[Jon Wendz]

Hmm still struggling to get this right. Any other ideas? :/

[Jon Wendz]

Great quality MP4 files that I can archive on Dropbox, and share with family for their PC use. Maybe YouTube one day…

[Jon Wendz]

Sorry to resurrect and old post, but I ended up not finishing this thread for university reasons (I’m finished with all that now!)

So I’m nearly there with this codec/interlacing thing.

– I’ve used the H.264 format, selecting PAL DV as the profile;
– I’ve hit “Match Source”, but amended the field order to ‘Progressive’ and the Frame Rate to ’50’ (I tried progressive at 25 and it wasn’t smooth);
– Bitrate wise, this is a bit more tricky but from reading the forum I realise having too much bit rate is effectively a waste given the source. I’m just using the preset of VBR 1 pass and 3/6 for the target and maximum;
– Maximum render depth and quality are on;
(See screenshot)

My questions:

1. I cannot tell you how many samples I’ve exported with varying bitrates – I can’t tell that much difference unless I go stupidly low. I’m guessing 3/6 is okay? (I only ask because I only intend on digitizing my 60 odd videos once) ☺
2. If I’m making my video progressive with 50fps, the time interpolation I suppose becomes relevant. I’ve read various threads on here regarding this, but I can’t quite spot the difference between frame sampling, blending and optical flow. Or, is this not used simply because the interlaced fields are just thrown into their own individual frames?
3. The original source has kind of a funny border so I’ve set a crop to it. This then scales the source – is this much a problem quality wise?
4. Is there anything I’ve missed before I start the mammoth export?

Thanks all, I really do appreciate your help!

Jon

[Jon Wendz]

Perfecto! I’ll give that a bash tonight, thanks Jeff.

[Jon Wendz]

Thanks – so for clarification, that’s basically choosing “lower” in the render bit? That’s effectively deinterlacing it right? (Sorry if I’m a bit naive, this is all new to me).

[Jon Wendz]

Nailed it – I think.

The HVEC 265 encoder has no option for lower/upper field. When I reverted to H264 the option was available!

I wonder why it doesn’t support it in the former…

Thanks again all 🙂

[Jon Wendz]

Thank you. I’ll try the first option as I’ve never used AE before and I want to minimise my learning for now ? I’ll let you know how it goes!

[Jon Wendz]

Thanks all.

Chris:
Yes there are exporting lines that appear! I’m slightly confused – what’s Adobe media encoder? Is that essentially the screenshot below? All I want to achieve is on compression, the same great fluidity that the raw avi provides.

Ann:
Perhaps I’m being stupid, but if I select match sequence settings, there’s no option for compression below (it’s all greyed out).

Ignore the YouTube bit, that’s something I’ll do later down the line. For now, I want a nicely compressed MP4, retaining the extra-fluid nature of the original.