David Lewis
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Today I took the MTS footage and converted it to Apple Prores 422(HQ) via “Wondershare Video Converter”. I’m not sure how professional this converter is, but seems to be doing the trick (in the middle of the process now). I made a custom setting to 25 fps at 1920 X 1080 and so far three of the several clips have converted fine…. at a weight a bit more manageable between 15-17 GB.
One thing I did seem to notice today as I reviewed other footage (at 25 fps as well) is that some of my footage seemed to slightly stagger/jittered…
It looks like I need to play with my Sequence settings to try and resolve that issue. When I put in another clip (shot as an MOV at 25 fps) the prompt to match the sequence settings to the clip settings ended up having this “stagger” (jitter?) yet when I said “no”, the sequence played smoothly.
I double checked to see that the project “Sequence Settings” matched the clips settings… Any advice?
David C. Lewis
Editor- Director
DCL Video Productions -
Thank you Eric and Shane, as usual useful and helpful information. I didn’t realize AVCHD compressed files that much! I also appreciate the clarification between 720 and 1080.
With most of the stuff I have shot (PAL) I try and use 720. This was shot for a client and delivered to me for editing.
Can you recommend a procedure where I can lower the weight of the files and still keep good quality for my editing and final product? I’m open to suggestions… I will have to work with the files I have right now but would love to be able to work with less heavy files.
Thanks for your input.
David C. Lewis
Editor- Director
DCL Video Productions -
Shane:
Just spent a few minutes downloading most/all the AMAs (except Arri… which required a registered user), and as usual your suggestion worked perfectly.
I appreciate the help. Nice when things work out as they should!
All the best,
David C. Lewis
Editor- Director
DCL Video Productions -
Thank you Shane.
I will give it a try… as they say “it couldn’t hurt”.
David C. Lewis
Editor- Director
DCL Video Productions -
Thank you Pat.
Your advice sounds good. I now recall someone else once told me best to always export “as is” from the edit system (AVID and FCP, I believe). Then, as you noted, work with the media file in a tool such as Squeeze.
I’ll try that and I hope it does the trick. This will be a good trial/error preparing for jobs that aren’t a personal home video project!
All the best,
David C. Lewis
Editor- Director
DCL Video Productions -
Hi James!
Excellent help, thank you. Just watched the tutorial. I never used this FX before and I’m sure it has a LOT of applications. I’ll work with it and no doubt it will resolve the issue.
I appreciate your posting.
David C. Lewis
Editor- Director
DCL Video Productions -
Hi Fred:
Thank you for replying. I agree with you, but I’m not even sure how to put an image in these replies…. simply copy and paste a jpeg??
Anyway… Simply imagine any video with several people in the image and you want to highlight one individual’s face.
I want to do this by showing the image and having the whole photo
fade down to a subdued look ( sort of in the shadows )except keeping one face still clear and full colored, and surrounded in a circle shape (well, the rest of the image has simply subdued leaving that cicle fX as a result).I’m pretty sure we’ve all seen the effect used before.
David C. Lewis
Editor- Director
DCL Video Productions -
Hi Shane and Pat:
Yup… it was shot as “i” and thus this problem exists.
I’ll assume that if I export and choose “deinterlace” that should solve/help the line/field problem be resolved.
Would it be better to export in it’s native codec and not deinterlace and then take it to Sorensen Squeeze to make it a deinterlaced H264 for a disk or Interent viewing?
And advice well placed… I do try and shoot “p” on professional work, but this was shot on my consumer camera and I didn’t think to even look for “p” (found out it DOES have a 50p option… too late) option.
Thanks for your input.
David C. Lewis
Editor- Director
DCL Video Productions -
James, Thank you for your quick response.
I tried a QT Ref. file. It seems not to have those line factoring… like seeing the “lines” of the frames horizontally across the screen. But, it did not play smoothly, a very heavy file so it seems.
David C. Lewis
Editor- Director
DCL Video Productions -
Thanks for your reply.
I’d prefer not purchasing another program at this time. I assume Encore isn’t cheap. I’ll perhaps somehow get the program off the Mac in a readable file for my PC and create the DVD their.
I do have iDVD on the Mac, but I’m unfamiliar with how well it works at this time (haven’t played with it yet).
David C. Lewis
Editor- Director
DCL Video Productions