Bill Stephan
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Take a frame grab of the desired image in your edit system (assuming that you still have the assets before encoding).
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City -
If your source was originally 23.98fps, you need to detelecine (3:2 pulldown removal), not deinterlace.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City -
Regarding issue #2, there is a setting within the capture settings to digitize one frame only of video. Do you have that checked?
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City -
The Windows permissions for your folder might be set to read-only, or you might not have sufficient permission from your Windows log-in to write to the folder. Sometimes these permissions can become scrambled by themselves. You need an administrator to fix the permissions in Windows control panel.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
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1. Make sure you are on the correct machine control protocol for your HDCAM-SR (there are seperate ones for 1080i and 1080/24P editing). Sometimes they don’t auto detect correctly.
2. Try outputing with the servo ref on the VTR set to input video. (It should normally stay on Auto.) It might get you going if you have a weird reference problem. Don’t use External unless you have a specific reason for doing so.
3. Make sure that the VTR is set for HD reference (not SD) in the setup menu.
4. Open Video Output tool and check that the reference button is set to Tri-Level (not blank or Reference). Also make sure the green light is lit in Digital Cut tool.
5. You might be cutting into a basic with bad time code or with a skip in the time code. (HDCAM can do this if there’s enough gunk built-up on certain guides or if there’s a misalignment in the tape path.)
These should cover most of the weird output issues.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City -
I like to use workspaces to jump in and out of the color corrector. Either use the workspaces as they come set-up in Avid, or change them to your liking and save.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City -
When you set a GPRM or SPRM value from a menu button, you need to do two things: (1.) Set the desired value into the proper register, and (2.) Jump somewhere else that makes sense (for example, jump to the beginning of the program). It sounds as if you did the first but not the second, especially since a cell command can hold only one command.
The solution is to jump somewhere you can place more than one command, such as the pre-command area of a dummy PGC.
You should be able to make this work for almost all DVD players.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City -
Concerning issue #1, you can export “601” levels (RGB 16-235) or RGB levels (RGB 0-255) from Avid. It sound like the people getting the Quicktime want the latter, although most software can import either if you set it correctly.
On the other issues, if they indeed took a low-res file and transcoded it to an uncompressed QT file, all the artifacts and interlacing issues will be “baked-in”, and you will not be able to undo them.
Maybe you should get the original file and fix it yourself.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City -
Did you encode the MPEG-2 as HD or as PAL size? PAL DVD uses MPEG-2 @ 720×576 pixels at 25fps. It sounds as if Encore is trying to downsize HD assets.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City -
Some brands and models of settop DVD recorders force you to have the cheesy menu. A few Panasonic models do allow you to burn a DVD without any menu.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City