[Jon Silverberg]

I’ve actually been very dissatisfied with the quality of the scaling that final cut does in this manner. Also, I’m trying to get a 24p ‘look’ and that would leave this off.

I’ve been testing various methods and it seems like what looks the most convincing is outputting the sequence as a 480i60 prores quicktime, putting it in a sequence, and using MB Frames to get the 24 p look.

The file I ran through compressor using the insanely high settings
Retiming: (Best) High quality Motion Compensated
Resize Filter: Statistical Prediction
Deinterlace Filter: Best (Motion Compensated)
Adaptive Details: On

Came out with very strange glitches in one scene that was using a flicker effect. Of course other than that it looks spectacular. Bummer.

[Jon Silverberg]

Unfortunately the 24fps version is just an H.264 for the web and won’t be suitable for broadcast.

The problem is complicated by the fact that we used several effects for slow motion that used sequential fields played individually at 30 to give smooth slow mo from 60i footage.

Currently, I’m attempting to export the sequence through compressor as a 480p24 movie. Compressor offers motion adaptive scaling and rate changing and hopefully all i’ll have to do is add pulldown to that and i’ll have something that looks good.

The Aja is another idea, but I don’t have the budget for hardware on this project and I don’t have one myself. I would have to call in a favor for that one, but i’d rather keep it in house.

Does anyone have any experience with compressor to make these changes? (it better look good it’s taking 20 hours to render 3 minutes on an 8 core mac pro!)