[Enzo Tedeschi]

Check your sequence settings. It sounds lie you may be using a HDV res sequence or similar. You can run easy setup on your seqs, too.

Enzo Tedeschi
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[Enzo Tedeschi]

You’re welcome.

What’s a weekend?

😉

Enzo Tedeschi
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[Enzo Tedeschi]

It’s the only one you need.

Enzo Tedeschi
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[Enzo Tedeschi]

Sorry, my bad – leave the distort checkbox on, but deselect the rest. I forgot that everything comes up checked by default 😛

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Brett,

Select your squished footage, option-click, and select “Remove Attributes”. It’ll bring up a list. Hit “Distort”, and OK – it will remove the distortion.

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Mark,

Nice vid – I dig it 🙂

It’s about the quality I would expect from youTube. The only thing you can do is create the highest quality file you can at your end – the cleaner the source, the cleaner your youTube recompression will be. I’ve uploaded a few different sources to my youTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/outpostpps and the results vary a little, but by and large you are dealing with some massive crunching at the youTube end when you upload.

Keep up the good work.

Enzo Tedeschi
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You can probably do it shotsave’s way with the XL1s, but you’ll be compressing the hell out of the pics. 5:1 actually. In my opinion, not suitable for broadcast. At least, not decent broadcast anyway – if that image quality is acceptable to your client, then you’ll save yourself a bunch of trouble. If not, you may cost yourslef a client.

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DVCAM will pass – just… if they were created on anything higher, then you’ll be losing information going down to DVCAM. Best off trying to get uncompressed files.

When we go this route, I prep a timeline as if going to tape – bars, ID/slate, countdown, and pic start at 00:01:30:00. This is standard here in Oz, don’t know about where you are?

That way you’ve got a QT with the right TC, and wherever you go, it will be a minimum of fuss to get that from your file to a tape.

Things to be aware of:

field order – common stumbling block. Anything other than DV is UPPER field first. Progressive frames can work too, but if you have footage with a lot of motion, it can get the jitters. Nothing worse than getting to the dubbing house only to find out that your fields are reversed.

frame size – I always prep 16:9 material as 720×576 anamorphic (PAL). I have seen people prep QTs as 1024×576 so that it looks right on their machine, but a potential world of pain at the other end.

codec – use one that you KNOW will work at the other end. I have used None (good for embedding alphas and CG stuff), Apple Uncompressed 10bit 4:2:2 or 8 bit 4:2:2, or find out what hardware they are using and use the appropriate codec.

Good luck!

Enzo Tedeschi
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[Enzo Tedeschi]

SP is a better way to go than Umatic – does anyone even use that anymore? We have a Umatic and it’s a bit of a relic now – I’m not sure it’s even been powered up in about 3 years…

Although here in Australia, the preferred format for TVC is digital betacam.

To connect SP or digi you’ll need a third party capture card – Blackmagic Decklink and AJA Kona are pretty much the main players here. You’ll need a RAID hard drive to keep up with the data rate at broadcast quality levels if you don’t already have one. We run AJA Kona, and I’d happily recommend.

One of the post paths we have used for low-budget ads is to bypass using tape altogether. We get the material digitised at a studio/dubbing house (usually there isn’t much and is cheaper than hiring a digi deck), cut the spot, master it out as a hi-res Quicktime file (uncompressed 4:2:2) and then take it back to the dubbing house to master it to digi. Just one way of doing it.

This may just create more questions, but I hope it helps!

Enzo Tedeschi
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[Enzo Tedeschi]

Apply the preset, then in the batch list, double-click the line that shows the preset. You will see a bunch of info appear in your inspector window (Make sure you have it open – access it from the Window Menu).

Below the “description” in the Inspector, there is a row of buttons. The first one in the row is your Summary of settings for this preset. This will include a filesize estimate.

The next button along will allow you to tweak settings for video and audio bitrate. Higher bitrate, larger file, better quality results. A bit of experimenting and you’ll get the idea.

The Second last button “Geometry” is where you’ll resolve your 16:9 issue. There is a drop-down menu called “Constrain to Aspect”. Select 16:9 and you should be sorted.

Also, you can fix the 16:9 thing without re-encoding by adjusting the movie properties in Quicktime Pro.

Once you get settings you like, make sure you save them as a preset so you don’t need to set them up each and every time.

Have fun!

Enzo Tedeschi
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