Marc Hookerman
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Jeremy, thanks for the informative reply. I will give that a shot when I get home. Qmaster and Compressor have such a delicate relationship. I appreciate your help. Happy Holidays!
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Just an update, I have been going through different scenes and what Dave has mentioned in regards to luminance is correct (Ken Stone also mentioned that is might be causing problems). I had several clips that were far too hot, and thus caused objects to halo and look over processed. I did some color correction as well as capping off the white to safe limits, which helped. I also changed the render settings to 8bit YUV as well. There are a couple of problem scenes that still have black outlines in certain areas, so I am going to go back to the original footage and play it from the tape to see if it was inherited from the original. This footage did come from circa 1995 amateur Video 8 camcorders, so it is very possible it has some gremlins to start with and it was not cause after the fact. This will also expose any flaws with the A-V conversion as well.
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Nicholas, thanks for the reply! I have been told that DVDSP doesn’t do such a hot job, and that I should encode the QT movie to MPEG-2 in compressor and then import it to DVDSP. It is a 60min piece, so DVD 90min best encode should be fine I assume?
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Dave, thanks for the tips. I will give them a shot. I will try a few different export methods as well. You have me anxious though about the A-V converter – I am now wondering if maybe it over-processed the footage and made it too sharp/grainy leading to the black lines and halos around objects.
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Dave, thank you for your kind reply. The video looks fine in FCP (as good as amateur Video 8 footage looks). I don’t notice the black edges, etc during playback in FCP. I will check again and look closely. The only noticeable feature throughout is in some scenes, the white is very hot, but I think that was a result of the consumer based Video 8 camera technology back then.
I am wondering, if the A-V capture did overprocess the footage, what would be the rememdy (if any) besides re-capturing (that would not be fun ;).