[Alan Langdon]

Apparently, this camera records anamorphically, at 1440×1080, which then stretches back to 1920×1080 inside de system, right?
What is the best workflow to get this footage edited and then put onto miniDV, since the client I am dealing with only accepts material as regular SD DV.

I edited a sequence in full resolution (Apple Intermediate Codec) and then put the HD export onto a DVD via Toast and it looks like the resolution suffered, it looks worse than regular DV footage… Is this because the HD footage is Upper Field?

What would be the best workflow from footage shot on this camera to SD minDV / DVD?

[Alan Langdon]

How DID you figure out it? I can’t seem to find the aspatial interpolation handles for a camera either…

[Alan Langdon]

Johan, did you ever figure this out? I too have found them by accident, but can’t seem to see them anymore (camera spatial interpolation handles, as in AE). It should be SO simple, as you say, but I am missing something here… Please let me know if and how you solved this?

[Alan Langdon]

Johan, did you ever figure this out? I too have found them by accident, but can’t seem to see them anymore (camera spatial interpolation handles, as in AE). It should be SO simple, as you say, but I am missing something here… Please let me know if and how you solved this?

[Alan Langdon]

Thanks!
It also might have been due to a non-intended Show Track comand with no object selected… Thanks for the speedy answer!

[Alan Langdon]

Thanks for the tip. I am struggling a bit with this way of doing it, probably because the axis of all the (dozens) of objects are not exactly where they should be… Another question:

I just found the Look At Camera expression, and this is exactly what I want: I have several text objects distributed in a 3D space, a sort of 3D grid, and as the camera flies around, mving and rotating, I want the text objects to alwyays face the camera. The Look at CAmera seems to be the tool fallen from heaven for me!
BUT, as soon as I apply the expression to one object, as a test, it imediately reverses and faces its BACK to the camera…! What am I doing wrong? The axis of the object is 0,0,0

Thanks!

[Alan Langdon]

I sort of solved by using the software VideoPier, which sees all the files, not only the ones properly stored within a AVCHD file structure. but form now on , I NEVER delet files at the folder level, I always use the camera to delete files, and backup the whole structure. Video Pier I believe requires some installs, a plugin or something, but do a search and you should find the ingredients.
Good luck!”

[Alan Langdon]

Thanks… I hadn’t gotten the Model Tool and Object Tool, the Quickstart seems to speed by them. Thank you for the help.

[Alan Langdon]

I believe ZAX only takes C4D v.5 and below…! I just discovered this too, how lame. I wish (hope) I am wrong… Have you discovered anythign diferent?

[Alan Langdon]

Thanks for the info… Continuing…

So I dropped the master into Quicktime Player Pro. It claims it is 23.98 fps, and 1280×720… This is probably the anamorphic stretching fooling QT. OK.

I brought the master into Compressor, and used the default Best Quality 90 minutes DVD setting, where everything is automatic: fields, frame rate, frame size/proportions, etc. The resulting M2V looks like it is still 23.89 fps, which on my DVD player looks jumpy when there is a pan.

Also, there is a constant flicker, pulsing of the image, noticeable when titles appear or in detailed areas of the image. Maybe an artifact of GOPs or keyframes in the compression? This has always happened with me and Compressor, which leads me to use Toast (!) as a compressor, then I drag the generated m2v’s into DVD Studio Pro.

I would love to love COmpressor, but it yas yet to impress me. Despite all the flexible output modules, the end result almost never loooks good to my eyes.

Should I manually tell Compressor to add pull down to make the DVD 30fps?

And what can I tweak in Compressor to get a non-flickering, crisp image opn the DVD?

Thanks for your help!