[Michael Rosing]

If you started at 640 x 480, you should keep top field first all the way through. Make sure After Effects is interpreting your footage as top field first, render it out as top field first, then select interlaced and top field first in Bitvice.

Also, what codec are you rendering to in After Effects? Some codecs have their own field order dialog boxes, so you have to check that,too.

I use Cleaner to stretch M100 640 x 480 movies to 720 x 480 using the motion JPEG B codec, and keep it top field first. Then go to Bitvice. That works great. I don’t use the DVNC or ‘studio rgb’ setting, and it looks fine.

“Hey Pauly, Don’t I need to select “interlaced” if I’m coming from a M100 8.2.2 640X480 orig. It’s scaled in AE to 720 and switched to lower field. I’ve tried 8 and 10 bit quality and settings of 0 or 20 DVNC – none of which help the look or diversely effect compression time. Could the gamma boost and DV Color boost be causing video anomalies and noise around titles that looks like the “Predator” cloaking effect? Thanks, Chris K.”

[Michael Rosing]

What if you edited the program using quicktime 7 on the mac…will the transcoder still work on that on the PC using quicktime 6.5, or must you edit on the Mac in quicktime 6.x also?

Thanks

“The iFinish transcoder does not work with QuickTime 7 on a PC. If you are using QT7 you either have to downgrade to QuickTime 6.5 to use the Transcoder or to use another codec”

[Michael Rosing]

One way is to run your entire program through After Effects. It has a text generator that will superimpose timecode.

Another way would be to make a timecode movie in AE and key it in Media 100.

[Michael Rosing]

I’ve seen this too, especially on complex scenes.
One solution is to set the quality to a bit below half. The quality slider is non-linear, and you will still get a good picture.