Michael Sacci
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Give more info on each step, what is your project settings in Motion, your timeline settings in FCP, and then your Compressor settings. Then how are you viewing the DVD to test quality.
Post a still a sample of your graphic .
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[Austin Reedy] ” although that’s not a good option because everything looks bad that way”
Sounds like you have poorly shot footage.Going to DVD will make things worse, DV (especially bright reds) get blockier under m2v encoding.
The only way things may get better is if you are not viewing the footage and an external monitor.
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There are two ways for a DVD to handle 16:9 video on a 4:3 TV, to letterbox – what you want, or Pan and Scan – what you have. You can check the manual to see if Toast allows you to set the flag to over ride the players setting to letterbox like you can do in DVDSP.
Also check your settings on the DVD player, look for 16:9 setting and change Pan and Scan to Letterbox.
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Make sure that you sequence setting’s field dominance is set to progressive.
Export a ProRes or Uncompressed movie from FCP, at current settings.
In Compressor make sure the m2v preset is set to progressive field dominance and 16:9. If your entire video is less than 60 min. use CBR method of encoding and use 7 Mbps.
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you need to give a lot more info on your sequence and export settings.
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Try your test with a one or two minute movie. H264 is VBR and needs time to fine its grove.
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Also H264 should never be used in editing, especially FCP. In FCP you will never see the true quality because it is not a real time codec. Also the codec does not handle video filters very well, take a look at the shootout videos at Zacuto.com and Gary Adcock’s commend in 3rd video. Unless you are going a quick edit for something and don’t plan on doing any color correcting, you have never your the native H264, even with the new bread of apps, like CS5 and Avid that are made to handle them.
If you are testing out the footage to see what it can do, do yourself a favor and transcode it.
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Media manager for offline/online editing is used if you capture your source tapes at low res, you edit that recapture just the material within the edit at full res. It sounds like you captured your source tapes at full res (DV) and then just edited them on a low res timeline (which is your first problem) there is no reason to to that at all, you are not saving save or time.
If I’m understand it correctly you just have a very flawed workflow. If you have captured the media as offline 320×240 then yes you need to media manage.
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Yellow is video, Black is audio (mono)
If you can try to find a Digital8 camera, most could play back Hi8 tapes. D8 has firewire and would make life a lot simpler and it would even look a little better than composite analog.
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So the video is just matched to the audio from like the CD? If you are cutting a performance that they are lip syncing to I would say it probably does go out a bit every now and then.
If so is the client saying the it is going in and out of sync? It Drifts more out of sync as it plays? It is out of sync at the same rate throughout the video?
How good are you at telling if things are in sync? Have you compared the FCP timeline to the encoded piece?
What codec did you encode it to? what type of system, how fast is the client’s?