Michael Sacci
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Your video needs to be 640×360 (not 480) to keep the 16:9 aspect ratio. Go to the Geometry Button and set the Dimensions (encoded pixels) to 640×360 and you should be good to go.
There is nothing wrong with Export?Using Compressor from FCP, it takes longer and ties up FCP but it gives you the best results, so if you have the time go right ahead on do it.
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Macbooks don’t have FW800 on them, and the newest ones don’t even have FW400. FW400 and USB2 are close to the same spec speed but FCP and video likes FW400 better somewhat better.
Cineform, Sorenson V3, H.264…. these are not editing codecs so you don’t want transcode the video to any of these.
If you need to transcode footage another option is DVCProHD, it will playback better from your drive over ProRes and takes less processing power than HDV. And is available in FCP 5.
my 2 cents.
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decks will not do this. if you record anamorphic to any tape deck you will need a TV that has a 16:9 mode on it to display it correctly and you have to set that manually, the decks are dumb with regards to aspect ratio of the source.
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[Sebastian Plamadeala] “How do they do it that they can fit a full feature film of 1,8 hors add a bunch of extras, pictures, chapter menus, etc, on one simple DVD (no HD DVD, no DL, no BlueRay, a few years ago, these didn’t exist), with high quality product. What compression do they use? “
Well, 1st, they are normally on DVD-9s (8.5GB), the encoders are systems that cost 10s of thousands of dollars. The source material is of the highest quality, The last 2 things are something you will never be able to match and most peoples budgets. But that does not mean that quality is beyond our control.First you need source material that is well light, well color corrected with blacks down to zero and dynamic rate as wide as possible. If the source video is noisy the m2v video will be worse. Then you need to test encoding with what you have. Get a bitrate calc so you know how high of a bitrate you can use for a given project. Understand 2 hours is about the limit for high quality on a DVD-5 (DVD-R) and your audio needs to be encoded as ac3 @ .192 Mbps for stereo to give the most room for the video.
If you still are not getting the quality you need (and if your source material is high quality) then you need to look into stand alone encoders. I’m on a Mac so I really don’t want to suggest what you should get because I don’t use PC software.
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That would be a question for the broadcaster. I know with PBS stations when you deliver an anamorphic tape there is no telling how it will be broadcasted. In Nashville one PBS will letterbox it and the other will center crop it, with no regards to the content, they will crop titles and not look back. To my knowledge no way is broadcasting 16:9 anamorphic SD video.
The only widely available device that does this is a DVD player and not broadcaster. HD is 16:9, SD is 4:3.
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It is your drive not your computer that cannot handle the 6 streams. FW800 will struggle with any codec out there. But has long as the TC is exactly the same it should be no problem. We don’t offline anymore but in the old days we would capture DV, edit, then recapture just the timeline as Uncompressed SD.
So if you transcode all the footage to the new codec, with the same names but to a Offline RT folder, do you edit, take footage offline when down, reconnect to the original footage.
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Don’t use (HQ) just standard ProRes will work. You will need to install the play only codec on each system, which is available for free for both Macs and PCs.
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There are 3 levers Background with thumb, eyes and then mouth. Looks like the eyes and mouth are masked out with feathered edges.
I would put to black dots on the thumb to track the position of the eyes and mouth.
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Is your problem a blur or jitter?
MPEG 2 – m2v Extention – Pal – 16:9 – Top First Field Dominance –
Two pass VBR best – Average bit rate 7.6 – Maximum 8.9 – motion estimation at best
Gop Structure set to IBBP closed size 12If you can use a high average like this, encoding as VBR is a total waste of time. Encode as CBR @ 7 Mbps. You also need to make the audio ac3. This will give you better DVD-R playback.
I’m not in PAL land but is DVCPro50 Upper/Top field?
This is then imported to DVDSP and subsequently burnt. When playing on TV’s (and only tvs mind) their is a slight juddery blur to movement, its not interlacing as far as i can see but is still VERY offputting.
Why do you think it is not an interlace problem?
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This should be in the DVDSP forum vs. FCP.
Yes you can do it with DVD@ccess.
It is NEVER recommended that it be used. There is software that has to be turned on in QT for Macs. For PCs software has to be installed. In short it doesn’t work very well on PCs. Nobody is using this feature anymore, Hollywood titles tried it for a while (with other software, which has been discontinued) but they stopped used it several years back.