Michael Sacci
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A lot of different info going on here. If you are going to SD tape you are going interlace. You can set the pull down scheme in the Kona Control Panel to be 2:3:3:2 which should allow for a cleaner pull down removal when you capture the footage from the SD tape to get it back to 23.98p.
[Ted Joyce] “can I anamophically squeeze it to 4:3” with compressor there is never a reason to do this, it should be 16:9 anamorphic (1.2 aspect ratio).
[Ted Joyce] ” For reviewing copies it is hard to beat the speed of realtime playback into a standalone DVD burner.”
Why not go from the HD timeline to the DVD Recorder to burn your DVDs?Personally I would make HDCAM tapes which can be 23.98.
[Ted Joyce] ” I transferred the 15 year old 4:3 16mm film anamorphically filling the entire 16X9 HD frame.”
In doing this you have to be cropping the top and bottom of the image off. This is not a right or wrong thing but a is that what you wanted thing. When you down convert the HD to SD with a center crop you loss some off the right and left, so you are left with a center punch of the image that was on the film. You have lose some off the top, bottom, left and right. -
The ref movie method, saves several steps plus it retains the time code from the original clips.
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Quickest, easiest way is to just get a DVD recording and play the deck into it. There are models that have component in and are pretty good quality but…
the menus suck, they are the tacky thumbnail of each video. not much control over that.
Other way is to capture, encode and author.
But to do 10 hours should take more then 20-30 hours to do real way.
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Yes, if you are going from 4:3 to 16:9 you have to lose a lot of the image, top and bottom, no way around that.
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Never use the REF movies to edit with, if you move or rename the folders the link can be broken and then it is hell to fix it.
What I do, Do the Make Ref. Movie on the firestore.
Copy all the content from the FS to your Hard Drive. Open the Ref files in QT Player, do a save as and make Self Contained.This does 2 things, gives you the solid QT movie that you are looking for with having to rely on the linking back to all the other small files. Then for an added bonus you now have a extra backup of your files, you don’t edit with your master clips.
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[Marni Page] “Nobody puts it this directly, but dare I say that the NTSC standard IS in fact the standard for international DVD distribution? “
I don’t think I would put it that way, I think what most people say is the if you are in NTSC world and you want to release your title in the rest of the world there MAY not be a reason to make a PAL version. I’m not sure how this holds up in smaller, less developed markets.
Do you normally shoot PAL or NTSC? Where are you located?
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I would not unconverted this to HD, if all you need to do is to make the DVD. Not a good use of money at all.
There are tricks to get better results for a DV master, by doing a going up to a higher color space, 4:2:2 vs 4:1:1 and the doing a couple of tweaks.
If you are sending this out to be authored, I would love the opportunity to quote on it.
my email is onthecow (at) michaelangelodv (dot) com
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Bring the file back into FCP and check the pixel dimensions in the bin.
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Well if you have to convert 4:3 footage to 16:9 there is a lot of scaling that has to take place, there is a big hit on quality. To convert this you would have to rip the DVD to an editing codec. DV is never a good idea, ProRes or DVCPro50 are much better choices. Then you bring this into FCP place the footage in an anamorphic sequence and go to the motion tab and scale the footage 133% and Distort: Aspect Ratio 33. May need to go a bit higher on the scale to crop out black edges. Then you export With Compressor to make your 16:9 mpeg2 program stream.
I don’t know of a one step process since you are changing aspect ratio.
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Why are you going out to tape if your end result is DVD. Use Compressor to Downconvert as it does the m2v encode. Use 24p to keep the frame rate and progressive frames.