Michael Gissing
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PAL is my system, but a thought to try is to nest your sequence into a 1080 60i timeline and try to send to compressor from there. A small test might show if that helps.
I am guessing that a DVD m2v might be happier from an interlaced project. I capture 25p into 1080 50i and make DVD’s in SD with good results using compressor.
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As a facility that outputs a music video show each week for network TV, can you PLEASE make both a Full Height (anamorphic) version as well as the letterbox. Put them on the same tape as well. Each week we take 4:3 letterbox clips and zoom them 130% cause the networks won’t accept 4:3 letterbox. So each week we see big budget 35 mm clips looking like VHS when they are zoomed.
Someone needs to tell the clip makers what the broadcasters want. I am working in PAL in Australia, but anywhere in the world full height can be made into a 4:3 letterbox without grief, but the other way kills your clip.
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Are you both using version 7 QT? The main change from QT6 to Qt7 was the audio. If your client has FCP4.5, chances are he is on QT6.
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I see a few reasons to shoot HDV. Firstly when you want a cost effective HD final product for broadcast. Secondly when you want a small discreet handy cam shoot for standard def. Thirdly when you want to get as close to SD digi beta but can’t afford digi beta.
If you want to shoot the best you can in standard def, then digi beta wins. The Canon HDV comes closest to digi beta in SD and also closest to HDCam in HD. But HDV is not the best format for either SD or HD, just the most cost effective.
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I have a DVD recorder with firewire input. It is an obscure brand, sourced through Prodisc in Sydney, Australia. I am sure there are other manufacturers that have firewire input stand alone DVD recorders.
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Sebsky tools and bwf2xml make quicktimes from your bwf files with the embedded timecode transfered.
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Might sound crazy, but the info I have seen says it is robust, available now without the large scale retooling that blue ray requires. Also it is cheap as current DVD players will require only minor mods to be compatible.
Also when blu ray is more mature, they can do multi layer in blue ray with capacities getting towards 200 gig.
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Reverb can’t be eliminated, but selective EQ can help. Often there will be frequencies that are amplified by an accoustic. Big spaces tend to amplify in lower frequencies, so try a narrow notch (HiQ factor) around 120 – 200 hz. Often that will get some of the boomy mudiness out of the dialog. If that helps, try harmonics from 220- 400. Again, fairly narrow notches, or you take the guts out of the dialog.
Forget noise gates. They are just pumping machines that make everything sound wrong. If you know what you are doing with frequency based downward expanders, then you might make a further small improvemnet. Devices like the CEDAR DNS 1000 do this. However, nothing yet can deconvolute so the moral is don’t record in a large concrete box if you don’t want the reverb. The analogies of out of focus or bad framing are good.
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Looks like Toshiba is trying to cover the bases. An alternative red laser technology for HD DVD, called VMD is making moves with movie producers in Europe, India, China and recently Hollywood. I think they are up to 8 layers but say 20 is possible.
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I suspect a mismatch between the capture settings and the sequence settings. The one that always gets me is making sure the anamorphic is ticked on the file, before dropping into an anamorphic sequence.