[John Pastuch]

Thanks for the reply. I was hoping that wasn’t the only option, but it makes sense.

I have seen other videos on vimeo that use similar noise fx. I contacted one to see what filter he used and am hoping he gets back to me.

[John Pastuch]

Thanks Ivan, you probably saved me hours (or days) of annoyance.

[John Pastuch]

I just imported the clip into the project and you are correct- the PAR is back to DV specs.

I tested it on Windows Media Player and VLC player and that’s when the PAR got messed up. Is Quicktime more exact with PAR? If I wanted to give this file to someone as a standalone, should I export as a lossless quicktime? If so, what’s the best way from PP?

[John Pastuch]

Yo just wanted to say Roland, your video totally saved me for a shoot over the weekend. It was my first time using a mixer going into the h4n and luckily your setup worked beautifully for me, especially because I’m pretty new and it could have ended ugly.

Thanks to you and everyone in the thread for this.

[John Pastuch]

Ah, so I have to convert to square pixels? That was the thing I wasn’t sure about and I didn’t even try because I figured that would mess up the math behind the PAR and the 16×9 fitting into 720×480, but now that I think about it I suppose it makes sense.

Thanks.

[John Pastuch]

Dave-

It was shot interlaced. The problem was that I did not have the field dominance set to Lower and was not replacing the timeline clips (I thought it would change the clips in the timeline too).

Thanks so much. And yes, seeing DV on an HD monitor after editing HD so long is jarring.

-John

[John Pastuch]

I know it’s been a while since this post, but I’m coming back to the mov file and while it plays fine in Quicktime, it still won’t import- how exactly do I export within Quicktime with the same exact quality- everytime I do it, my file size is 100 mb less…

thanks

[John Pastuch]

No- like I said it’s work drive, specifically for FCP projects

[John Pastuch]

It isn’t dropped frames, it’s not that drastic. It’s playing sluggishly and it just started all the sudden. Like I said, on the ext. monitor it plays fine, in FCP it’s sluggish which will be a huge annoyance down the road…

I’m working on an internal work drive with plenty of space, in the DVC/DVPRO codec that’s standard with DV footage. It was all running smooth for a while, now playback on the canvas is choppy.

[John Pastuch]

UPDATE: it actually seems to be affecting the entire timeline, but it seems especially bad in spots with audio AND video…everything is rendered, so I don’t get it. Could those clips be the cause?