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Peter Hall
November 8, 2011 at 6:26 pm in reply to: Editing NTSC DV (3:2) into a 1080/60 sequence

Hi Bret, I am getting a bit lost as my canvas displays normal aspect DV image but the Desktop Cinema Preview screen shows the DV as stretched. My sequence settings are:

My objective is to end up with a movie that can play on a large screen with the DV footage as pic-in-pic’s in their native sizes so their quality is not degraded by scaling to 1080.

Thank you for your input, much appreciated

Peter Hall
Peter Hall
November 5, 2011 at 3:39 pm in reply to: demuxing HDV files captured with FCP (for blu-ray)

Thanks Chris.

Peter Hall
Peter Hall
November 5, 2011 at 2:10 pm in reply to: demuxing HDV files captured with FCP (for blu-ray)

Chris, (pardon, Emmanuel) Is it better to convert HDV QT movies to mpeg2 via Compressor rather than to let iDVD or DVDSP do the encoding?

Peter Hall
Peter Hall
November 4, 2011 at 3:38 pm in reply to: Font face blocky in FCP 7 DV sequence

OK, great Chris, thanks for your time. I realise I’m seeing it worse on my MBP screen than it will look to most once I follow your steps. Hope I don’t have to waste more of your kind time. Cheers.

Peter Hall
Peter Hall
November 4, 2011 at 2:17 pm in reply to: Font face blocky in FCP 7 DV sequence

Thanks Chris. I agree the text on DV codec looks horrible on FCP. I don’t remember it looking so bad on my previous system, although with that one I used a CRT to monitor.

What do you mean when you suggest use another codec? Maybe to make the titles in a 1080i codec, then make QT movies and import into my DV sequence? Sorry, I have little experience working with DV in FCP, nor do I have a broadcast monitor at my disposal.

Peter Hall
Peter Hall
November 4, 2011 at 8:20 am in reply to: Font face blocky in FCP 7 DV sequence

Looks like I must be on the wrong forum here – I set text motion to even number on the Y position and the font face is still aliasing. I shall try building my titles in Motion, I think I still have a version of LiveType somewhere… looking forward to wasting some time on this one.

Peter Hall
Peter Hall
November 3, 2011 at 6:10 pm in reply to: Font face blocky in FCP 7 DV sequence

Sorry Chris, which is the “Y” position? Is it in the text viewer control pane? I’m using the FCP default text utility. Maybe I should build titles in Motion then import as .mov files?

Peter Hall
Peter Hall
November 3, 2011 at 4:51 pm in reply to: stepping and de-interlacing

Thanks Chris, valuable points, well noted. Looks like I’ll have to make different versions applying de-interlace in the few clips that need it. Mostly it will be for Youtube/Vimeo or QT file distribution. Much obliged for your info.

Peter Hall
Peter Hall
November 3, 2011 at 9:28 am in reply to: stepping and de-interlacing

Thanks Rafael, the sequence is set to lower (even) dominance, but the default de-interlacer only removes the stepping when it is set to upper (odd). I agree it is probably not very good but it is better than Stibs and TMTS de-interlacers I have already installed. I shall look into those products you suggested. Thanks for coming through, once again!

Peter Hall
Peter Hall
November 2, 2011 at 1:05 pm in reply to: viewer and canvas settings in DV timeline

Muy obrigado Rafael!

Peter Hall

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