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Jeff Greenberg
August 19, 2011 at 2:47 pm in reply to: Video Podcast Settings

What format did you start with (example: 1080i30 DVCPro HD) and where are you editing it? (Premiere Pro) and where do you intend for it to be played back (Computers and iOS devices)

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Jeff G

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Jeff Greenberg
August 19, 2011 at 2:46 pm in reply to: Best compression settings/workflow to Burn a short to DVD

Use the 90 minute.

DVDs have a maximum bandwidth. Exceed it and the DVD won’t play. The 90 min is (more or less) the maximum.

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Jeff G

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Jeff Greenberg
August 19, 2011 at 2:45 pm in reply to: what colour space do i use for lagarith intermediate compression?

[Adam Prest] “am i right to say that YV12 will be the most similar to my camera’s footage and therefore the best for an intermediate codec?”

Maybe. Maybe not. You’re in the same color space – but if you do any transforms in Vegas, probably being 4:2:2 means less further damage. 4:2:0 is fairly compromised at the start. (PS I had to research YV12 – let’s call it what everyone else does 420). I’d probably go to 422 space to give it breathing room.

If you’re working in an intermediary codec, the big issue is how much extra bandwidth did you give it? (for HD 100+mbs is decent) – after that, it’s irrelevant where it goes – it was compromised to begin with, you put it in an intermediary codec.

Do your own comparisons (and report back here for others!)

[Adam Prest] “what do you mean when you say “if nothing else was done to it”? “
I mean this; if you just convert it (into a higher bitrate) you’ve done minimal to it. Each transformation does more damage – try to do them all at once; I don’t know about how Vegas handles it’s CC – is it YUV? Is it RGB?

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Jeff G

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Jeff Greenberg
August 16, 2011 at 9:08 pm in reply to: Shouldn’t Uncompressed look better than ProRes 422? And why does ProRes from Compessor look better than ProRes from FCP?

QuickTime 7 player (and even X) may or may not be pipelining clips correctly for playback. Things like having perian installed (for example) can effect this.

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Jeff G

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Jeff Greenberg
August 16, 2011 at 12:08 pm in reply to: Load Avid onto the same boot drive as FCP 6 or 7

Works fine. Has for years. Just don’t jump to lion.

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Jeff G

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Jeff Greenberg
August 16, 2011 at 12:05 pm in reply to: What render settings in Vegas 11 do I use to enable 180 minutes of footage to be compressed onto 4.7gb DVD?

Don’t know the Vegas controls – but 560/# mins = data rate to ‘fit’ on a DVD5 (with the audio being AC3). At 3.1 mb/s, it’s probably not going to look good. Perhaps going to a DVD-9 might be better?

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Jeff G

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Jeff Greenberg
August 16, 2011 at 12:03 pm in reply to: Audio delayed when changing formats & compressing

Don’t use HDV! You’re upscaling to a very lossy codec merely to downscale later.

Also, why are you making a DV file from a lossy starting point? I’d suggest uncompressed (huge) or DVCPro 50.

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Jeff G

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Jeff Greenberg
August 16, 2011 at 12:01 pm in reply to: Terrible Banding in h264 Export (low light film)

Well, the ProRes 4444 file is 10 bit and has enough starting information.

And the 8 bit unc looks ‘acceptable.’ Great.
About the best you can do at this point is see how much compression to h.264 works – both with and without a grain.
I’d start @ 50mb/s h.264 and drop it by 5mbs increments both with and without a grain until you get a version your happy with.

And, what the hell, if you go back, regrade the scenes and brighten up the scenes (I know, heresy!), it’ll probably compress better.

Best,

Jeff G

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Jeff Greenberg
August 16, 2011 at 11:56 am in reply to: Shouldn’t Uncompressed look better than ProRes 422? And why does ProRes from Compessor look better than ProRes from FCP?

Bob, it was confusing…but…

Is there a reason you’re not using Send to Compressor?
Also, QuickTime Player isn’t a great way to measure quality – bring it back into FCP or AE and compare it to the original.

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Jeff G

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Jeff Greenberg
August 16, 2011 at 11:53 am in reply to: what colour space do i use for lagarith intermediate compression?

YV12 is 4:2:0.

I think it depends on what your output format will be as to what colorspace. If you’re in YUV2 (which is 4:2:2), you’ve given the data more room – if you’re in YV12, you’ve given it identical room, as long as nothing more was done to it.

RGB goes through a transform…

So, just off the top of my head, I’d suggest YU2.

Best,

Jeff G

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