[Mr_steven]

Thanks Tim.

If I render out at SD in After Effects, should I set up the project as an SD project and scale it down to fit ? Thats usually how I do it in Premiere, I get a better result that way.

Thanks,

Steven.

[Mr_steven]

Thanks guys, I’ll give that a try too.

[Mr_steven]

Vince,

Is it better to do the conversion (interlaced to progressive) in After Effects ?, and if so do you know of any good online tutorials ?

I’ve heard there are different methods, one being that you use the 3:2 pulldown, which I’ve not attempted before, or should I post this question in the after effects forum ?

Thanks,

Steve.

[Mr_steven]

Thanks Vince,

What I’ve found today, while experimenting with rendering, is that the shot of the Chinese guy near the start, as he looks over his shoulder, I’ve slowed it down considerably.

When interlaced the motion of his turning looks smooth… in progressive mode it doesn’t look so good… but when I rendered it in progressive mode using the setting in Cineform and not Premiere, the motion was as good as it looked when interlaced.

Thanks again,

Steven.

[Mr_steven]

Thanks Vince,

I’m not shooting progressive because I’m working with an FX1, I wish I could.

I really do need to get my hands on a Hi Def monitor too, to compare.

When looking through the manual for Cineform, I found that under the Cineform settings you can actually use that to render to progressive, and doing it this way has produced a better result on a slow motion shot that I’ve been experimenting with. I’m not getting as much motion artifacting on it.

If your curious to see the results of my little experiment, it’s a three minute trailer which can been seen here: https://www.youtube.com/profile?user=stevenpw

[Mr_steven]

I figured out the last bit. The image shows the lines in Nero, but not in Windows Media Player.

[Mr_steven]

Thanks guys, I work with a lot of keyed footage, about 90% of the time.

Anyway, I bought the new PC today, I’ll set it up tomorrow, but not being as technical as I perhaps should be, I have to ask stupid questions.

I figure if jo public are taking pics with 6 mega pixel cameras these days and displaying them on standard monitors I should be ok with HDV, even though I can’t appreciate it at full quality.

Cheers,

Steve.

[Mr_steven]

Sorry for the late response, been really buisy.

That worked great, thanks for the tip.

Steve.

[Mr_steven]

I think I’ve figured it out, thanks for that anyway.

I’m using Premiere Pro 2 trial version and my Aspect HD trial expired. I just found out that the trial version of Premiere Pro 2 does not support HDV editing, thats why the files are stretched, it must be, and this is causing the interlacing to look bad.

I have Sony Vegas platinum, so what I’ve done is rendered all the compositing work in After Effects, (which again due to my trial version of Aspect HD expiring is not rendering at 16:9), and put the files into Vegas, which allows me to render the files in HDV using the Cinfeform codec.

I put the files back into Premiere Pro 2 and set the render for widescreen 16×9 PAL etc.. and it looks fine.

Now I need to figure out how to put the finished piece back on to mini HDV tape. I figure if I render it through Premiere Pro as an uncompressed HDV AVI and import that into Vegas then I should be ok, shouldn’t I ?

Thanks for your help.

Steven.

[Mr_steven]

I think I may have figured it out but it’s causing ,e more problems.

I played around with the image in After Effects, stretching the window etc.. and the thick lines became apparant. Then I played the raw file in Windows Media player and noticed it’s stretched vertically, and the interlacing looks as it should.

Now why won’t it render out in Premiere Pro with the correct aspect ratio ?

I started this project using the Aspect HD trial plug in (I would really buy this but I can’t afford to right now), and using the Aspect HD settings my renders where correct. I’m trying AVI 1440×1080 etc… but I still get a stretched image.

How do you export HDV with the correct rectangular aspect ratio ?

Cheers.

I’ve been up for about 26 hours working on this thing.