[Neil Ryan]

Gotham,
What does the logo look like and what size is it on the screen?

If there are fine lines in the logo, they will flicker.
You can soften them by using a vertical blur, but this issue is covered a lot if you do a search …

[Neil Ryan]

Depends on which technique you used, but I think your ears will answer your question.
Basically, ‘we’ can offer a technique that gets you on the right path, and then you can go as far with it as you deem appropriate.

Enjoy.

Neil.

[Neil Ryan]

You can try this one, too Dan:

https://www.larryjordan.biz/articles/lj_phone.html

Neil.

[Neil Ryan]

You didn’t mention the reason you were being asked for files, so, just in case, are you sure you know what they want?
Do they want the six stems that make up the 5.1 channels or are they after a Stereo mixdown?
Other than that, your original assumption is correct.

[Neil Ryan]

[Shane Ross] “Aren’t MP3s audio only?”

Egg Zacharay!

Ask the Experts:
https://www.chiariglione.org/mpeg/technologies/mp01-aud/index.htm

“… MPEG-1 Layer 3 (or MP3) is a 1- or 2-channel perceptual audio coder that provides excellent compression of music signals. Compared to Layer 1 and Layer 2 it provides a higher compression efficiency. It can typically compress high quality audio CD data by a factor of 12 while maintaining a high audio quality. In general MP3 is appropriate for applications involving storage or transmission of mono or stereo music or other audio signals. Since it is implemented on virtually all digital audio devices playback is always ensured

Thanks to its low complexity decoding combined with high robustness against cascaded encoding/decoding and transmission errors, MPEG-1 Layer II is used in digital audio and video broadcast applications (DVB and DAB). It is also used in Video CD, as well as in a variety of studio applications.

Layer 3, or as it is mostly called nowadays

[Neil Ryan]

[Matte] “… (instead of the hideous quality VHS copies I used to send)”

“Tell us more about VHS, Grandpa”
“Well kids …”

[Neil Ryan]

Take a look at ‘MPEG Streamclip.’
It is available for Mac & PC at:
https://www.squared5.com/
and as it’s free, you will be guaranteed to get your money’s worth …

Neil.

[Neil Ryan]

“On the video clips I capture there is a small 1 or 2 pixel line drop,
halfway along the top edge of the image.

Okay … this is going so far back into my memory banks that my knees are shaking,
but I believe that the first and last lines of a video images actual start & finish respectively, half way across the screen.
That’s what you are seeing there …

I suspect that it has to do with the image being 16:9 anamorphic, capturing off PAL a Digibeta deck, a type of over-scan perhaps?

… follows on from what I said.

I have seen similar thing with DV CAM 16:9 anamorphic but the difference is that there is a thin white dotted line along the top left edge of the frame.”

… also follows on from what I said, however you are almost certainly describing a line of data (vertical interval timecode – VITC) which exists in the video signal before(read ‘above’) the visible area of the video signal.
Occasionally, that part of the signal which is not part of the visible signal, drops down into the visible area and so, logically, we see it.
That’s what you are seeing. Probably only 1 lines worth.

Happens a lot with anamorphic material in FCP.

Neil.

[Neil Ryan]

… and make sure you render, and are not simply watching a preview quality version of the moving graphic …

[Neil Ryan]

are you running out of disk space?

Neil.