[Abigail Child]

For Rotterdam, a famous weeklong film festival, I did exactly that:
made a 1080i (29.97) timeline for my HD version. This solved nothing in terms of frame/pixil quality but will allow for the double screens (inside my film) to be projected full frame. Looks pretty good in appleprores HQ. However looks nothing like the quality of the tifs raised to highest they are: ie Pal quality. I keep wavering between going back to the 24p which would mean not only a “matchback” but also a new length of shots/film, OR just making 29.97 but at Pal quality so I don’t lose it. The film is shot on l6mm and that’s the gorgeousness I am trying to recover.

thanks all!

[Abigail Child]

hmmm possible and i read somewhere that conversion houses were better than using fcp to make the conversion. any opinions on that? Some one else suggested what i have reprinted below.

However both suggestions I believe (?) miss the point that the 24p, higher resolution tifs, are not being utilized. Just converting the SD version will get it to HD but not improve quality…or will it?

here is what someone else suggested:

finish and render your standard def segments out in complete form in standard def.

Convert this SD file to “pillared” 4:2:2 SD HD *after* it looks and sounds perfect in SD exported out of final cut . conversion of the file to HD so it will import into a HD segment to export as HD master finished file.

Compressor or QT PRO for your HD 1920 X1080p mastering resolution conversion of SD finished file.

stick with progressive P or I interlaced for project import and mastering one or the other do not use both( to avoid trouble) for all imported files

keeping with apple pro codecs is good in final cut production world but finishing render codec is for how you are displaying your finished work :Apple pro codecs are not good most digital media players and DVD burning software .Most non production paths do not support Apples pro codecs.

I do not know how you are displaying your work Abby but student /faculty exhibiting media using HD is exported:
MPEG4″ wrapper” in H.264 compression in HD1920 x1080p resolution:

It is what I use alot for Exhibition technology department @MCAD with digital media players (see brite -view media players cheap and small digital playback devices for installation purposes ) in exhibitions.

no more DVDs for exhibition but export a HD master file off your final cut HD project time line.

Blu ray export master file for really stunning detail if playing from blu ray disc or brite view media player…it i will play a blu ray master file file no need to burn to bluray disc with a media player it can play from a digital file from a USB thumb drive. the brite view media player will play and loop digital HD files infinitely AND with optical surround sound if needed too and HDMI output to a digital display for stunning reproduction of your original work.