[George Sloan]

Richard,

I was attempting to use Compressor to crop the HD Picture to 4:3
using the geometry tab. Does that work? Why wouldn’t that work?
It seems it would give me more control if it did work.

My Blurry question was eventually
answered by myself. The main problem all along was that I wasn’t
setting Studio Pro’s Preferences PRIOR to importing assets.

George

George Sloan Productions
http://www.sloanmotion.com
“Music Mountain” Channel 4 Windstream Cable TV
Cannon Xh A1 1080i>FCP7>ProRes>SD DVD>Delivery on DVD to Broadcast and DVD distribution

[George Sloan]

Thanks Todd,

I was just starting to doubt my hypothesis as well. Reason being that
I tested a burn with Toast against my usual Apple Studio Pro burn.

1.Toast had very little of the blurry and ziggy artifacts as did
Studio Pro.

2. Toast was set to reencode.

Now I am thinking the problem is in the authoring software. In this case Studio PRO with shutter speed being just a contributing factor.

George

George Sloan Productions
http://www.sloanmotion.com
“Music Mountain” Channel 4 Windstream Cable TV
Cannon Xh A1 1080i>FCP7>ProRes>SD DVD>Delivery on DVD to Broadcast and DVD distribution

[George Sloan]

The deinterlace setting you are refering to is only a preference
should you require Compressor to deinterlace. Since I chose Progressive
in the setting called “Output Fields” compressor knows not to deinterlace. So in this example everything stays progressive as you suggest it should be.

So when i view the footage off the timeline on several different external monitors the footage is looking good. (It also looks good on computer displays after compression to .MOV or Mp2.) Once burned to dvd and played back on these same external monitors the blurring occurs.

So I’m guessing the slow speed of 1/30 doesn’t seem to show up much until
compressed to dvd.???

George

George Sloan Productions
http://www.sloanmotion.com
“Music Mountain” Channel 4 Windstream Cable TV
Cannon Xh A1 1080i>FCP7>ProRes>SD DVD>Delivery on DVD to Broadcast and DVD distribution

[George Sloan]

Thanks William,

OK the rule is to shoot with a 1/60 shutter when frame rate is 30F but if you do not obey that rule and instead shoot with a 1/30 shutter. What happens?

Specifically…why would the footage look ok every step of the way until
it reaches final output as a DVD. It is only at that point that the blurring occurs.

George

George Sloan Productions
http://www.sloanmotion.com
“Music Mountain” Channel 4 Windstream Cable TV
Cannon Xh A1 1080i>FCP7>ProRes>SD DVD>Delivery on DVD to Broadcast and DVD distribution

[George Sloan]

Dave,

I realize this is an old post but I am where you were 2 years ago.
This thread sort of stops before i can fully grasp how you resolved this issue.

I too have horrible results when i get to the dvd stage. For years having same problem as you with same camera equipment.

What exactly did you conclude. I am currently trying to burn a 30 minute program shot in 1080 30F, shutter was set at 1/30 and 1/60.

My Dvds suck but great looking off the timeline.

Are you saying that with faster shutter speeds my footage will look better on DVD?

George

George Sloan Productions
http://www.sloanmotion.com
“Music Mountain” Channel 4 Windstream Cable TV
Cannon Xh A1 1080i>FCP7>ProRes>SD DVD>Delivery on DVD to Broadcast and DVD distribution

[George Sloan]

Thanks Jeff,

I’ll run a ck on toast as you said. As for reencode. Toast has a “never” setting.That I am using.
George

George Sloan Productions
http://www.sloanmotion.com
“Music Mountain” Channel 4 Windstream Cable TV
Cannon Xh A1 1080i>FCP7>ProRes>SD DVD>Delivery on DVD to Broadcast and DVD distribution

[George Sloan]

Thanks Craig,

I am currently using a qmaster cluster with good results over 4 cores. JUst wondering what would be a significant step up from here. Currently using a firewire800 connection woud a sata card help much
or perhaps a bigger raid?
george

George Sloan Productions
http://www.sloanmotion.com
“Music Mountain” Channel 4 Windstream Cable TV
Cannon Xh A1 1080i>FCP7>ProRes>SD DVD>Delivery on DVD to Broadcast and DVD distribution

[George Sloan]

Jeff G,

I worked until 3AM last night trying to figure that out!
I was beginning to think I had asked asked a dumb question.
You are my Hero. Need more like you.

George

George Sloan Productions
http://www.sloanmotion.com
“Music Mountain” Channel 4 Windstream Cable TV
Cannon Xh A1 1080i>FCP7/ProRes>SD DVD>For Delivery to Broadcast and DVD distribution

[George Sloan]

I am pretty much a newby at live bands but I have shot 3 30 minute programs now and have made all the mistakes.Multiple bands at Bluegrass Events and one semi major act (the Tams..for you old guys).
Sound is crucial and problematic. If you are coming off the board you better hope the sound man knows what he’s doing and cares about your sound. Its not a given by any means.
Get a good mic and always be prepared to go it alone. If you can, use his sound and yours.
You cannot have too many options or to many audio sources to choose from and/or mix together in post.

George
Sloanmotion.com

[George Sloan]

Hi Rafael,

Nice looking kid you have there in the pic.
I ran a test before. It looked fine. Now this problem.
G