[Matt Campbell]

But look on the bright side — when you looked at these “professional” sports DVD’s before you ripped them, did they look all that bad to you?

I wish there was a way I could tell for sure what frame rate of the DVD is. As I step through with Apple DVD player the footage looks the same as when I use the Deinterlace function in Streamclip. I looks progressive.

I guess I’ll stick with the above settings and default frame rate of 29.97. It looks progressive and good in FCP even though the browser tells me it Lower (Even). I guess I can just trick it by changing the field dominance to None. Probably not to correct way to do this but it seems to work.

thanks for your help.

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[Matt Campbell]

sample:

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[Matt Campbell]

Dave I’m unsure how you got the notion that DVD’s were 854×480 — every NTSC DVD on the planet is 720×480 whether it’s 4×3 or 16×9. I’m confident of that because that’s the only standard allowed for authored NTSC DVDs.

Thanks Dave. I know that DVDs are 720×480. I was just curious because when using Export to Quicktime function in Streamclip and selecting ProRes, 854×480 is the default.

Dave That frame sequence is typical of someone trying to use 23.98 footage in a 29.97 timeline. Where’d this stuff come from? You’re just going to have to live with it, I think. Go give the person who did that a dope slap.

Thats awesome. I thought this might be 24p or 23.98 DVDs, but it exports as 29.97. Should I try typing in a frame rate 23.98 in the frame box? These are actually professional sports DVDs. We’re creating an internal mood video to get our employees pumped up about a new project.

I’ve just tried exporting 720×480, deselecting interlaced scaling for progressive footage and brought into FCP. In brower it tells me its Lower (Even) field dominance, but stepping through the clip at an action sequence there’s no interlacing. It looks progressive. When I try a second one, keying in the frame rate I get interlaced spots in the footage. This is so confusing!

I think I’ll trying sticking with 720×480, either checking Deinterlace or unchecking all interlace options for progressive and simply changing the Field Dominance to None in FCP browser. End product with either be DVD or most likely a hiRes H.264 file for Keynote and projection.

Thx for your help Dave.

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[Matt Campbell]

I should add, I’ve tested this quite a bit and with the ProRes 854×480, deinterlaced clips I get decent results. I’m just not sure if there correct results with the duplicate frames and the 2D scaler being used.

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[Matt Campbell]

Wow, thanks all for the insight.

Shane Is this for the WEB? Or is this for DVD or TV?

This is for both web and DVD. Since I wasn’t given the P2 folders, all I have is the original media and finish spots. Since he wants shots that weren’t used in the finished product I have to go back to the footage, already ingested. I’ve been messing around with Cinema tools and it looks like I got correct 24p clips. This will be used for web and DVD. My plan is to keep progressive and simply create a progressive DVD. This is another grey area for me. Whats the norm here? With newer widescreen TVs, I’ve been creating prog DVDs. But what if someone still has a 4×3 TV. Will the DVD player add in pulldown?

Dave Since this video has already been cut and exported as one big clip, you can bet the pulldown cadence is inconsistent from shot to shot

Dave, the master I have is ProRes 1080 24p. And the clips have already been digitized into quicktimes. I wasn’t given the P2 folders. I’m trying to match the clips to the master. As I said above, I think I got it with Cinema tools. thx

Tom Could you report what the Sequence Settings (⌘-0) are and the Item Properties/Format of the clip?

Tom, this info is above, the first image. I clips were DVCPro HD 1080i60i or 30p. Sequence settings were the same but 29.97 when I hit yes, to change sequence settings to match clips settings. I think i’m getting there with Cinema Tools. thx

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[Matt Campbell]

Thanks Dave. I thought it was 60i. If I remember correctly the HVX only shoots true 24p in 720p mode. I.E. 720p24PN.

Regarding the pulldown, since I can’t to this on ingest like you would with DV, would Cinema Tools be best for this? I’ve never used it before. I’ve only messed around with it. I believe the Reverse Telecine function would remove this properly, correct? Or would Compressor work as well?

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[Matt Campbell]

thanks for your help Todd. Greatly appreciated.

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[Matt Campbell]

Thanks Todd. I actually came from a print production background. Kind of a weird transition to video production. I’m well familiar with the conversion but not know the camera, I wasn’t sure how it shoots. Meaning, if the resulting footage are clips or image sequences. This shoot was outsource to a production company. I a FCP user and can export still frames no problem, I guess my question is more on the print production end and how easily will this convert to 300 dpi. I guess we’ll just touch base with the printer then. Thx for your help.

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[Matt Campbell]

great. thx for the advice. I keep forgetting about that tab.

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[Matt Campbell]

Hmmm. I didn’t know that. Thanks. So if I’m editing footage from our HVX 200 in a DVCProHD timeline, would it be best to transcode my masters on export to either ProRes or even 10-bit uncompressed files upon completion, to help minimize further gen loss from the DVCPro HD codec?

I don’t work with tape. We’re completely digital, since most of our material is for presentation videos, web and corporate video. Hardly any broadcast work at all. We farm that out to the big dogs! I simply archive my digital masters to our servers, which gets backed up to LTO tape.

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