Mark Postma
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I believe that vegas saves it in the proper DV aspect ratio. Photoshop normally edits square pixels so it looks “squeezed”. I think someone said the new photoshop software lets you set the aspect ratio of the image to correct this. Anyone?
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Answer to question #2: Rotoscoping – some applications allow you to do rotoscoping (cutting out areas) using splines and you can fudge the frame-by-frame, but frame-by-frame touchup of the points is usally done anyway or it starts to look bad.
The key to making it faster is to belong to a production house that does it all the time – and practice. There aren’t a lot of shortcuts for something like that. POST production is a time and labor intensive job.
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In other words, copying a file from one drive to another does not change it at all.
Moving a file into something like AE and doing work CAN reduce the quality. Every time you RENDER a file that has modifications you risk degrading the image some because it has to re-create the image. Copying a file does not “recreate” it, just duplicates it. Whether or not you can actually TELL that the quality has changed depends on how intently you study it, whether you properly applied changes, and so forth. Normally when you move from one app to another to do changes it is to enhance the footage in some way, so the enhancements should outweigh any degradation you get from re-encoding.
Rendering from Avid or Vegas to DVD most likely has to do with the quality settings and the codec that is used to encode the DVD rather than the NLE itself. Different NLEs have different default quality levels for rendering to a DVD compliant file (MPG2). Small things can be done to improve the final output to DVD. I have heard that adding just a tiny “sharpen” to the final edit before rendering to MPG makes it a little more crisp and compensates for the natural “softening” that conversion to an MPG file causes, but bitrates are a big part of it as well.
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You can also set your preview window to “auto draft” and although it may get pixellated it should flow smoother.
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A little more. Progressive does not give you “higher quality” in all circumstances. Progressive gives you “higher quality” on progressive displays. Digital displays are generally progressive. Your standard “tube” TV is an interlaced format, and the interlaced format was partially developed for smoothness of motion. Progressive tends to get “stroby” during movement at certain speeds, interlaced looks smoother, but not quite as crisp. So, it is a trade off.
The key is, as someone mentioned, what are your customers working with, what are they broadcasting, and what do THEY require from YOU.
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Sorry…should have clarified…HDV is capturable (compressed MPEG2), but HD (uncompressed) is not capturable through the firewire.
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It should be pretty straight forward – just capture with the camcorder plugged into the firewire. However, you will NOT be able to do HDV, only standard def capture.
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One more option may be to use a remote to pause the front camera during times you don’t need the shot. Granted, you can’t track how much record time is left remotely, but you could stagger WHEN you are recording if your remote has a long enough reach.
Postal
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Remember, they aren’t just paying for the end product, they are paying for your time, your equipment, your expertise, and so forth. Make sure you bill what you would earn doing other things with the same amount of time.
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The space issue can be a problem. I would send you a picture of how we have ours, but I’m away from home right now and won’t be back in town for a few more days.
I just found a pretty good spot for it, but not all cameras will have an opening like that. The wondercam does sound interesting.