[Bryce Mcnamara]

Hi Dave

I’ve been having similar issues with moire/shimmering patterns that are highly visible on DVD output. I’m working with HDV 1080i footage that has been dropped into a DV PAL Anamorphic timeline. Would this method with AFX work with a self-contained DV PAL quicktime file as it does with HD?

I’m very interested to try this out to see if it eliminates some of the horrid shimmering effects that I’ve noticed in the finer details; especially when there are pans over trees and movement in wide shots.

Also note, I don’t have any hardware solutions to work with, so I’m limited to fixing this issue with software.

Thanks!

Bryce
Melbourne

[Bryce Mcnamara]

Hi there,

Excuse me – the Windows version is XP, and I tried the DVD using: VLC, Windows Media Player Classic, and WMP (more recent version).

Thanks!

Bryce

[Bryce Mcnamara]

Thanks for the help! That clarified quite a bit for me. I’ll give that a shot when the project gets underway and see how it works out.

I’ve heard that in some cases the slight increase in pitch is negligible; but I guess I’ll have to experience this myself and then decide how to handle the audio.

Thanks again,

Bryce
Melbourne, Australia

[Bryce Mcnamara]

Hi Michael,

The footage is HDV 720p24 (23.976 fps), so yeah it’s not PAL, but I’m going to have to convert it to both PAL and NTSC versions before authoring the respective DVDs.

I would appreciate it if you could clarify the following for me:

Could I do these two conversions easily enough in Compressor?

What I am planning on doing is using the Best Quality 90 Minute setting and then altering the ‘Video Format’ setting to PAL and NTSC for each version (although I see that it’s automatically set to NTSC when at 23.976 fps, and if I then alter it to PAL and back to NTSC it changes to 29.97).

I’ll then bring each of those versions into its respective DVDSP project for authoring.

If you could shed any light on this method, or suggest a better way, that would be great.

Thanks in advance!

Bryce

[Bryce Mcnamara]

Hey Eric

Wow, that seems so straight forward and obvious, I can’t believe I didn’t think of that before! Thanks for the clarity.

The DVD I saw this on was ‘House of 1000 Corpses’ directed by Rob Zombie. Really interesting DVD design.

Thanks for the help!

Bryce

[Bryce Mcnamara]

Thanks Todd,

That really cleared up a lot for me and those links were very helpful. If I could just ask something in addition:

Usually when I work with graphics in AE, I tend to create in AE and then render the animation out as a Photo-Jpeg (or Animation if exporting Alpha) and then I import that Photo-Jpeg file into a DV PAL FCP timeline.

Firstly, do you see this method as problematic at all – it has been working well for me thus far; however, I’m wondering if using DV PAL footage in an AE comp that is then rendered out as Photo-Jpeg and re-imported into a DV PAL timeline would possibly present any problems?

Also – If I use DV PAL footage in an AE comp and render out as Photo-Jpeg/Animation – would I still need to change the field order settings to lower-field first to match the *final* FCP output?

I really appreciate your helping me grasp this issue!

Regards
Bryce

[Bryce Mcnamara]

I’ve recently had this same initial issue with Compressor while trying to compress using the 90 minute DVD setting. I’ve tried quite a few of the suggestions mentioned here but to no avail. Finally I found a nifty little piece of software that sorted out this issue for me.

Check out the following: https://www.digitalrebellion.com/compressor_repair.htm

Cheers,
Bryce

Melbourne, Australia