Bill Stephan
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PAL DVD encodes are 720×576@25frames interlaced. Progressive footage will look fine when encoded, since both fields of each frame will contain the same image information.
Before you spend money for another encoder, check your encoding settings in Compressor. Two settings affect encoding quality — one is “motion estimation” and I forget what the other is called (haven’t been in Compressor for awhile). The encoding process will take a lot longer, but it should be noticeably better. Test using a short video.
The default settings in Compressor produce a quick and mediocre encode.
Bill Stephan
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Not sure if this is causing your problem, but are you adding a layer, channel or adjustment layer? If you do anything that the JPEG format does not support, Photoshop will try to save in its own format.
Bill Stephan
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USA Studios
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Jeff,
PAL DVD should be encoded as upper field.
Bill Stephan
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USA Studios
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Ole,
Please note that a “24P” DVD is actually an NTSC DVD with the redundant fields flagged in the encode so that the DVD player can output 24P if the display can accept that format. Also, because NTSC is 29.97fps, the “24P” actually plays at 23.976P.
Beware that the NTSC/PAL issue has not gone away entirely. My clients in Europe tell me that compatibility with NTSC DVD on PAL players and TVs is about 75-80%.
It is a standard feature of NTSC DVD players to strip 3:2 pulldown, but I do not know how (or if) PAL DVD players handle these discs. I have dual-standard DVD players in-house, and these play the 24P DVDs correctly; but I have not tested on a PAL-only DVD player.
Please test thoroughly before proceeding with a big release involving PAL countries in order to avoid unexpected playback issues.
Bill Stephan
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USA Studios
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Ole,
I’m working on a similar project right now. Downconvert your 1080/23.976P HD to NTSC by whatever high quality method available. The key to making this work is to encode the NTSC using an advanced encoder that has IVT – Inverse Telecine, which flags the unneeded field in the 3:2 pulldown. The DVD player can output 24P from an IVT encode if it is connected to a display that supports 24P video, otherwise it outputs standard NTSC with 3:2 pulldown. (Note that there is no support for a 24P video stream in DVD.)
AME and Compressor do not have IVT capability. We use a Sonic SD-2000 encoder.
Bill Stephan
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USA Studios
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Lowering the gamma a notch or two and increasing vibrance would give you most of the look of Kodachrome.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
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I never tried this, but what happens if you turn-off the green & blue channels and then export?
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
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Shelby,
Regardless of the fact that you are using the pen tool, Photoshop creates images using pixels, not vectors. That is why you see the antialiasing on the curves and diagonal lines.
If you drew the same artwork in Illustrator, you would not see the problem. Illustrator creates artwork solely using points, lines and vectors, so there are no pixels to cause artifacts.
You can lessen the issues you see in Photoshop by drawing in a larger or higher-resolution document. More pixels or more dpi will result in smoother curves and diagonals.
Bill Stephan
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USA Studios
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Adult female actors usually do the voice-over work where a child’s voice is required.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
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Kirsten,
The easiest way to do this is using After Effects. Import your ProRes files, then in “Make Movie” set up an image sequence export with the specs you require. Each frame will be created with the file name you specify plus a sequence number (0001, 0002, etc.). When finished setting up each ProRes file, the render window will batch render everything.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City