B). I’m away from my camera right now but there is a menu provision called ‘copy’ but I can’t recall where.
Michael Slowe
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Yes,the EX1 does have HD Component out in addition to SDI.
Michael Slowe
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It seems to me that you must have switched the camera to ‘auto’ without realising and the gain has automatically been boosted to compensate for the low light level. You may well have set the gain to -3db but if the auto has been activated it will override your gain setting. There is an ‘auto’ switch quite low down below the iris and focus control switches and you must have pressed it by mistake. Check the on screen symbals for ‘full auto’ or something similar.
Michael Slowe
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“Straight to DVD from a high quality source” is what I do. From an HD timeline exported by reference as a .Mov into BitVice for encoding. But BitVice has to do a downscale since I can only make SD DVD’s at present. My point therefore was that DV tape is still better than the MPEG2 of a DVD. If I have to give someone a DVD so I have to since it is not practical to rely on playing everything through a laptop. There is no doubt that shooting at high quality on the EX1 has made a big difference in the end result whether it’s DVD or DV tape.
Michael Slowe
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Craig, there is no client, I just want to be able to show my films. Projected generally, not by me so the medium has to be either tape (preferable) or DVD. When it can be Blu-Ray that would banish tape.
Michael Slowe
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Wrong Rafael,my DV end product originally shot as HD on the EX1 looks much much better than DV or DVCAM originated material.
Michael Slowe
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Yes but Don, what software will you use to encode the Blu-Ray DVD’s? I have Toast version 9 which will burn them but how do I encode from my HD timeline (Media 100)? I use BitVice currently to do the job in SD, and very good it is but they aren’t able to do Blu-Ray yet.
Michael Slowe
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Yes but Don, as I explained to Craig, I am primarily concerned as to how our finished projects are actually exhibited (shown). We go to a great deal of trouble and expense to get super picture quality and then it’s destroyed by the MPEG2 compression, unless it goes out through the latest upscaling players and super projectors. It’s all very well archiving the original media and even our master edits but what about the audience view? That’s where I’m hoping Blu-Ray comes to the rescue.
Michael Slowe
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Craig, I rather muddled my message but what I was trying to learn was what to actually exhibit (distribute) a film on in addition to archiving. If, as you state, tape is going I was complaining that SD DVD’s are a poor second in quality. Blu-Ray must eventually be the answer if only we could encode them. I appreciate that files can be stored on Blu-Ray but you can’t feed files into a projector or even HD TV can you?
Michael Slowe