[Lee O.]

Not sure what you mean by “podcasts don’t care about broadcast legal luma values.” If it looks bad, it looks bad, on my monitor, on my TV, and on YouTube.

I’m trying to find out with my questions above if I’m on the right track here about how to precisely compensate for my out of range blacks and whites.

[Lee O.]

Oh, awesome! I know it feels good to figure something out. 🙂

[Lee O.]

D j Harris,

Cool. I WANT to have the latest version of everything (Win10, CC 2017, etc.), but I don’t NEED to, and I’m terribly risk averse when it comes to getting relatively clunky software and hardware working right. If some feature comes along I just have to have (better deinterlacing?), I’ll make the jump. But right now I’m thinking I’ll stick where I am until I at least get the most important of my old tapes archived. I dunno. We’ll see. Right now I’m more concerned about seeing if it’s worth the effort to use uncompressed 720×486 files and convert them properly to 720×480. Baby steps, right? 🙂

[Lee O.]

Thanks, Chris! (And Gary.) Sorry for this slow response. Life issues intervened this past week.

RE: deinterlacing…

-The free avisynth QTGMC Deinterlacing Script is intriguing for being free, but looks like it has a learning curve that might keep me from ever actually proceeding with my archiving project. Also, I’m not sure how to integrate it into a Premiere workflow.
-I’ve seen Fieldskit mentioned here and there quite positively, and as a plug-in to Premiere I have a fighting chance of figuring it out and using it. Maybe I should start another thread regarding how to use it in my workflow. Like, when exactly would one apply the deinterlacing? Completely separately to export a new version of a video? Within a progressive sequence? That’ll take some figuring out, but as much as Premiere’s simplistic deinterlacing bothers me, it’ll be worth the effort and $89, I think.

RE: 4:2:2 editable format at decent bitrate…

-I suppose I just need to experiment with what’s available in Adobe Media Encoder, maybe ask this question in the AME forum. I hadn’t considered ProRes with it being an Apple format and me being on a PC. I don’t guess that actually matters. Like I said, I’d use Matrox’s MPEG-2 I-frame 4:2:2 codec, since it honestly looks quite good, but I’m mad at Matrox for dropping support for my MXO2 mini, and I’d rather not rely on their codec into the future. And I only ever considered the standard DV codec and it’s poorer color subsampling because it so universal and recognized by everything. If I make ProRes files for future editing from my uncompressed captures, that should work well, yes? I’ll keep some tapes uncompressed if they’re special or if I know I’ll finish with them soon.

Thanks for the help!!!

[Lee O.]

Chris,

Thanks for your answers, but maybe I put too much in my questions or wrote it badly. My uncompressed capturing is working perfectly. My exported h.264 files are fine except I don’t love the de-interlacing. The Snell stuff you mentioned is definitely overkill. I should probably make the de-interlacing question a separate topic altogether, maybe on the After Effects forum.

Like I said, I may have written my questions in a confusing manner. I’m capturing to uncompressed, then making DVD compatible files from that, then also making h.264 YouTube files with the default settings from the uncompressed (I never plan to edit with the h.264 files), and then I’d like to save out another file from the uncompressed in an editable but reasonably sized (~25Mbps like DV) file format that’s not Matrox specific but preserves the color better than DV.

[Lee O.]

Hi Ann,

I’m capturing uncompressed with my Matrox MXO2 mini just fine. And I’m already familiar with creating DVDs, as well as the basic de-interlacing on export. I’m looking for more specific answers to these questions. Thank you, though!

[Lee O.]

If your DVDs are also PAL, it should work like a charm.

[Lee O.]

Yeah, I’d either send it out to a pro dub house, or I’d re-create the footage with someone else’s baby. 😉

[Lee O.]

Gareth,

Is your footage already on DVD-Rs? If so, just copy the .vob files from the VIDEO_TS folder on the DVD-R to your computer, change the file extension to .mpg, and drop them into an NTSC timeline. No capturing necessary.

[Lee O.]

As a hardware nerd who DOES build his own PCs, I agree with Dave and David! For me, building a PC is an enjoyable endeavor, but subtle issues can crop up and waste ENORMOUS amounts of time. When I built my current PC, a bad RAM slot on the motherboard required a return to Newegg.com, and when I returned the board, I accidentally left the aftermarket CPU cooler’s backing bracket attached. DOH! And I’ve been building PCs for ages and was considered a “gifted” child! LOL! 😉