Paul Campbell
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Ok, I was hoping we could just skip the usual admonition here…
Assuming that I’m simply too poor to afford all that for the time being, and recognizing that I at least found an oddity in the Canvas after outputting merely one DVD, can someone explain how to possibly get around this ripped video problem? I’ll never mention my lack of an external monitor again, I swear. Like I said, I can see the problem in my Canvas. Now I just need to get rid of it. Thanks,
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Crap, I totally got that backwards. Thanks for the correction.
If I was outputting to DVD what would my choice be?
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I don’t believe I was, no. Should I?
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You might also consider disconnecting the Channel 2 audio before you import the clip to the timeline. It’ll save you from having to delete anything, since nothing will be imported to Channel 2.
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The mistake I was making was trying to get Compressor to do ALL the work (not only the frame rate change, but also the resizing). So, my workflow goes like this:
-Import the HD clip into a 720×480 timeline, with NTSC CCIR 601 pixel aspect ratio, no field dominance at 23.98 frames.
-Rescale the clip to 50 so that it fills the entire frame (some stuff will be clipped to the left and right, but the important stuff is within action safe)
-Render
-Set in/out points, and export to Compressor
-In Compressor, use the ProRes 422 preset. In video settings, change the frame rate to 29.97. That’s the only thing to change in Compressor.
-Run the job, and there you go. No blur, no weird interlace issues, no square pixel-to-NTSC pixel squishing.This still may not be the proper way to do this conversion, but I’m happy with the results. I’d still be curious to learn other ways to do this, however.
Cheers,
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Hi, Rafa. This was happening in FCP, while trying to convert an HD/1080p clip w/ square pixels to an SD clip with NTSC pixels. I was using Compressor to do the conversion, and the only way I could get it to not be blurry was to convert it to NTSC. It was clean, but squished.
The good news is that I finally found a good workflow for converting the HD to SD so that it still looks sweet. (I won’t bore you with the details unless you’re interested 🙂 Thanks for getting back to me on this, and for all of your other replies while I was trying to figure this out. I guess I’ll be back soon enough to hound you about something else!!!
Cheers,
Paul
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Hi, Brian. I did see my freakishly lucky conversion job in the history pane, but wasn’t aware that you could drag it to the batch window to recreate it. I was seeing what the properties of the converted clip were, but that wasn’t helping. This is exciting news, indeed. I can’t wait to get home and try it (and hope like hell it’s still in my history panel…I’ve done so many since then trying to recreate that magic)
Anyone who feels the need to say to me “Next time, RTFM!”…yeah, go ahead. (In my defense, that’s a long manual)
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Shane, would Cinema Tools be a good way to convert 23.98 progressive to 29.97 NTSC? Just curious…
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Actually, according to the FCP gurus, it’s not. Due to the fact that I’m dealing with two different frame rates, everyone’s been telling me to NOT use FCP to downconvert my HD stuff.
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Hi, Rafa. I was browsing the XDCAM forum and found this thread. (I’m the guy you were helping a few days ago trying to downconvert XDCAM footage at 24fps to SD @ 30fps) Needless to say, I’m still experimenting with getting the best downconversion possible. I haven’t had a chance yet to purchase the Natress application you mentioned.
Forgive my ignorance here, but I don’t understand why you’d take XDCAM footage from the SxS card and convert it to put BACK on the SxS card. Maybe I just misread your first post. The reason I ask is because I’m still looking for that perfect way to convert my XDCAM footage to a SD timeline to mix with some SD graphics.
I have access to an AJA Kona I/O. Would your procedure for downconverting work with this?