Joe Catanzano
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Hmmm, got one possible thing to add:
In your setup, I didn’t see a RAID controller card mentioned anywhere. What kind of disk speed is the BM speed test giving you on whatever scratch you are using? Is it just a software stripe of internal disks?
Just might be worth looking into, depending on what sort of material you plan on grading!
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Hi Richard,
Another option to consider, though it certainly isn’t free. Bring your movie to a post/finishing house that can do a hardware down-conversion for you. Though you will, of course, pay a fee, you can end up with two things. First, the digi-beta master necessary for submission to many festivals/broadcast. Second, have them create an 8-bit uncompressed anamorphic file for you, which you can compress to mpeg2. This way, you won’t be paying the enormous cost of professional authoring, but the hardware downconversion will make the difference in aliasing/edging that you are noticing.
If you need a hand with specific machinery to request or houses which can do the conversion, let me know.
-joe