[David Bogie]

Unless I ma completely misunderstanding your post:
If your hope is to preserve the footage so you do not need to maintain the original tape, you must stay as uncompressed and unprocessed as possible. I wouldn’t export these at all, I’d just copy them.

You do not need fancy drives for archiving since you won’t be playing back form the drives. There are hundreds of cheap drives on the market including Fantom 1TB for $400 at macwarehouse. That’s about $2500 per project to put two 2-3 gB copies on a shelf. That’s just not much money compared to the risk of losing the footage. (shoot, my first 18 gig RAID from Med

[David Bogie]

Ah, very good suggestions. Neither time nor money are factors?

However, the “best” in the question does not necessarily mean the OP is looking for the best image, could be best workflow?

I suppose the more interesting questions would have been, “What is being deinterlaced, why is it being deinterlaced and what algorithm would is preferred? Blending or deleting of the errant fields.

bogiesan

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[David Bogie]

Use deinterlace filter in FCP.
Use deinterlace settings on the encoder while building your MPEG2.

bogiesan

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[David Bogie]

You can mess this with this all week and never get satisfactory results. Avid’s codecs are proprietary and not necessarily portable.
Your best bet is to ask the source to provide you with standard, open-source material like conventional DV.
Short of that, you can open the clip in QT Pro and export as a new movie to your sequence settings. Could take a long time, be sure sure to do some experiments first before you commit too much time.

bogiesan

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[David Bogie]

> b-roll stills of movie posters and such, and we would like to have the feeling of someone shooting the movie poster hand held, kinda shakey, instead of using boring pans and tilts in final cut pro.< > [bogiesan] “In any case, AE, Motion or FCP, you will need to scale your clip up to about 110-120% to cover the fact that, as you move it around the frame, you will see the edge of the clip”
Not when using photos and such as I believe the OP is using, as he mentioned using FCP to pan the images. It’s very likely these stills are much larger than video frame to allow for pans and scales in post. < I guess that depends on how we read the OP's use of the industry standard term "b-roll" which are not stills but must, by definition, be movies of stills. Wht he realy means, as you say, is that he will be using these still images as b-roll, not that he has b-roll of the images. bogiesan This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[David Bogie]

Bull. You may have a lemon, you may have a bad firewire cable, can’t tell from here.

The DSR11 in my shop has bee a flawless and dependable workhorse for three years and three revs of FCP. Every problem I have ever had between the DSR11 and FCP has been a clear and fixable user error.
The DSR11 is inexpensive, robust and versatile. You can buy one with complete confidence.

bogiesan

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[David Bogie]

The cheapest and most stable file storage system is hard drives. For $100 you can get 100 or more gigs. Copy your stuff off to the drive, put the drive in a Foodsaver vacuum bag and label it and put it on a shelf.

bogiesan

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[David Bogie]

First thing to try, disconnect ALL network connections.
Compressor thinks every machine or server is part of it render farm, even if it’s not capable of being a farm.

However, the advice to search is better. There are many different possible causes and just as many possible cures.
bogiesan

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[David Bogie]

They are not backwardly compatible. The new file format has lots of stuff in it that the previous version cannot understand.

You can export via XML. Sorry, I have no clue how to do that but there are dozens of posts here on the topic and I think it’s covered in the manuals.

bogiesan

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[David Bogie]

The iPod light streak demo is here on the Cow. You will need Trapcode Particular to pull it off as illustrated but you can use other devices to leave trails.

bogiesan

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