[Jason Kupski]

Do you know if that affects the HF G10 camera as well?
I havent tried shooting at 60i yet…

[Jason Kupski]

Sounds good John, thanks a lot !
j

[Jason Kupski]

Thanks for the tip! I dont think it matters which way i go for dvd spec but 30 looks like the way to go for this situation.
I hope things went well for you!
J

[Jason Kupski]

I’m not sure which recommendation was correct so i will commend both of you. Thanks a lot !!! I ended up re-encoding with a CBR and remade the dvd which resolved the issue.
I really appreciate the responses!
j

[Jason Kupski]

Thanks a lot for the responses!
I used 24p last time but have been adjusting the exposure manually with the dial, based on the zebra patterns.
If i have time tonight i’ll do a test shoot based on what you suggested in regards to the auto iris.

Thanks again!
j

[Jason Kupski]

Sorry John, I just read your post from here:
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/24/918076

does that apply if my camera doesn’t have a specified pull down? Should I just leave my field order set to upper for my renders?
thanks!
j

[Jason Kupski]

First off, thanks for taking the time to read / respond.
Secondly, awesome webinar yesterday with the BCC suite! Your YES wallpaper was cool too.
(Also, i’m new to video editing and obviously have a lot to learn)

I’ll definitely give your advice a try, should i use a specific codec for the AVI files (cineform) or just render uncompressed? I would prefer to render uncompressed but i read somewhere that it’s not ideal for some reason or another.

I used interpolate fields because the image quality appeared to be better than blend fields. Should I just set it to none, and not worry about deinterlacing?

Would i gain a quality difference by going from 29.97i to 24p since i’m going to DVD? The reason i ask is that im not sure that my source footage is natively compatible with a pull down to get it to 24p. I used a Sony HDR-HC7
https://www.camcorderinfo.com/content/Sony-HDR-HC7-Camcorder-Review/Format.htm

thanks!
j

[Jason Kupski]

Sounds good, i’m not familiar with apple compressor but a quick search indicates that it essentially equivalent to adobe encoder. (Ie its not the DVD authoring software ?)
So i think that answer my question, use a 3rd party encoder for the mpeg2 final conversion as opposed to the internal encoders for the DVD authoring software.

Thanks!
j

[Jason Kupski]

Michael,
I was/am very reluctant to spend clost to $100 per disk for the total training tutorials since this isn’t my field of work however I found that total training offers an extremely reasonable monthly subscription. For $25 a month i can have access to them all! Oh man im excited about this, thanks!

Dave,
I picked up QT Pro last night so i could render in your recommended PNG format and it is a big help! File sizes are definitely smaller.
I also switched my memory preferences to 2 gigs of ram per core and am only using 2 cores for background rendering. These factors along with turning off the magic bullet frames plus ‘effect’ cut my render time down from 45+ hours to about 11 or so. I need to rerender the original footage since vegas will do the PNG format and just keep it in HD until the end.

As far as MPG, i know it it’s not good but isn’t the the format for DVD’s? Should I let encore do the encoding or use media encoder to create the MPG file and use the MPG files in encore?

Thanks!
Jason

[Jason Kupski]

Thanks for your reply Dave!
Looks like I will be getting QT Pro along with a couple of large hard drives! (My primary system is built for speed and all of my large drives are on my fileserver)

Re-rendering the captured footage into something lossless sounds like a great idea. Hopefully Vegas will be able to use the PNG codec. If not i might be able to change the file extension to MPG and it might be able to be imported to AE directly.

Thanks again!
j