[Alex Bond]

Thanks for info

I’ve been trying to avoid having to buy Bit-Vice by changing brightness and contrast settings on Compressor – not perfect but not too bad.

I did export self-contained movies but you still have a choice of compressors – do I just set this to ‘none’ ? Won’t I end up with massive files?

[Alex Bond]

Right…

I’ve gone back to the source footage and checked that (I should have done this first but went and assumed it would be ok). The Video Compressor from Media 100 has done a bad job and the stepping is there on the Quicktime Export (I’m really sorry, I should have checked this earlier).

Looks like I will have to do some work back on Media 100 and get the correct compression settings on that first and start again (armed with the tips you’ve given me which will be helpful I’m sure).

Apologies and thanks for all your help

Alex.

[Alex Bond]

Tried changing the GOP settings but couldn’t see any marked difference. I also increased DVDSP’s settings to “Bit Rate – 6.0” and “Max Bit Rate – 8.0”. Previously I had “Bit Rate” set to 3.2.

I’m using Two Pass VBR with Best Motion Estimation.

[Alex Bond]

damn – i’ve just recompressed it all without trying your new settings you suggested – had to leave it overnight too…I’ll give them a go anyway though.

If you think those settings (the ones i’ve already used) should look good, do you think maybe it’s the compression on DVDSP that’s making the picture look naff?

(Thanks for all your help so far 🙂 )

[Alex Bond]

I had something similar to this but it may be something different…

I thought it was field dominance (obviously not an issue for you here) but when I changed it from Upper to Lower or Automatic the same problem was occurring – jerky footage on certain areas of movement – eg a man walking Left to Right speeded up looked horrendous.

I don’t know what encoder you’re using (you can see below I’m having trouble with Compressor) but if it IS compressor, the problem simply vanished when I re-did the compression to Mpeg 2 by my starting again with fresh settings.

I had customized the vision to alter brightness and contrast and it seems somehow my custom setting got corrupted – when I started again it was fine. The only other thing I changed was the aspect ratio which may have been wrong initially but this wouldn’t affect fields anyway…

G5 2gb Ram
Compressor
Source footage from Media 100 exported as QT video files

Hope this helps

Alex.

[Alex Bond]

I’ve not used Tsunami I’m afraid.

Here are the settings I used:

Vision:

Name: MPEG-2 60min High Quality Encode Widescreen-Copy
Description: 6.8Mbps,2-Pass VBR,16:9
File Extension: m2v
Video Encoder
Format: M2V
Width: 720
Height: 576
Pixel aspect ratio: 0.703
Crop: None
Frame rate: 25
Aspect ratio: 16:9
Field dominance: Top first
Average data rate: 6.8 (Mbps)
2 Pass VBR enabled
Maximum data rate: 7.5 (Mbps)
High quality
Best motion estimation
Open GOP Size: 12, Structure: IBBP
DVD Studio Pro meta-data enabled
Brightness Contrast
Brightness: -12.000000
Contrast: 3.000000
Color Correct Midtones
Red: 10.000000
Green: 10.000000
Blue: 10.000000

Audio:

Name: DVD PCM Audio
Description: AIFF 48Khz,16bit,Stereo
File Extension: aiff
Audio Encoder
Format: QT
Sample Rate: 48.000kHz
Channels: 2
Bits Per Sample: 16
Codec Type: Uncompressed

[Alex Bond]

I used a Variable Bitrate between 7.2 and 8.4 from memory

[Alex Bond]

Pretty much like you suggested then – there’s no mention of only having one or the other though (ie TV screen OR Canvas Viewer showing moving images – are you sure that’s a firewire issue? Surely if I can do it in After Effects it should work on FCP?)

Look out for City at War (with Walter Kronkite) on PBS – we made that 🙂

Alex.

[Alex Bond]

Sorry, setup was in the original post. (G5 Dual 2 with 2 gig of ram using FCP HD (ver1) and AE ver 6.0)

I’m using the break out box just to view FCP on a PAL monitor (I don’t edit using pictures on a computer screen)

Interestingly, After Effects can handle both on screen preview and TV screen preview simultaneously…

didn’t realise Black Adder made it accross the water 🙂

[Alex Bond]

Sorry, setup was in the original post. (G5 Dual 2 with 2 gig of ram using FCP HD (ver1) and AE ver 6.0)

I’m using the break out box just to view FCP on a PAL monitor (I don’t edit using pictures on a computer screen)

Interestingly, After Effects can handle both on screen preview and TV screen preview simultaneously…