Mike Salerno
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That’s great advice. This is our 2nd HD project, so we are still learning the ropes. With your workflow, what codec would you use to compress out of FCP, to acheive the 4:4:4 lossless? The new apple Pro-res codec, or is there something else? Also, you would play the file off a laptop then connect RGB or HDMI to the projector? Thanks for the advice!
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Our client makes projectors, and for this tradeshow, they want the video we created playing through their projector. Their engineers decided on the workflow; still not sure how its going to pan out. As for tests in our studio, we mastered our uncompressed footage to D5, and ran SDI through a teranex server (can’t remember exactly) then ran HDMI to the projector.
Our client watches over the quality like a hawk, as he wants it as pristine as can be, since our video is supposed to be showing how great the projector actually looks.
We usually just master uncompressed to D5 and it gets encoded elsewhere, on most of the HD projects we’ve done.
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I believe I solved the problem; Our editor had our sequence settings on field order: “Upper”. I changed it to “None” and got rid of our interlacing problems.
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I looked into the projector and it’s the JVC D-LA HD1; I believe it converts 1080i to 1080p on the fly; Our editor created all graphics interlaced as well. I wonder if it’s the 1080i to 1080p that is causing the stuttering / blur issues.
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Yes, we rendered before playout and it’s a 29.97 framerate. The HD monitors don’t have an SDI input which we usually run from the D5, so we downconvereted to an SD monitor and also had FCP ingest the mastered D5 tape back in to check it. We are a small agency w/ a small broadcast dept. so we don’t have everything we need at our disposable I suppose.
My money is on the projector too, but our client makes the projector 🙂 I am not sure how their engineers are working the D5 to Projector issue, all I know is it’s a 30,000:1 contrast ratio..
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Actually, I take that back- the graphics in our HD monitor statement; Last 2 weeks have been fuzzy late nights.
We had a freelance editor in creating everything for us, and whenever it was time for a review, he would render out a uncompressed quicktime file and everything looked pristine and the client would sign off on that.
Normally, we always review on our JVC HD LCD; I believe there was some motion blur in the text when we viewed (after the facct) on the HD LCD. I still don’t understand why the uncompressed motion graphics would cause an issue though; Is it the motion lag on LCD’s?
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We created all the graphics in motion and imported the files into FCP. The graphics looked fine on our HD monitor.
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Sorry, I should have been more clear.
Yes, a clip is selected when I go to press Command R, however, it does not render the clip (even though it obviously needs to be rendered). I get the “writing video” message, but it dissapears so quickly, I can’t even read it, and the clip stays unrendered, even those the command has been hit.
I can only use option R to render all. I can’t render a single clip using command R
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Thanks Matt-
A follow up question would be- What would be the best way to create anamorphic 16:9. When I check the Anamorphic 16:9 box in the sequence settings and drop my letterboxed test clip in the timeline, the clip doesn’t even fill the title safe guides.
Do you suggest creating anamorphic in FCP (if so, what are the correct steps to take), or should I stretch in compressor using a 16:9 encode?
Thanks
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PS- we are using Pro-max / Satamax 2.5TB Raid stripped across 20 drives and running FCP 5.1