[Jeff Brown]

You didn’t mention how long the video ran, but you can go to the advanced settings and possibly max out the bitrate– at a certain point it doesn’t make much difference, but you can safely go up to 7 Mbps for video, as long as the file will fit on disc. If it is a short file (under 20 min? I haven’t done the math), you should be able to just use 7 Mbps, CBR, one pass. It won’t get much better than that.
The big difference is you client is comparing MPEG compressed to “fresh” DV, and possibly also in 2 different viewing situations – with the post house maybe having a better monitor, proper environment lighting (one would hope), and that free cappucino and scones on the work table.

-jeff

[Jeff Brown]

Have you looked at BlackMagic or AJA cards?

-jeff

[Jeff Brown]

[Steve Henwood] “I am exporting my Premeire Pro CS3 sequence(s) for later projection on an LCD projector”

This can be problematic: you REALLY need to get the exact computer that will be used to play back the video clips, or you are entering into a failure-wrought environment. The safe thing to do is make a DVD for playback through the projector, via a stand-alone DVD player. Otherwise, to approach the quality you’ll get from a DVD, you will need a computer that can play back a lot of data per second, and you’ll want to test it to make sure it actually works with your file.
If there is a reason that precludes using a simple DVD player, such as PowerPoint via the same projector, see above: test, test, test to prevent the egg-on-face syndrome.

-jeff

[Jeff Brown]

Dario–
The COW is a good place to start, but for something like this, you should email AJA directly. Their support has been very good for me. Look under the “support” section of the (aja.com) website, they should help you fix things promptly.

-jeff

[Jeff Brown]

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[Jeff Brown]

A quick workaround: razor the clip at the scene change, so you now have 2 clips. Then you have a different Level FX for the next scene. No keyframes needed.

-jeff

[Jeff Brown]

Shifting up (or down) one pixel is probably the best solution to try. The problem arises from putting 486-high footage into a DV project, which is 480 high. If the image is centered, you get a 3-line shift, which reverses fields. Also contributing to problems is that in some AVID software, the upper/lower field choice is backwards from everyone else; i.e., they use upper = odd field first, whereas the rest of the world has standardized on upper = even field first, so I’m never sure what to trust with AVID… That could just be my problem.

-jeff

[Jeff Brown]

Some details will help trace your problem:

What are your project settings? (NTSC, PAL, D1, DV, HD, HDV, etc.)

What is the footage you are importing (pixel dimensions and PAL/NTSC)?

What codec was used to make the QuickTime?

-jeff

[Jeff Brown]

The one glaring omission in FCP (at least in older versions I’m acquainted with) is the lack of ability to use image sequences on the timeline. PPro does this quite well.
OK, so as an animator, I’m biased– just about everything I do is image sequences, but still…

-jeff

[Jeff Brown]

Is your CS3 on Windows or the Mac platform?