Chris Babbitt
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Mick,
I’ve been experimenting as well, and I can’t seem to come up with settings for an SD sequence that work, other than NTSC-DV. Would you mind sharing your sequence settings?
I’m finding, so far, that for 1080i projects, I’m getting the best result just editing the native XDCAM format and then exporting to a Pro-Res SD file and taking that into Compressor. You don’t have to render first. For 720p or 1080p projects, I get excellent quality just exporting a Quicktime reference movie of the sequence and taking that into Compressor. It’s less steps, but may be slower than your method. I’m not sure.
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“Same result, since Compressor is the common denominator and major player in anything that gets rendered or compressed.”
That’s what I’ve always thought, but some others believe that you get better results by downscaling in FCP first. I have to say that I’ve been disappointed in my DVDs (soft image) when taking 1080i XDCAM files into Compressor, so I’m looking for a higher quality method. My 720p (HQ) footage looks great, however, using this method. It’s just the interlaced stuff that I don’t like. In fact, I don’t think it looks as good as my DVDs that were sourced from DVCAM.
I’m wondering if exporting to ProRes SD & checking “High Precision YUV” rendering as Raphael suggests, would yield a better DVD in the end.
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I like your method #3. That makes more sense to me than all the fooling around with a new sequence. I’ll give it a try. Does it give you better results than going directly to Compressor?
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Very funny, Don. DV-NTSC is easy, but I’m looking for something less lossy. Raphael had suggested Pro-Res, but then you have to specify settings, frame size, and everything else, and he was ambiguous. I’ll have to try DVCPro50 as you suggest. Does that give you better results than letting Compressor do the downsizing?
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Raphael,
I’m really confused on this issue. Would you mind sharing your complete settings for your SD sequence, assuming that you are going to keep it as a 16×9 sequence. 720×840 can’t possibly be correct for SD-NTSC.
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I found it. I had the volume icon selected instead of the disk.
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I’m running OS 10.4
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Andrew,
Do you copy and paste the timeline or drop the sequence into the new timeline?
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I’ll bet you a dinner that it’s just a matter of them not knowing how to set up their monitor properly. It was probably the zoom control. I have run into this issue several times with clients. Even the A/V people at the hotels don’t understand this. I had a gig at a Ritz Carlton last year. The client paid top dollar to rent an HD plasma monitor, and the A/V guy at the hotel hooked it up COMPOSITE, and had the image zoomed in and blown up. Had I not been there to correct the problem, my video would have looked just like your client is describing. As far as the laptop is concerned, it could be any one of a number of things, but the bottom line is, computers are just not an optimum way to view video.
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How about transferring to 16 or 32gb USB Thumb drives? Will those work?