Jeff Brown
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Have you tried more than one playback method to check? (WinMedia player vs. set-top DVD player, QuickTime…)
-Jeff
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Some more details would help. What is the format of the video you are capturing (DV, BetaCam, VHS, etc.)? How are you getting it into the computer (DV->Firewire, VHS->analog capture hardware, etc.)?
Do you use a sync generator (blackburst) in your facility?
-Jeff
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Where you want to look (and show us) is under “Advanced Settings”, so we can see the bitrate. I suspect it’s too low.
-jef
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Is there a chance that the Matrox footage was re-scaled at some point? I know this can happen with NTSC (486 vertical –> 480 vertical), which can smear the fields together, and really trash things.
But, if I remember, PAL doesn’t have the issue of differing vertical resolution.-jeff
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Hi Paul,
Xeon E5520 Nehalem 2.26GHz LGA 1366 80W
US$385 each at the time.
Faster is better, of course, but there’s always a spot with Xeons where the price differential is, um, considerable. If you are rolling your own, do watch the power requirements for the Xeons; there are several power efficiencies made, you’re pwr supply/mobo will need to supply enough for the particular chips you purchase.-Jeff
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Paul,
I’m not absolutely sure, but I believe if you’re talking about dual-processors, you’ll have to go with a new Xeon setup. The i7 chips are mostly the same as newer Xeons, but don’t have the CPU-to-CPU communications to enable use on a multi-processor system board.
But unless you are doing a lot of truly multi-threaded rendering, you might be better with the fastest single i7 chip you can find. I recently added 2 new dual-Xeon (5500) machines built on a SuperMicro 1U rack server platform, and they don’t do all that much compared to my older (2 years) dual-Xeons, UNTIL I’m doing Mental Ray rendering, which maxes out all 16 cores per machine. Then they are quick like bunnies!-Jeff
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Export: Adobe Media Encoder
-jeff
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If you are making a video-DVD, the proper (i.e., only allowable) resolution in NTSC-land is 720×480 (1.2 Pixel Aspect Ratio for 16:9, 0.9 P.A.R. for 4:3). Perhaps WMM resized it for you. Or, if you are doing a “vanilla” MPEG playback somehow (a clever DVD player, perhaps), then you can be non-standard.
-jeff
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Why do you need to compress it? i.e., What is the end use – web, desktop, broadcast, etc.?
-jeff
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If you have not yet done the shooting, here’s what to look into:
digital still camera + intervalometer-Jeff