[Gillian Borg]

Hi Dave,

Thanks so much for getting back to me and apologies, my lack of understanding of audio led me to use the wrong terminology.

I meant exporting it from Soundtrack Pro was adding a ‘dither’ (and not re-compression) which apparently adds white noise to the audio file. However, we have now successfully bounced the audio from Logic pro which, I am being told, will avoid the issue.

So this workaround has enabled us to import the file, however it has been an annoying episode to say the least. Would you know what causes this?

Many thanks.

[Gillian Borg]

Brilliant, Shane and Dave.

I will install QT7 and see if this helps and update with how things go.

Regards.

[Gillian Borg]

Hi Shane,

I’ve got the latest QT10.1 🙁

Is that the reason why?

Weirdly enough, when I chose QT conversion and did a H.264 for online streaming, it came out ok. But That doesn’t give me the raw big file I needed for DVDs.

Is there no fix, or do you suggest downgrading the player?

[Gillian Borg]

Hi Max,

I am encountering the same problem. Any solutions yet?

Thanks

[Gillian Borg]

Thanks so much for you response, Rafael.

It looks like that is the issue indeed.

Simply means that I’ll have to go back to all the clips used, rescale them again with the right setting and reconnect them!

Just so I understand the workflow a bit better, in compressor, apart from the Geometry, I put Frame Controls as ON,

Resize Filter to BEST,

Output fileds – Same as Source

and what about the rest:

De-interlace – BEST (?)

Check ‘Adaptive Details’ ?

Rate conversion – Best (?)

Set Duration – 100%

Or something else?

If I am missing something, then please let me know. Thanks so much for your help.

Gillian

[Gillian Borg]

Hmm, that might be the problem.

All I did in compressor was import the files, add the Apple pro res codec, and in settings, set the geometry to 1280×780 and in padding, selected Preserve Aspect Ratio.

Was I supposed to do something with the Frame Controls as well?

You’re right, the problem is more obvious with the rescaled ones.

However, the shots that haven’t been rescaled and originally shot in 1280×780 also seem to have this issue (or am I looking into it too much?)

Here’s an original clip frame:

Or Link here:

night.jpg

Could this be more because it’s a night shot and we used an ISO up to 800 hence bad quality or something else?

Thanks!

[Gillian Borg]

It might well be that as I can’t understand how it could be an interlacing issue?!

I’ve written a DVD, and also watched it on other monitor but the problem persists – what causes this? I thought it was only limited to animation?

I’ve done some read around and it suggests that not converting to right codec does it but the conversion was a simple H.264 to Pro Res 422.

[Gillian Borg]

I’ve checked both source footage and the sequence – all are set to field dominance – none.

🙁

[Gillian Borg]

Thanks for getting back to me, Colin.

My internet is playing up but I’ve taken screenshots of two images together to show the difference.

I just discovered that my sequence settings had Lower Field Dominance set. Just changed that to ‘None’ and removed the De-interlace filter to check – it’s much better but still, the lines can be seen.

On the left side of the frame you’ll see the frame without the filter, the right one is with filter. If you look closely at her hand/eyes – you’ll see lines whilst the one with the filter is blurry and not as sharp. Can’t figure out why!

Also the link to see it bigger:

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