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  • Daniel Low

    May 11, 2008 at 1:08 am in reply to: compression/interlacing question – sorenson/avid

    Although Squeeze doesn’t have the best deinterlacing filters around, it’s better to use those than anything Media Composer has.

    Obviously you could set the XL2 to shoot in progressive mode and then you’d never have to worry about the horrible world of deinterlacing!

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  • Daniel Low

    May 11, 2008 at 1:04 am in reply to: H.264 compression ratio

    OK

    I’ll try answering it in this way:

    1. How many Megapixels is the camera and how many megabytes does 1 minute of 1280×720 H.264 video from that camera take up in space?

    2. What is the format, frame size and datarate of the source you used to create the MPEG-2 and how long is it in total?

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  • Daniel Low

    May 9, 2008 at 3:12 pm in reply to: Best capture settings for VHS / SVHS / Hi8

    This site is a great resource for advice on CODEC performance.

    https://codecs.onerivermedia.com/

    Part of the decision of what codec to sue will be based on workflow. For example most people would recommend using the Huffyuv codec – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huffyuv but this would not fall easily into your workflow as ideally you want to capture to the same codec as you’ll be archiving with.

    If I were you I’d continue using the Blackmagic 8bit uncompressed codec; storage is cheap, especially offline storage.

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  • Daniel Low

    May 9, 2008 at 1:42 pm in reply to: compressor problem

    Have a try with this:

    https://www.qtbridge.com/lillipot/lillipot.html

    Please let us know how you got on…

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  • Daniel Low

    May 9, 2008 at 1:38 pm in reply to: Best capture settings for VHS / SVHS / Hi8

    What capture solutions/products to you have available to use?

    What are the future requirements for media retrevial from the archive?

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  • Daniel Low

    May 9, 2008 at 12:10 pm in reply to: H.264 compression ratio

    1. Depends on the specs of the camera.

    2. Depends on the source.

    A = source
    B = compressed output

    Compression ratio is how much is ‘A’ compressed by to become ‘B’

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratio
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_compression
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_compression

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  • Daniel Low

    May 9, 2008 at 8:43 am in reply to: 1-5 minutes of video?

    Well the text looks much better but the footage doesn’t look better at all.

    Do you know if it was shot progressive, can you see interlacing in the source footage?

    To make a great improvement with this footage you are really going to have a to get a dedicated transcoding application, FCP is a great NLE but it is not a great transcoder.

    Ideally you should be exporting out of FCP straight to whatever is your FLV transcoder avoiding any intermediate steps, like going to H.264 for example.

    Have a go with ffmpegx it’s not the easiest to use but it’s free. If you want anything better look at Episode.
    https://homepage.mac.com/major4/

    I’d recommend you export out of FCP as a reference movie, not self contained and take that into your transcoder.

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  • Daniel Low

    May 8, 2008 at 5:56 pm in reply to: BAtch monitor keeps going up and won’t cancel

    See the post directly under this one, it may help you solve this issue.

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  • Daniel Low

    May 8, 2008 at 4:35 pm in reply to: 1-5 minutes of video?

    My observations:

    The text overlay looks interlaced, I’m assuming you didn’t deinterlace the clip?

    The frame size is wrong. Rule of thumb is that the frame size needs to be equally divisable by 16.

    Your frame size is not exactly 16:9 either (16:9 is 1.78:1, yours is at 1.88:1) so you’re probably distorting the picture.

    I’d suggest using 512×288

    Let us know how you get on..

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  • Daniel Low

    May 8, 2008 at 8:42 am in reply to: keep compressing or pull the plug?

    Another one of the reasons I tend to avoid compressor!

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