Eric Pautsch
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OK…I just watched the disc.
Your encoding is fine. Those issues are just the nature of interlaced video. Really not as bad as I thought it would be. You really need to color correct that piece and that will help alot!! You left your automatic aperture activated! 🙂 The whites are really washed out. After that I would try another encode with compressor. You can try another encoder or pay someone to do the encoding but with source footage like that, you can only do so much. Not saying it looks real bad, and Im sure its a thoughtful and provocative film, but it needs a good grading pass done.
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I’ll take a look at the TS folder this weekend. I was thinking the same thing about masking those trouble spots. However, this just might be something you cant fix. Even masters from the studios have bad moire patterns like these.
A Hardware down-conversion would be a waste of time and money. If you were up converting, then I would say otherwise. But even the CORRECT software based conversion processes with match any hardware set up. The only difference is time…which is a premium in certain environments. Ive spent many years has a tape op doing down/up/cross conversions and can tell you there are free tools like AviSynth which match an Alchemsit, UFC or Terenex conversion frame to frame….period! The difference is that the software option takes days while the HW is real time.
Alot professional encoding is file based these days. This might help.
Talk later.
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It looks like you’re doing everything correctly. Look in the Inspector for Compressor and you’ll see where to set the progressive flags. Look at some youtube tutorials first.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xw93na5phCo&feature=related
I work nights (yes I have a real job now) so Im going to bed now…I’ll look at the TS later 🙂
Eric
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Arrggghhh….I hate 30p! I believe you have a 30p file. You still dont indicate how you encoded the piece? Progressive or interlaced.
BTW…the screenshots look fine. You will loose alot of info since you’re going to MPEG 2. Reds are a terrible color to use. I’ll have a look at the files later.
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You need to give us the info on you what your editing. Go to to original timeline and give use codec, frame size, timecode, ect. A small TS folder plus a QT uploaded somewhere would be huge!
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DVDSPs muxing engine is fine. This has nothing to do with the quality of your stream, it only gathers all the assets and bundles them into the appropriate files that players read.
Are you encoding progressive? Your FCP time line is 23.98 correct? It hard to say since I cant see what youre looking at. I’m not sure if your workflow has an error or you’re being overly optimistic 🙂 Can you post some screen shots of the problem areas?
You wont see a dramatic improvement when using Bitvice or Cinemcraft. They are much better at lower bitrates though which is why I abandoned Compressor years ago. These are just Mac examples too. I use the PC version of Cinemacraft SP v2. When I was working for the Studios we used the Xtream version which cost upwards of $75K so dont think Hollywood is using $500 tools. 🙂 Many streams come from 2k or 4k files and are correctly down converted and color corrected.
Your timeline should be 1280 X 1080, 23.98. (or30p). Use this to down convert to a 720×480 16×9 Anamorphic export and encode.
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Maybe others can comment on Compressors ability to Down Convert. This could also be your problem area. Ive never used it for that. I will only feed an encoder a 720×480 uncompressed QT.
In FCP you would go to QT conversion and export out your new QT – make sure its 16×9 anamorphic.
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Yes…it will require DVD Studio Pro. You need a tool which allow you to write scripts that tell the player in what direction you want it to go based on user input.
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You made 2 mistakes. First dont set your bitrates to the max. DVD has a maximum bitrate of 9.8 for video. Many encoders will spike over this if your not careful. Plus many DVD players will have troubles playing burned discs with 8+ settings. Second, you want to encode in Compressor, not DVDSP. It will offer more control and a better encode since Compressor’s compression Algorithms are more advanced than QTs encoding engine (which is what DVDSP uses).
I would export out your timeline as a ProRes 422 720×480 16×9 Anamorphic QT. Drop this into Compressor and Set your bitrate at CBR @ 7.2 mb/s and see if you like the results. There are other encoders such as BitVice and Cinemacraft which do a better job, especially at lower bitrates.
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AVISnyth is what I would use….and its free!!