[Charles Cunliffe]

Thanks for the details, I was surprised that exporting the whole thing as a 1080i film, worked fairly well. I will consider all you have suggested. In answer to your last question, I hired an editor early in the project who helped me set up the work flow, who obviously was not experienced with the problems we were creating, he later had to resign when he got a new job, I have had to work it out for myself and as I said this was my first doc with mixed footage.

Thanks for the help…
I run the nvidia 285gefroce video card, and have never been able to resolve, with either Adobe or Nvidia the recurring open gl driver crashes when editing,or rendering, they are all over the forums and seems to be no solution.

[Charles Cunliffe]

OKay, I always agree that dynamic link is a waste of time, never good results.
I shot interviews 1080P 30 fps on a 7dcannon, all my timelines are 720P 30fps and we have some avi converted 8mm footage in the film, which is working okay and we have some Std Def interlaced 29.97 footage in the film.

To get a good looking blue ray I had tried exporting an h.254 blue ray setting out of media encoder, that was 720p 23.976 frame rate, looked alright but my interviews were occasionally jumpy looking that’s when I read that using frame blending might help, so I tried it,,,took all night to export the entire film this way and then I burned that, noticing that the Std Def footage is looking jumpy….

I am thinking I may have to do the following……..
tell me if im nuts……
export sd footage, changing it to progressive, 30fps, replace it in the project, then take the whole damn thing into after effects and convert it to 23.976……

otherwise I may replace the sd footage that looks jumpy only and try to burn the whole movie as one export, but I am still inclined then to use frame blending cause it looked SO MUCH Better than anything else I tried.

your patience is appreciated……This is my first feature doc, it’s a great little film, winning some nice awards, just want a better burn for theater release on the 18th of May

[Charles Cunliffe]

Just so you know, that is what I have always done in the past ( through dynamic link) and the Blu Ray looked bad this time, no diff than Std Def, until I exported each chapter individually as h.264 files with frame blending…..but ill try again….

[Charles Cunliffe]

Don’t give up on me Daniel , I am really stuck here…..

Also I did not truly understand your first post….BD = Blue Ray?
Does that mean those are the only shooting and editing standards I can use for blue ray burning later?

[Charles Cunliffe]

BTW the H.264 with frame blending created a pretty good looking blue ray, I just dont know where in the process the std def video went to crap?

[Charles Cunliffe]

not too helpful now that I have 2 1/2 years on the film. I asked a pro to set it up and he did it wrong so now I have to clean up the mess….Any helpful suggestions….?

Please do help me on this one…..
when I author a blue ray in Encore, by importing each chapter as a timeline and then link them all together to play one after the other, I get a small play button showing on the screen as the movie plays…..

If I import them as assets and try and drag them into one timeline to get rid of the silly chapter play button issue, the audio gets off by 1 second.

Im going nuts and running out of time….

Love to chat with you about a mercury playback. open gl issue later.

[Charles Cunliffe]

670 is not on the list….will it work without tweeking?

[Charles Cunliffe]

IS the GXT 670 better than my geforce285 card?
One site called mine an “end of life” card, does that mean its good or extinct?

[Charles Cunliffe]

Please send me the specs of what it is and confirm the Mercury Playback compatibiilty.
I am going to negotiate a new card from Polywell later today…..
Thanks

[Charles Cunliffe]

Nope no way….Locked again

Nvidia Open GL driver detected a problem with display driver and is unable to continue. Application must close…..Error code 3.

I will never get this film completed……