[Rich Kaelin]

Not sure what you are asking. I got great results, so be more specific and I will try to help. Not sure what you mean by “the other way”? I was going from 60fps to 50fps for UK use of clips shot in USA. You cannot really convert anything in dvd studio, so compressor is it, as far as I know. Give me some details and I will try to answer…I have become quite proficient at conversion.s, if not spelling 🙂

Rich Kaelin
Kaelin Motion Production Services
https://kaelinmotion.com
New York

[Rich Kaelin]

Thank you. I need to replace the one which I now assume was in the C block, and I just did not want to get burned. The “noisy” one cost over $1000 when I bought it, and I am still looking at $500 – $900 to replace it, so any advisce it well considered. I guess reallocating frequencies and forcing people to spend more money is just another form of economic stimulus…at least for some people 🙂

Rich Kaelin
Kaelin Motion Production Services
https://kaelinmotion.com
New York

[Rich Kaelin]

Shane, you are likely correct. I just checked a file and it only says AVC…my mind is stuck on “intra” because of my Panasonic camera. Still, this file looks great, even on a 60″ HDTV. Pretty amazing.

Rich Kaelin
Kaelin Motion Production Services
https://kaelinmotion.com
New York

[Rich Kaelin]

I was aware of and afraid f this…but I have seen movies in this codec. The issue is file size. I wanted to upload the smaller files, and let them ingest it however they see fit. The speed of there server will make it a 2 day upload in XDCAM form. Just hoping to process to something more manageable.

Rich Kaelin
Kaelin Motion Production Services
https://kaelinmotion.com
New York

[Rich Kaelin]

Thank you Petteri. I just confirmed shoot is now next week, but contact does not have full details on format yet. If it is something not already covered, I will check back. Thank you all so much.
Rich

Rich Kaelin
Kaelin Motion Production Services
https://kaelinmotion.com
New York

[Rich Kaelin]

Okay, I sort of figured that about QTP and monitors. I do have a DVD player that should play PAL, but have never tried it. I don’t have any PAL monitors (that I am aware of, I have to check my 14 inch SONY, it is an SD mon with many selections for SDI, etc, so maybe, but I doubt it. Now, my Mac monitors are HD cinema monitors, with DVI and HDMI inputs, so they do actually qualify as fairly high end HD TV’s, but I doubt that matters. And I have Bluray…can I burn XDCAM files to Bluray and will the bluray players detect and output properly, and/or will the bluray play a PAL DVD and output properly? I have never had any issues with anything I send out, but since the digital revolution and tapeless acquisition I have not upgraded to an IO device (I have been considering the AJA and the Matrox solutions) I hesitate to do this because I look at about $300k worth of SD gear that is gathering dust every day, and see that everything is moving away from media to digital. Bluray was practically born DOA, as you can create AVC files that are a fraction of the size, look just as good, and can be played from a thumb drive (and hence downloaded and distributed with no media)
Any additional thoughts, especially on IO?
Thanks.

Rich Kaelin
Kaelin Motion Production Services
https://kaelinmotion.com
New York

[Rich Kaelin]

It is JES Deinterlacer, see: https://www.xs4all.nl/~jeschot/home.html
I used this to convert a SD IMX clip recorded with my nanoFlash a few weeks back. It did all the work with just a few clicks, and looked fine.
There is also a program (stand-alone, as is JES) called “Reframe”, which I did not download. I downloaded the demo of Nattress, but results look identical, at least on this interview footage, to JES. Both look look pretty much the same as Compressor with best settings, so I may use Compressor just so I can set up a batch and walk away. Nattress is many steps, for what I can see is no visible improvement. JES is super simple and looks great, compressor just needs some settings tweaked and it seems to work fine as well. I do not know if JES does high def (just haven’t tried yet), but that is less of an issue as it is an adjustment to frame rate and Compressor really does look fine. Of course, I can only view in Quicktime player, but on dual monitor I loaded an HD XDCAM EX original clip and the converted clip side by side and no one here could pick the original; on interviews, with little motion, the frame rate is not a noticeable change in quality.

Rich Kaelin
Kaelin Motion Production Services
https://kaelinmotion.com
New York

[Rich Kaelin]

Yes, I did realize that true PAL only comes into play when outputting to analog. It is all digital upload to an FTP at my end, so I think I am fine.
Proper field order for PAL is Top (upper)?
Do you think progressive may be better than interlaced.
They will be doing editing of the interviews, so I was going to avoid H.264 anyway, either IMX or XDCAM, if they’ll accept that, if not, I need to get a list of codecs they will accept. These are straight, head shot, seated interviews, so I don’t think motion will be an issue.
All my tests today at 720×576 read in FCP as PAL pixel ratio, so I guess I am good to go. When I drop into sequence and let it choose sequence settings, I get what appears to be a PAL timeline. And I found a converter online that seems to work well, if I decide not to go with Compressor. Truthfully, they look identical. I guess I was correct about HD, same image sizes, square pixels? (1920×1080) Just different frame rate.
Thanks for the feedback,
Rich

Rich Kaelin
Kaelin Motion Production Services
https://kaelinmotion.com
New York

[Rich Kaelin]

I have been experiencing similar problems. At this moment I am doing a render, and I did several experiments for render times. I run dual quad (8 x 3.06GZ) with 12 GB RAM and raid arrays. When I turned multi-processing off, render times went up 4x, so I experimented and settled on 4 processors at 1.5 GB RAM each, which seemed to yield the best time. I have found that different effects utilize processors and RAM in different ways, so I have yet to settle on what settings are best.

I will say that Macs do get bogged down after a while. A gentleman named Rafael gave me some advice on system maintenance a while back when FCP was crashing/bogging. It Helped a lot. It is a good idea to really “clean house” now and then. I think it is time for me to do it again. Here is the link to his post:
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/8/1105933

In my view, it is a good Idea to just clean out and even reload from scratch, OS and all, now and then. The type of work we do generates a lot of files and junk that gets hard to keep track of and get rid of. The average Mac user does not have these issues. Also, even though it is a Mac, we (or at least I) sometimes install stuff that will run in background and slow things down, and then I become unaware that they are there and I do not need them.

I hope others post advice on this, I could use it, I am far from an expert, just speaking from my experiences. Also (and this is from experience as well) a failing hard drive, and sometimes they still work when they are on the way out, will really slow things down.

Rich Kaelin
Kaelin Motion Production Services
https://kaelinmotion.com
New York

[Rich Kaelin]

Working in PRORES has no effect on issue. FCP looks like crap, AE and Motion look great. Remember, this is bringing an image LARGER than the sequence in, so at 100% of image size, it is like doing a close up on that section of image. Beautiful in Motion and AE, even in the DV codec, crap in FCP in any codec. I don’t understand why…must be the mechanics of FCP. I am curious to see what Premiere does, that is my next test.

Rich Kaelin
Kaelin Motion Production Services
https://kaelinmotion.com
New York