[Michael Magallon]

If Money is no object, then Ateme, Rhozet and Digital Rapids are the encoders our facility use. We also use supporting software like Manzanita, Cerify and Sencore.

Obviously the trick is knowing what software to use with specific outputs/codecs.

Lastly, if quality is also needed, there is software to stay away from when trying to output specific codecs… far away

The above are enterprise level solutions only and do not take into account all archival, mezzanine level outputs.

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[Michael Magallon]

So what did you end up doing?

Share the knowledge 🙂

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[Michael Magallon]

Ah, ok! That would answer why they didn’t answer my inquiry.

Well then I will wait for the AJA update to handle HD/SD CC…

Best!

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[Michael Magallon]

MPEG2 PAL field dominance is TFF.

He is creating an MPEG2 file, not a PAL DV file.

“The problem is I have a clip with a small wind turbine which is spinning very fast. Aster encoding and authoring a DVD using DVD studio pro 4 this one clip looks bad, very bad. What am I doing wrong ”

However, the above comment is a little vague, so I will wait on responding further until he gives us more details. Does it look bad on a CRT, LCD, plasma or your computer monitor? Is the motion jittery on pans or is the overall quality not acceptable to your standards?

But please show a little courtesy Daniel Low, as I do to everyone on this board.

Thanks!

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[Michael Magallon]

Hey Tony,

You can already do that with the Matrox MXO2!

We are currently testing it for some of our workflows and it can capture CC’s (HD and SD). It can also output CC’s via FCP sequence! It is an AWESOME FEATURE!

However, if you receive CC files in the form of .scc, .sami, .cap, etc. you will need to use a application developed my CPC called Mac Captions. You then take your CC file and Mac Captions will export the required file to play out via FCP sequence.

Check it out. All the claims are true and we use the Evertz to verify CC;s for HD and SD. Works like a charm!

https://www.cpcweb.com/mxo2/

Our facility as invested a lot of money on AJA Kona cards however, so once AJA releases their update to support CC pass-through, we will be all over that.

One of my inquiries with Matrox however was how they develop their ProRes HQ algorithm? Did they work in conjunction with Apple how AJA did? Do they just piggyback off FCS’s CODECs?

They could not give me a definitive answer, so that worries me. That’s another reason why we want to wait for AJA. In the meantime, we bought 1 MXO2 and so far I’m impressed, except for my unanswered questions…

We’ll see…

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[Michael Magallon]

Doesn’t work for AJA Kona yet. CPC is working closely with AJA (as they did with Matrox) to have the VANC in HD and VBI in SD pass-through (already allowed by AJA with Kona software upgrade 6.0.3).

At NAB, a representative form AJA stated that they are in the final testing phases with CPC to finalize a HD CC solution.

My only grip about the MXO2 is that it only supports 8 channels of embedded audio.

My only grip about AJA Kona, no VANC pass through, yet.

I can’t wait for the update from AJA to be able to pass-through HD CC’s!

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[Michael Magallon]

sorry, didn’t answer your question directly, change ONLY these values:

_width=720
_height=480

to

_width=1920
_height=1080

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[Michael Magallon]

Oh, duh, my bad, you did say HD.

Yeeah you can change the values OR you can use the supplied preset as a starting point and build from there.

I built the rod, now learn to fish 🙂

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[Michael Magallon]

As Daniel said, why deinterlace? More than likely, there is no interfield motion in your frames (i don’t know what camera you shot with), which makes deinterlacing a moot point.

Anyway, to directly answer your specific question:
The field order is getting swapped.

Here is an updated summary of what you should do.

Encoder
MPEG2
Video format pal
Frame rate 25
16:9
Bottom first (CHANGE TO TOP FIELD FIRST)
2 pass vbr 5.5 7.2 (CHANGE AVERAGE TO 6.4 Mbps, MAXIMUM TO 7.5 Mbps)

Frame controls (ALL FRAME CONTROLS OFF)
Resize filter better (liner)
Output fields same as source
deinterlace fast liner averaging

Adaptive details checked

Let us know if this helps.

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[Michael Magallon]

Believe me I understand, just trying to spitball ideas 🙂

Anyway, your laptop should just stay as is. I totally forgot about ffmpegX! Yes this should work with your files.
It will be a lengthy transcode though. ffmpegX uses mplayer to decode the 422p@whatever level and then mencoder to encode.

The only problem is that ffmpegX does NOT use QT API’s for output. What does this mean, your only output option is DV/HDV.

Use this nifty preset that I quickly created to test on the Mac. Just create a new text document using TextEdit, copy and paste the below and rename the extension to whateveryouwant.ffx:

ffmpegX Preset File
_version=14

_encoder=ffmpeg
_video=true
_videoformat=13
_width=720
_height=480
_ratio=8
_videobitrate=25000
_framerate=NTSC (29.97)

_gopsize=240
_minq=2
_maxq=15
_highquality=true
_iframes=false
_bframes=false
_fourmotion=false
_twopass=true
_profile=0
_qtdecode=false
_split=false
_chunks=0
_author=false
_authorformat=0
_deinterlace=false

_croptop=0
_cropbottom=0
_cropleft=0
_cropright=0

_audio=true
_audioformat=5
_audiobitrate=1411
_audiosampling=48000
_audiogain=0
_audiochannels=0
_audiomode=0
_invertmap=false

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