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Paul Smith
August 5, 2016 at 4:40 pm in reply to: Upscaling DVD footage for projection

Hi David,

Thanks a lot for your response. I’ve been told, however, that Digital Vision’s plug-ins or, alternatively, an Alchemist can do great things in terms of up-resing SD material…..
Paul Smith
June 12, 2015 at 11:44 pm in reply to: DVD SD VOB to DCP

Thanks Kalin! I’ll try it out. Can I ask what you’re DVDs consist of in terms of content?
Paul Smith
June 1, 2015 at 5:11 pm in reply to: DCP projection workflow

As far as ripping these DVDs are concerned….. they are mostly hollywood, PAL, 25fps DVDs (yes, I know this is illegal, but it’s being montaged into fair use material). Is it best to up-res them to 1920×1080 using Streamclip or is there a better option? I’m also now wondering, frankly, if leaving the resolution as-is (1024×768/720×576) and having a post-house do a DCP hardware up-scaling is a better option?

When encoding to ProRes via Streamclip – because these DVDs are all SD and therefore interlaced, should I leave ‘interlaced scaling’ ON?

Sorry for the many questions!
Paul Smith
June 1, 2015 at 1:20 pm in reply to: DCP projection workflow

Hi Michael,

Thanks for your response. To clarify, you would suggest conforming to 24fps from 25 once the final edit is complete? and so the final container will be 1998×1080?

Thank again
Paul Smith
May 31, 2015 at 5:44 pm in reply to: DCP projection workflow

HI Shane,

Because I’m here in the UK, I’m ripping from PAL DVDs so 25fps. But can’t I output the final as 24fps via something like Media Encoder? Or does Streamclip handle fps conversion well?

I’m still at a loss as to what I should encode the VOBs into, exactly…?
Paul Smith
May 31, 2015 at 2:07 pm in reply to: DCP projection workflow

Thanks for your help! If I encode to that aspect, though, won’t it still distort the image? Or are you suggesting that I encode the video to 1920×1080 and then crop the image within final cut?
Paul Smith
May 30, 2015 at 8:25 pm in reply to: DCP projection workflow

I should also note that another concern is that outputting a 1024×576 SD VOB to 1920×1080 gives me a proper 1:1 whereas outputting to something DCP friendly like 2048×1024 stretches the image….
Paul Smith
September 24, 2014 at 5:41 pm in reply to: Adding random positioning values

Thanks Dan!

And what if I wanted the position to hold for 3 or 4 frames…? And then move to a different position…
Paul Smith
March 12, 2012 at 4:00 pm in reply to: Final Cut and still images for projection

Hi Bret,

It’s going to be played back with whatever machine will play it back smoothly – whether it means a laptop or a monster mac. But it’s entirely made up of stills that are being scanned. The reason I’ve been reluctant to go with 300dpi scans is because they have to be blown-up/resized.
Paul Smith
October 11, 2010 at 1:18 pm in reply to: Pal dv output workflow

Unfortunately I have to work pal-dv, which is the only pal codec that’s lower field first. The vobs were converted using mpeg streamclip

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