[Jay Church]

[Rafael Amador] “Is important to avoid the “Deinterlace source video” in the QT GUI (size). The default QT deinterlace is crap.
Deinterlace with whatever other application before to make the xh264 compression.
Then on the x264 options (Behavior) you must chose “Progressive conversion” because your footage is already Progressive. That affects only to the way Chroma is compressed.”

how/where would i deinterlace before the quicktime conversion export?

my transcoded footage that i’m using in FCP and my sequence setting are both interlaced.

thanks,

_jc

[Jay Church]

ok, i’ve imported transcoded the source as interlaced and plan to deinterlace as i export/compress.

i use the x264 encoder via quicktime conversion in FCP to make my “h.264” web videos.

to anyone that is familiar with that encoder, is it better to check the “deinterlace” option in the “size” section of the quicktime movie settings, or to choose one of the conversion settings (interlaced conversion, progressive conversion) under “chroma subsampling” under the behavior tab in the x264 settings? or a combination of the two?
and which conversion setting would you choose in this instance in the x264 settings?

[Jay Church]

[white yufeng] “You’d better deinterlace your 1080i files to 1080p. In fact, the quality of 1080 60i is equal to 1080 30p”

the question is when/where in the workflow to do so.

when transcoding it for import, or importing it as interlaced (as suggested above) and then deinterlacing it to 30p at export.

my feeling is the latter. are you of another opinion?

thanks,

_jc

[Jay Church]

[Shane Ross] “Get ShotPut Pro for the future. It will offload the cards and ensure the full structure is intact.

Why did you shoot 1080i if your intention was for the web?

I’d deinterlace the final…work at as high quality as you can when you start the edit.”

i didn’t realize the camera was set for 1080i, i thought it was set for 30p.

deinterlacing at the end (at export) was my instinct as well. thanks for the confirmation.

[Jay Church]

i like the idea of having the server ping the user’s. what’s the easiest way to do that?

[Jay Church]

i guess that’s exactly my question:

i realize that everyone’s monitor and gamma is going to be a little different, so i’m wondering if anyone had any suggestions/strategies for setting a sort of “universal” black level for video that will be used on the web, so that it will look fairly decent on the majority of people’s computers, whether it be a mac, windows, lcd or crt etc..

fyi: exporting via quicktime conversion, “medium-broadband” H.264 .mov