Heath Firestone
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I have done several Blu-Ray Discs for HD projects I have worked on. I am in the process of testing HD DVD authoring as well.
I wrote an article for Post Magazine about authoring in Blu-Ray last July.
If you’d like to discuss this more, please feel free to email me at Heath@FirestoneStudios.com
Heath
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Is this on a Mac?
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I don’t have Encore in front of me, so I am going from memory, but you should be able to right click on the video clip and choose Interpret Footage, Conform To, 1.42 (I’m guessing on this since I use NTSC, not PAL.) The pixel aspect ratio for 16:9 from 720X576 is 1.422.
Hope this solves your problem,
Heath
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Try pressing M, which will activate the track select tool. Hold down shift, which will select all tracks, represented by two arrows as apposed to the one when in single track select mode. Click and drag the first clip you want shifted, while holding down on the shift button, and drag to where you want it. If you want to go directly to 5 seconds, type in 500 enter which will move your cursor to the 5 second mark. If you have snap on, you can drag it so it snaps to that point.
Hope this helps.
Heath
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You should be fine adding the ROM folder afterwards.
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I have noticed that for whatever reason, sometimes Encore ignores the default button, and instead automatically starts on button one. This may be the same situation. Instead, change the button you want it to default to, to button 1. Do this by selecting the button you want to be the default, and under properties, numbers, select 1. Then make sure default is set to 1. It’s an easy fix, and should resolve your problem.
Let me know if this worked.
Heath
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[Craig Seeman]The EX1 records at 1920×1080.
I stand corrected. 1440X1080 is for standard XDCAM, I was unaware the EX1 recorded to 1920X1080.
[Craig Seeman]The EX1 HD-SDI output is 4:2:2 uncompressed (either 10 bit or 8 bit with 2 “dummy” bits – that’s being debated by some).
Once again, you are correct. That’ll teach me not to double check before posting.
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There are a couple of other things to keep in mind. For one, Sony records at 1440X1080 vs. Panasonic’s 1280X1080 solution for 1080, and 960X720 for 720.
If you do a live capture off of HDSDI, your can actually capture 4:4:4 if you capture uncompressed. I generally capture my greenscreen footage using my HDCAM camera, captured live to one of my Axios, which I can use MPEG2 4:2:2 at true 1920X1080, which I generally capture to a 150Mbps stream.
This gives me results I can work with.
Hope this helps,
Heath
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If you are just talking about a UV Filter or optical flat clear glass filter to protect your glass, I’d probably recommend a Schneider UV or Optical Flat Clear Glass filter. They’re not the cheapest filters, but I’ve always been impressed with the quality of Schneider’s optics.
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I ran into the same problem testing a Panasonic AVCHD camera.
There’s no great solution for this yet. Something to consider, might be to get a Black Magic Intensity card (about $250), and capture from the camera through HDMI to DVCProHD. This takes up a bit of space, but should allow normal editing. Another option would be to buy a Matrox RTX2 HD, which hit the street at about $1500. With this, you can capture through the analog RGB (YPbPr) HD inputs to MPEG2 I frame at anywhere from 50-100 Mbps, which is a little more manageable. It also gives you realtime effects. This also allows you to mix P2 footage with HDV, and whatever you decide to capture your AVCHD footage with, all in the same timeline without having to render non native footage or effects.
Those would be my suggestions.
Heath