Jeff Brown
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If this is your first time supplying masters for broadcast, it would really behoove you to find a local post house has that has done good broadcast masters in the past, and take your (uncompressed) files to them for the layback. It will probably cost more (but not way more) than renting a DigiBeta deck for a day or two. Suffice it to say, there are a lot of ways you can mess up a master while putting it to tape. The post house should also have hardware ‘scopes, test signal generators, audio phase meters, calibrated monitors, and the like. (Don’t just find someone with finalCut and a deck — you don’t want your masters rejected, especially the 1st time.)
-jeff
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I’d call or email AJA directly if you want a fast answer– I don’t think they follow this board regularly.
-jeff
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With appropriate software, you can use NTFS on Mac, or HFS on Windows drives. No 4 GB limit.
AVI, like Quicktime, is just a wrapper for the data inside. Uncompressed AVI is (duh) lossless. So are the PNG and Animation codecs in Quicktime. What is the native format of the files? That is often the flavor to use.-jeff
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[Chris Burns] “I have found the settings for the fields but nothing seemed to make a difference. I’ve noticed that the tv screen is showing the seperation and not so much the monitor.”
The TV is showing you the correct image. Computer monitors do not show fields correctly, they are progressive display devices. Fields should flicker on a still pause. If your motion looks good on the TV, then your field dominance is good. If your motion has judder/strobing, then most likely your fields are reversed.
-jeff
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The competition should be providing guidelines. If not, assume a “lowest-common-denominator”, and author to Blu-Ray. That would be my approach, anyway.
-jeff
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The important question is: where is this movie going?
Desktop playback, DVD, archiving, broadcast, etc….-jeff
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You can edit in pretty much any raster size: you just need to make a custom preset.
-jeff
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“Noise Reduction” is also a render killer.
Beyond that, are you using large stills (more than 2x raster size)?
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the reality is this… compression looses quality – period.
Not true (period). PNG is lossless compression, TGA, TIFF, and PSD files also employ lossless compression (most commonly a variant of RLE). ZIP files are compressed, and obviously lossless. And note we are not speaking of “visually lossless”, the above compression schemes lose no data at all.
Just wanted to clear that up.
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[Paul Murphy] “I was exporting a progressive Quicktime from an interlaced sequence.”
OK, that too would give you some less-than-ideal results! Glad you found the problem.
-Jeff