Christopher Kinsman
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COW Coins
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Jack, Forgot to mention to play with contrast a few points too. It can help get your blacks back. Have you noticed any xtra noise in your bit vice compressions? Kind Regards, Chris K.
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Anything that’s not rendered won’t export from the edit suite – therefore the force render! Kind Regards, Chris
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Hi Chris, You might just try exporting as a quicktime movie. Your editor will find many differernt compressions to encode from. If quality is the highest importance, use tha animation codec – but remember high quality means high encoding times and a large file. “Video” seems to be a middle of the road solution which delivers good quality and moderate file size. The PC end person can just download a free version of quicktime player and the movie should play just fine on their PC. Best of Luck! Kind Regards, Chris K.
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Hey Jack, You need the transcoder and the v-out. If you look at a post from Floh on Jan 7 under the heading “Floh, Can you confirm” Floh leaves a link to the new M100 codecs that also work on the “i” (v8 and lower) M100s. The link includes clear instructions. I installed these new HD codecs on my two v8 systems and it really made some improvements. Compressor will now read self-contained and reference clips – no problem. AE really cooks too! The download will put the codecs in the right file for you
HD>Library>quicktime but you may need to re-install 2 of the 3 you deleted(transcoder and v-out). When you work with compressor from M100 remember to alter your compressor settings. M100 works in the RGB color space where Black is 16 (legal) and white is 235 (legal). Compressor works in the YUV color space which is Black is 0 and white is 255. Thats why you see faded blacks and dingy whites when encoding a m100 project in compressor. I’m working on a feature from M100 to DVD right now and my settings are
NTSC
4:3
upperfield
closed gop
7 frame structure
Filters:
black restore + 7.5
colors (highlights and midtones = +20 (leave shadows/lowlights at 0 or you add noise back to your blacks)
Gamma is 1.4 (you could try 1.3 and 1.5)
Compressor has a great split frame view of your original work and “with filters applied” if you double click the source file in the original compressor window that contains the time/quality encode settings.
Scroll through the dark parts of your program to make sure you haven’t destroyed the image (showing as digital black squares) that end up as noise on the finished DVD encode. Play with the gamma a little bit to see what the “crushed black” looks like in your program.
I’m still finding compressor produces the cleanest image(no new noise) – but bitvice has the best color reproduction. I’ve done about 50 tests on this project I’m working on now. Thought I might save you some time!
Best of Luck! Kind Regards, Chris K. -
Hey Michael, I’m using the m100 720 NTSC codec to render in AE. It’s lower field dominant, that’s why i flipped the dominance. Do you loose any quality with the JPEG B codec? I’ve never used it – and quite frankly don’t know much about it! I don’t have cleaner – but AE did the job pretty quickly. Any thoughts? Kind Regards, Chris K.
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Hey Pauly, Don’t I need to select “interlaced” if I’m coming from a M100 8.2.2 640X480 orig. It’s scaled in AE to 720 and switched to lower field. I’ve tried 8 and 10 bit quality and settings of 0 or 20 DVNC – none of which help the look or diversely effect compression time. Could the gamma boost and DV Color boost be causing video anomalies and noise around titles that looks like the “Predator” cloaking effect? Thanks, Chris K.
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Unfortunately no, do you have any other ideas? I’d love to know if I’m doing something wrong. Thanks, Chris
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Jim, Have you tried the new m100 hd codecs in your v8 system. I was skeptical at first but they improved my render times via AE greatly in my 8.2.2 system. They also allow me to go into compressor with a m100 selfcontained. Maybe those codecs in your v8 system will help the import speed from producer. We have 2 M100s here and 2 FCPs in our offices. Both systems have their bugs. To be fair – I don’t mind a short delay on play with M100 because I know it’s going to play video and audio. With our FCP suites if you have a window the wrong size or in the wrong place or the wrong one open you don’t get any audio. How much time have i wasted trying to figure that crap out! When all is said and done – if the world was perfect – they wouldn’t need editors like us to show them how it “could be”! Floh sent me the link to these codecs under the string “Floh, Can you confirm.” I hope it works for you. We all know the frustrations of the bay. Keep plugging away my friend – it’s friday! (That means we only have two more days to meet our Monday deadline!) Kind Regards, Chris K.
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Thanks Kieran!
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Floh, is there any way to reimport music from a CD and have the m100 relink to it. It’s something I’ve been trying to do but haven’t succeeded – so I’ve perfected the “Match playing timecode on the new to the old piece” method and then copy nodes from the old clip that’s had the media deleted from it. Kind Regards, Chris K.