Daniel Low
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Ok that confirms that you are suffering from this well known issue.
There are workarounds but to be honest you are better off using another more up to date and efficient format like MPEG-4
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[marc dejesus] “for example, the DVDs i buy seem so much higher in quality then the DVD’s i make.. “
That’s usually because the commercial titles are shot using much higher quality formats than HDV. Adobe media encoder is not bad at all with MPEG-2, what settings are you using, there maybe ways to improve your output.
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How many PCs have you tried this on?
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What H.264 export settings have you tried?
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They are not Flash Cornelius, they are H.264 files played in a Flash player.
To be brutally honest, it’s a no brainer to get a high quality at 30Mb/s (!) for 720p and with easy-ish computer generated content.That preview clip is over 100MB for only 30 seconds!
I’d be impressed if it was 2.5Mb/s at 1080p and a fast moving action movie.
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[Stephanie Gottlieb] “The only problem I have is that every second or so the screen blurs and then goes back to normal (like a heartbeat). Not sure why that happens…any thoughts?”
That’ll be the keyframe setting in the export settings causing that.
Change it to be 10x your frame rate – so if you are at 30 frames per second then set the keyframe distance to be every 300 frames or every 10 seconds.
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[Cornelius Henke] “I am curious as to how one would do it with after effects and compressor”
Import your source and export with the new output frame dimensions to your chosen codec. compressor allow you to access high end scaling and deinterlacing options to further improve the quality but that ultimately slow the process down considerably. I’m not that familiar with the latest version of AE to comment on what options you have available, but this is bread and butter work for it.
[Cornelius Henke] “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.”
Basic stuff here:
1440×1080 non-square pixels = 1920×1080 square pixels. ‘i’ vs ‘p’ is a different story.(I have no idea who BET are)
[Cornelius Henke] “And what if the projector doesn’t scale or deinterlace the footage.”
All projectors made in the last decade will, even the cheap ones used at home.
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[Cornelius Henke] “More specifically I am looking to turn HDV 1440×1080, 60i, to 4K or even 2K”
Why?
Leave the scaling to the projector, if it’s a good projector, its scaler and deinterlacer will do much better job than you can do on a desktop computer, whatever software you have.
If you feel you have to do it, Shake will probably do a fairly good job, followed by compressor or even AferEffects, but it’s not exactly a drag and drop task!
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[Cornelius Henke] “I am guessing that MP4 – H264 at 620×340, or even my favorite: PhotoJpeg at 75%”
Thanks for stepping in Cornelius but that frame size is totally wrong – it’s neither 4:3 or 16:9 and is not equally DIV 8 or 16 (each dimension equally divisible by 8 or 16, a very important consideration with frame sizes). I’m guessing it was a typo?
On top of that there’s a world of difference between H.264, PhotoJPEG and Flash (which in turn could be either FLV or H.264) – H.264 (at this level) and Flash (FLV) tend to be delivery formats where as PhotoJPEG is used generally as an intermediate codec, not for final delivery.
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[neil parker] “The client wants each seg encoded in Flash at 561×374”
Tell the client he’s got the frame size totally wrong, for a start.
https://www.flashsupport.com/books/fvst/files/tools/video_sizes.html
With the correct frame size you should easily get good looking video at 1Mb/s unless it’s terribly difficult content.
Unless of course the client wants a final FILE SIZE of 1MB, in which case you’re gong to have serious problems getting anything to look half good.
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