[Christofer Wetterholm]

Thanks for your input!

I bought the mini yesterday and it seems to be working fine.
I had a little struggle getting the calibration to work properly it seemed like its depending on how the monitor is set up. I have a 1080p lcd “television” and when it was set on “Standard”mode i could not get a good calibration but when i set it on”Dynamic” it worked out quite good.

I also have slower playback when rendering 1080 p and its not fun at all but maybe a update will fix that.
I will try your tip and not scale it in the setings.

But the main thing i am wondering about is how much i can trust the calibrated signal?
I really want to know that what i see on the monitor looks god in broadcast.

/Christofer

[Christofer Wetterholm]

Hello!!
The file is beeing deliverd to tvstatios in sweden, Norway and Denmark.
In Sweden thru a company called Adtoox they want a Anamorpic mpeg 2 file

SD 720*576 interlaced video in full frame 16:9(FHA) compressed with MPEG2 4:2:2 I frame only, compression at 30 Mbps CBR.
They have a preset for episode wich i aply to the rendered 1050*576 QT Master.

In Norway and Denmark i send it thru a company called Adstream and they want

Interlaced QT Blacmagic 8 bit/uncompressed 8bit 4:2:2 with the size of 720*576 16:9 (rectangular pixels)

Or a 720*576 16:9 Interlaced SD MPEG 2 file with ITU-R BT.601-4 videolevels (RGB levels will not be accepted)
And compression set to 50Mbps CBR.

Thanks
/Christofer

[Christofer Wetterholm]

Hmmm!!
I noticed something else today that i dont have a good answer to maybe you do.

I rendered out a QT Animation from the orginial footge and imported it in to the same project as the original. I then alt/doublecllicked the animation version and steped thru 1 second frame by frame.
And everything looked fine with a total of 25 frames.

When i did the same with the original i ended up with 50 frames during the same time(upper field first).
If i go in to the interpret settings and change the fieldorder on the original to OFF the composition windows show separated fields but the framerate is now25fps.

I dont know why this is and it seemes a litle strange. When i look at the preferences for the original file it says it should be 25 fps.

Do you know why this is??

[Christofer Wetterholm]

Thanks!!!
I sent the file to a friend for a second opinion regarding the fieldorder and he said that it looked like the footage was converted from 24 p or 29.97 NTCS to 25 fps pal using interlacing and therefore som frames where interlaced and som progressive….This dosent seems good at all…

Do you think i can use this footage or should i try to get something else from the client?

[Christofer Wetterholm]

I think i stay in interlaced then!! it seems to be the best thing…

I have one more question.

If the footage is upper field first and i want to render out a file for futher processing. Do i have to select Upper field under render settings / Time sampling / Field order?
Or can i skip this step and leave it at its deafult
It deafults to OFF.

I usually work in a 1024 576 compositon and When i am finnished with the spot i render out a QT animation and then import it to a 720 576 widescreen composition that i use to render out the final mpeg for broadcast.
Do i have to select upper field fist in both of the compoditions to get it right?

[Christofer Wetterholm]

The footage i got is pal 1024 576 square pixels
I checked the specs for al the countrys i am going to deliver to and in Norway, Denmark and Finland they want the file to be Upper field first and in Sweden they wanted Lower field first so i called a Tech person at the company and hi said that they didn´t really care wich field was first and that i could deliver a upper field first.

Is it a good idea to deinterlace the footage before i start to work with it? and in that case is there any good soloution to do that?

[Christofer Wetterholm]

Thanks!! I have tryed with compressor and cleaner but with no luck at all.
But yesterday i tried a demo of episode telestream and it seems like it will do the job.
Anyway i hope so