Greg Ondera
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Just call Century Optics, now Schneider Optics and ask them all about it. https://www.schneideroptics.com/century/index.htm
Greg Ondera
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Thanks, Craig. That’s a lot of good information.
Greg Ondera
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I think you would be surprised how many Windows users have QuickTime. It’s everywhere really. But I do agree it would be good to find out first.
The reason I advocate progressive is that whenever anything interlaced goes to the web or gets encoded in any way, which it sounds like it will, it will look fuzzy and soft, even when deinterlacing. Progressive keeps a bold color and crisper look to it, and it is such a difference and very noticeable. I am moving away from interlace entirely myself, but would like to hear reasoning why I should still use it. I even deinterlace my old interlaced programs as masters now.
Also if there is any way you can steer your client to H.264, I would. The quality over WMV is hands over fist much better. And in mp4 form it will play on practically anything. I would pitch for using Telestream’s Episode Pro for codecing H.264, although there are several good encoders out there.
So I have a little menu for that, if you want, and some of my formula has impact on WMV files as well, but doesn’t entirely translate. If you go to https://www.surgeontoday.org/faq/ and a little over half way down the page under “What are the best practices for preparing a video for upload?” that will tell you what I recommend. Playing with bitrates is the key to testing, but other considerations there should be followed as constants.
Greg Ondera
http://www.Plexus.tv
http://www.SurgeonToday.org -
I think you would be surprised how many Windows users have QuickTime. It’s everywhere really. But I do agree it would be good to find out first.
The reason I advocate progressive is that whenever anything interlaced goes to the web or gets encoded in any way, which it sounds like it will, it will look fuzzy and soft, even when deinterlacing. Progressive keeps a bold color and crisper look to it, and it is such a difference and very noticeable. I am moving away from interlace entirely myself, but would like to hear reasoning why I should still use it. I even deinterlace my old interlaced programs as masters now.
Also if there is any way you can steer your client to H.264, I would. The quality over WMV is hands over fist much better. And in mp4 form it will play on practically anything. I would pitch for using Telestream’s Episode Pro for codecing H.264, although there are several good encoders out there.
So I have a little menu for that, if you want, and some of my formula has impact on WMV files as well, but doesn’t entirely translate. If you go to https://www.surgeontoday.org/faq/ and a little over half way down the page under “What are the best practices for preparing a video for upload?” that will tell you what I recommend. Playing with bitrates is the key to testing, but other considerations there should be followed as constants.
Greg Ondera
http://www.Plexus.tv
http://www.SurgeonToday.org -
I think you would be surprised how many Windows users have QuickTime. It’s everywhere really. But I do agree it would be good to find out first.
The reason I advocate progressive is that whenever anything interlaced goes to the web or gets encoded in any way, which it sounds like it will, it will look fuzzy and soft, even when deinterlacing. Progressive keeps a bold color and crisper look to it, and it is such a difference and very noticeable. I am moving away from interlace entirely myself, but would like to hear reasoning why I should still use it. I even deinterlace my old interlaced programs as masters now.
Also if there is any way you can steer your client to H.264, I would. The quality over WMV is hands over fist much better. And in mp4 form it will play on practically anything. I would pitch for using Telestream’s Episode Pro for codecing H.264, although there are several good encoders out there.
So I have a little menu for that, if you want, and some of my formula has impact on WMV files as well, but doesn’t entirely translate. If you go to https://www.surgeontoday.org/faq/ and a little over half way down the page under “What are the best practices for preparing a video for upload?” that will tell you what I recommend. Playing with bitrates is the key to testing, but other considerations there should be followed as constants.
Greg Ondera
http://www.Plexus.tv
http://www.SurgeonToday.org -
Ahh. And here I just got up from a restful evening. I am sure you don’t want to hear that though. Probably my cursory reading practices. I sympathize with you and hope this can be solved.
Greg Ondera
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http://www.SurgeonToday.org -
Sounds like they forgot to give you a card, and they aren’t sounding like the responsibly-minded individuals from that kind of statement.
Greg Ondera
http://www.Plexus.tv
http://www.SurgeonToday.org -
Ronnie – Seems to me like you might be creating a problem by throttling the cards in this manner you describe. I very adamantly advocate using XDCam Clip Browser for initially ingesting all cards into a stack of folders I have created. This is good workflow practice. I also say, let the cards span and I do this all the time. I shoot multi-hour surgery and want to make one clip from each camera that I can synch later. Not that you want to do something like that, but after you ingest all your footage through Clip Browser, which gives you great comprehension of what you have ingested, and after the shoot, you take every folder you have loaded at once, all together, into XDCam Transfer, highlight them all(after you have labeled them the way you want) and transfer them for Final Cut Pro and it stitches it all together for you into one clip, if that is how you shot.
This being said, I have also many times spoken of how much I think Sony has poorly marketed the workflow for XDCam EX products. So many posts are about videographers who have devised some way of doing things and trying to work it out for themselves, which is commendable. I listened to Doug Jensen in his DVD from Vortex Media about XDCam workflow and I would recommend this.
Greg Ondera
http://www.Plexus.tv
http://www.SurgeonToday.org -
My thoughts ditto what Craig said, but I would really advocate shooting in progressive and leaving interlaced behind.
Greg Ondera
http://www.Plexus.tv
http://www.SurgeonToday.org -
My vote for Episode Pro too. I love this software and I like the company.
Greg Ondera
http://www.Plexus.tv
http://www.SurgeonToday.org