[Christopher Coots]

i ran this through endless encodes on compressor and dvdsp – nothing quite did it. great apps, but definitly not the tools for htis job, i guess.

[Christopher Coots]

thanks, bill.

that’s what i figured. i teted a number of gop structures and found the 15 frame best, in fact. this project was a funny one: depending on the settings selected, one section benefits and one looses. i could not get a uniform output. i ended up suggesting the artist project with his minidv deck for his event and output for him accordingly. aside from the interlace lines, it looks fantastic. he shot on a consumer 3 chip minidv, so the quality followed suit.

quick follow-up questions:

do you have hardware suggestions for both pc and mac? i have avid xpress studio on an hp and the fcp studio on a macbook proo, soon to purchase a desktop for it.

also, tips on future projects of this nature? can they be approached as animation? how about mpeg2 i-frame?

thanks!
cootss