Jeremy Garchow
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No, FCP will not transcode your dv footage to 8 bit over firewire.
Take this footage out to After Effects and render it there. You will get the best software results from AE, unless you have shake.
Compressor 2 will do a pretty nice job as well. Start the 8 bit NTSC or PAL advanced format conversion preset.
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You can do this out of fcp just like you would quicktime by using quicktime conversion, or you can take it to a compressor, set up a preset, apply the preset to your exported video and hit go.
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Okay, great ideas, but you are shooting yourself in the foot(age).
Uncompressed 8 bit footage has a frame size of 720×486. I imagine that you shot dv, which has a frame size of 720×480. You are seeing the 6 pixel difference on the top and bottom. When dvds get compressed they go down to 720×480. You should remove all of the resizing from your fcp comp so that the frames fit in the 720×486 with the black on top and bottom. When you go to make the dvd, it will automatically cut off the black at the top and bottom as it crops the image to 720×480.
Make sense?
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You will only gain anything by doing this if you have a bunch of titles and graphics to rerender in 10 bit. DV is compressed at the time it hits the tape so rerendering in 10 bit does not magically make it better. Some will argue that digitizing dv over SDI into 10 bit will result in a better image. Some will argue that this is hogwash, I encourage you to find out for yourself what you think on that subject.
SInce you have already transferred from SUper 8 to dv, the 10 bit render is super unnecessary. Stick with editing dv unless you get a deck with SDI to try the proposed theory above, OR, you project is riddled with graphics and text, or you are doing anything except transferring 8 to DV. How did you do that transfer by the way?
In the olden days (pre quicktime 7), apple did not have a codec that supported hd color space, so blackmagic modified the apple codec to include hd color space for people that were working with HD years ago. Since apple has included the HD color space with the onset of quicktime 7, blackmagic has switched to using the apple codecs as the default codec. The apple codec if fine to use if you must, but DV should suit you just fine for this kind of situation.
In really simple terms 601 refers to the color space of SD video. 709 refers to HD, it a system of numbers that engineers came up with in the labs when staring at waveforms vectorscopes while doing math on an abacus.
Hope all this helps.
Jeremy
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Well, what sizing issues are you talking about? I think that you have resized a 720×486 signal to a 720 x 480 signal and you are getting break up. If the video is coming out bad on your beta, then it’s going out bad to compressor.
Tell me exactly what you did with the “resizing issues” and we’ll go from there.
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Yes. I find the 1200a upconvert to be a little cleaner, but the Kona 2 upconvert feature is great if you don’t have the 1200A laying around.
Jeremy
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10.3.8 & qt 6.5.2
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Did you do a simple upgrade from 4 to 5 and panther to tiger, quicktime 6 to 7, rather than a clean install?
If yes, go here:
https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301852
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Are you viewing this material on a crt monitor? If so you will have to change the pixel aspect ratio, (square to non square).
What program did you use to encode the mp4s? What recipe did you use? What’s the frame size?
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Yeah, no prob. When you search, make sure to turn on the archives on the bottom part of the search window. It goes back to 2001.