[Philip James]

Thanks Chris – will work on this.

Best

Phil

[Philip James]

Further to my previous posting, here is a grab from de-interlaced Quicktime export from FCP.

[Philip James]

Thank you for your help Bouke and Chris. I guess I was figuring that this wasn’t a straightforward interlacing issue because I wasn’t getting good results when de-interlacing on export from FCP – the problem did not go away. Now I’m going to play with this after exporting and see how I can improve things.

All the best

[Philip James]

Thank you Bouke

Is this really just a problem of viewing interlaced footage on a computer monitor? It certainly looks fine on the rather small camera monitor. But as soon as I import it onto my Mac I get the artifacts – whether viewing the MTS files directly in VLC or after import into FCP. I have already tried a de-interlaced export as MPEG 4 but it was only partly successful, reducing the problem but not eliminating it. I’m now trying a Quicktime de-interlaced export from FCP.

[Philip James]

I have now seen that these fault appears on the original footage although in not such an extreme way. I guess it’s a camera fault.

[Philip James]

After doing some tests the grain issue is due to the high gain setting – can’t believe I overlooked that! I guess there isn’t much I can do with the shots already done?

Phil

[Philip James]

Thanks guys.

I noticed that the gain setting on the camera was set to ‘high’. I have now set that to low. I’ll do some tests.

As far as the software to allow my laptop to mount the SxS cards I have downloaded and installed that and the card appears up on the menu bar but doesn’t mount on the desktop and can’t be accessed in Clip Browser.

The grain issue is my biggest problem though – I’ll work on that.

Best

Phil

[Philip James]

Just purchased a La Cie writer for use with my Mac which is a little compromised since Apple doesn’t support Blu-ray yet so I can’t view any BDs that I author! I am intrigued about the conversation you are having re. frame rates since I have just finished an HD project at 25p and wondered how Toast would cope with that (I have an uncompressed QT of the film). I was hoping I’d be able to get it to encode at 24p or 23.976 fps which would create BDs for US + European markets, but I’m not sure what Toast will do with the audio – will it slow it down by 4%? I also have a 5.1 surround mix of the soundtrack and was hoping I could include that as an option on the BD but it looks like Toast’s options are rather limited. If anyone has experience that could help inform my decisions that would be great.

Thanks

Phil