Mahesh Upadhyaya
Forum Replies Created
-
The trimmer seems to preserve the marker information. So if an AVI clip is opened in the trimmer, the marker information, including the comments can be viewed.
Now all we need is,
place curser at the marker in the trimmer.
A Script to copy that to the time line.But I suppose that is out of the reach of scripting 🙂
Regards
Mahesh
https://www.crestvideo.co.uk -
A footnote: I know the two guys, Glyn & Greg from Farnham; hence the name G2, who started G2 systems, knew them well. I used to install G2 kit and train TV station techos on all the G2 broadcast graphics units and character generators. In fact I still have a G2 Manuscript CG in our linear suite. Glyn Powell Evans, one of the two G’s went on to found Omnibus Systems who are now one of the major suppliers of system automation infrastructures to broadcasters the world over. It’s a small world!
That is amazing. I do not know the 2 G’s. I think I met one of them at a video show, about 7 years ago, and I was sold on the converter system. Apparently they also made a plug-in module for it which would interpolate over 6 frames. As BBC held the patent, the plug-in was quite expensive and way out of my budget.Regards
Mahesh
https://www.crestvideo.co.uk -
Chris
You have nearly sold me on the idea. This project is going to be a series of, 6-10, 30 minute slots but most of the footage is a talking head (verrrry boring ). The SW is a bit pricey at 350 GB pounds.
Couple of questions:
What would be the transcoding time for NTSC/PAL conversion?Have you used it for MPEG2, VBR/CBR encoding? How good and how fast?
TIA
Regards
Mahesh
https://www.crestvideo.co.uk -
Thanks Chris for a very informative post. Looks like Procoder is the way to go. Unfortunately I would not be able to handle the learning curve at this stage. I have a stand-alone G2 standards converter (cost $2000 seven years ago). It is good but its temporal (movement) interpolation is only 2 frames. Subjectively, Vegas is just as good but I can work in DV domain all the way thro’in Vegas.
I think I will go with Vegas for this batch of jobs, but definitely explore Procoder 2.Regards
Mahesh
https://www.crestvideo.co.uk -
Thanks Allen for a detailed response.
I have successfully used PTT using the default NTSC template to convert a PAL project to NTSC once before so I know that method works. I would just use the default NTSC template again to PTT.
I have an analogue Standards Converter which I normally use for analogue NTSC/PAL/SECAM conversions.
I could always use this to convert. This entails feeding Vegas to a PAL DV device – output of PAL DV device to Anlogue input of converter- Analogue output of converter to analogue input of NTSC DV device. This will ofcourse produce some quality loss.I have decided to use Vegas to convert. I know that means much longer render times but hopefully the quality will be maintained.
I was goping to get a small used PAL camcorder and capture the video into DV Film Atlantis to convert to NTSC before bringing it into Vegas for editing. But I haven’t had the time to do all that. I’m retiring in 15 months so then I’ll ahve time for that stuff.
Don’t you believe that Allen. I took early retirement to persue this hobby/profession, 7 years ago, and I have less and less time to do things I would like:)Next problem: How to make an NTSC DVD from a PAL master tape of a wedding I did 3 years ago!
Do I capture analogue converted NTSC, or convert to NTSC AVI, or see if Mainconcept can render PAL AVI to NTSC MPEG2.Regards
Mahesh
https://www.crestvideo.co.uk -
Thanks Allen for responding.
I have made 2 or 3 successful conversions in the past. I was really looking for confirmation to
1- Can I use the default NTSC template to PTT
2- Do I need to use broadcast color filter for broadcast use.TIA
Regards
Mahesh
https://www.crestvideo.co.uk -
I have seen this effect too. If there is some zoom or tilt on the pan/crop, movement gets jaggy. ( we used to call it venetian blind effect in the old analogue days).
I would welcome a tried-n-tested setting for zooms/tilts in pan & crop which compensates movement. -
Just a quick note to thank Edward Troxel for sorting the problem out me.
Regards
Mahesh
https://www.crestvideo.co.uk -
-
Edward
That is what I thought.
When I say jumbled up, the active take remains but other takes are not related to the time domain. Bet that does not make sense. Putting it other way, all non-active takes default to an unrelated portion of the entire event.
As I said, this only occured on one veg file. Other was fine. It was probably one-off.Regards
Mahesh
https://www.crestvideo.co.uk