[Cornelius Henke]

John,
I like the NewerTech Voyager Q, but I know that these external SATA docking devices are new (who would have thought that not having a case would make these things more expensive then having one). I want one with Firewire 800 (1394b), but $99.97 does justify that at this point and you could have bought a 1TB Seagate hard drive for $69.99 and still bought the dock (you would only save $10, but if we all begin cutting these “ear-marks,” then maybe our Government could as well.

For those who want to know, this thread really helped me in the decision process.
I Bought 3 1TB Seagate SATA drives from Newegg.com (the best), cleared off my best functioning hard drive. Cloned my original 250GB hard drive using SuperDuper! (worked flawlessly). Shut down the computer and swapped old drives for new ones, then restarted and Striped RAID 0 all the drives together. 2.7TB total for under $300 can’t be beat.

I plan on buying an external dock when the price is right. There are about 14 different types on Newegg ranging from $29.99 to $130, but most of them are USB 2.0 and ESATA (which I don’t have and seem to always have problems with). Hopefully they will drop in the near future.

[Cornelius Henke]

Yes that size was not a proper aspect ratio, but outside your comments I would say to Stephanie, Do these videos seem high enough quality?

https://ae.tutsplus.com/tutorials/motion-graphics/how-to-create-a-cinematic-opening-title/

These are flash encoded files, so maybe you should start there.

[Cornelius Henke]

I am curious as to how one would do it with after effects and compressor? Outside of a projector (one of the many possible formats) is that of broadcast television and 1080p projection. If there was an offer to put the feature on BET for example, then they are going to need a 1080p copy, 1920×1080, not 1440×1080.

And what if the projector doesn’t scale or deinterlace the footage. It is not risking a chance that it will not offer those features. I am assuming most if not all do, but if one doesn’t and there is a screening, then what could be done?

[Cornelius Henke]

I agree with Daniel, but since you are asking such a question I am guessing that MP4 – H264 at 620×340, or even my favorite: PhotoJpeg at 75% (not the best, but I like it) or when I want to send anything through the web fast with high quality I just export FLV’s.

Now if you provide the tools you have to work with I am sure someone in this forum can give you the best answer or you can just give the above 3 a go and see if they work.

[Cornelius Henke]

Thanks, I’ll give it a shot. I actually tried a number of things before putting the project aside to do other work. I tried all that I could based on everyone’s advice, but still I could only do so much. I’m not sure, but I am thinking the since the video file was compressed from it’s original format, that its de-interlaced fields are not in the right proportions. So when no matter how I try to merge them, it is going to only merge some of the fields.

[Cornelius Henke]

These are all excellent answers. Thanks.

As for the older footage and files, I like to keep all of it on disc because I tend to find “immediate solutions” to editing problems that in the random amounts of excess footage that I have captured in the past. It is sort of my own private stock footage collection. I have all the back ups on Tape, but searching through hundreds of DV tapes, to me.. Is not an option. It is much easier to remember a keyword and type it into Finder’s search box. That’s why I was interested in an external RAID device. (Of course if I had the money I would have a server, shared on a network.)

[Cornelius Henke]

Yes and it just gives me large squiggly lines. It becomes ugly. I found a way to minimize the lines to a few here and there with a reverse telecine, but then from there I cannot get rid of the rest of the lines.

[Cornelius Henke]

Thanks,
I have it figured out to a point that I can work with now. I did not have to render any of the footage that I placed into my timeline, but through a cinematools reverse telecine converting from 29fps to 24fps, it has fixed my problem. I no longer see the de-interlaced frames. The frame rate itself is a little off, but ends up just looking like a high shutter speed from in camera. I agree that compressor would be another way of doing this in a similar fashion.

Thanks for all the help…

[Cornelius Henke]

Rich,
I justed used P2 Log Pro to identify the metadata and it said that I shot 1080i60 30fps, but I have changed the project to work with that specific data and I am still receiving the problems with de-interlacing even when I click the remove pulldown.

[Cornelius Henke]

Rich,
Thanks for the fast response. Is there a way to read the metadata without the camera? I only have my computer and the card data files.

Here is the bin file information. I see that it is using the compressor 1080p30, but how can I change that. My resulting footage has 3 frames that are de-interlaced, followed by 2 good frames, then 3 de-interlaced, then 2 good. would that be 2:3:2:3?

Thank you for helping me to understand.

New Bin Photo:

http://www.smallsmoney.com/myspace/test/Picture27.png