[Rich Rubasch]

[Rich Rubasch]

[Rich Rubasch]

[Rich Rubasch]

Repair permissions via Disk Utility before installing and after restarting?

Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media

[Rich Rubasch]

I used disk utility to make backups of all my discs and simply made disk images and put them on a firewire drive. I never actually burned them to discs but just have them as backups in case. That’s what they are.

Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media

[Rich Rubasch]

Ok, if you want to work in DVCPro HD, you will need a deck (or if the camera has it) that outputs HD SDI, or get a convertor box that converts HDV to HD SDI, then bring that into a Kona LH/LE, blackmagic etc. The card will allow the conversion to DVCPro HD. and that would be cool, but…

As you stated, you won’t need an HD master, and the clip is for the web. Again, if the camera has SDI out, why not go into a SD card and encode 10 bit Standard def. This will retain the wide color bandwidth of the HDV material and will look great. It also gives you plenty of latitude in color grading.

I think I would color correct before deinterlacing, because I would probably want to color correct each shot, some of them will be keyed etc. But more comments welcome.

BTW, I am in a small midwest market and am building a 1-3 minute web video to launch the site and provide a quick intro etc and am wondering what your “generous budget” is in your area…We are looking at about $2000 a minute of animation, or about $4000+ for a 1-3 minute animation built from stills, type and some other stock shots. Curious what your total budget is (approx) for a web video.

Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media

[Rich Rubasch]

I believe it is saying that you should put markers 3 seconds apart, not necessarily 3 seconds from the end….so if you have one 4 seconds from the end, you should put the next one 1 second from the end.

In Encore try zooming way into your sequence and see if there isn’t an extra marker there. Otherwise, not sure.

Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media

[Rich Rubasch]

Hey lightnng….the new 6.5.1 update (versiontracker.com) fixes all those problems. It is now a stable app and quite useful next to the klunkyness of compressor etc. I still like its interface.

Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media

[Rich Rubasch]

Ok, encoded a PJPEG at 320 x 240 at 75% quality….44k stereo audio at 15fps. the 30 second clip was about 20 megs. I opened that in QT Pro and exported to H264 at the same size at 10fps with the quality slider between low and medium…I did ALaw 2:1 audio at 32K best Mono. Clip looked very good and the 30 seconds came in at 1.8 megs. Perfectly acceptable for client viewing.

So, any realtime encoding takes a serious quality hit, probably because encoders work best when they can analyze the clip first, then encode….encoding on the fly it can’t do that.

again, if I were Apple, I would take some of the machine control functions of FCP and combine it with a multipass realtime encoder.

But when I think of it, most of the time we are encoding right off the timeline, not from tape based sources. Not always, but most of the time.

So encoding realtime works, b ut not very well, for now, and it is always best to have a clip.

However, on the PC I have gotten excellent results with Windows Media Encoder when digitizing right off tape sources…it can control a DV device and can even to multi pass by caching to the hard drive on the first pass, then encoding from that clip on the second pass….kind of best of both worlds, but it’s not real intuitive to set up.

I might load Win XP on my Macbook and load Windows media encoder and give it a go.

Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media

[Rich Rubasch]

Fow what it’s worth, I got the best overall results (in black and white) when I digitized using the built in iSight camera in the macbook Pro. The file size was around 6 megs for 30 seconds. It was pretty low framerate and the frames smeared quite a bit with motion.

I kicked up the bitrate on both MP4 and H264 and with about 10 megs per 30 seconds the video was still chunky (240 x 180) although the audio was pretty good. A final option might be to upload at the right size for the final web output, along with frame rate, and then encode that clip which might speed up encoding times.

More tests.

Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media