[Rich Rubasch]

Not being so familiar with PAL frame sizes, in NTSC world, we used to have 720 x 486 and we used to have 640 x 480. 320 x 240 would be a quarter screen, and 640 x 480 would be full screen. 640 x 480 was also the standard computer screen size way back when. 720 x 480 is the NTSC frame size and the comparable square pixel size would be 720 x 534. Still, if I scale a 720 x 480 NTSC DV clip in the WMV converter to 640 x 480, I get the best scaling to the end users computer resolution, such as 1024 x 768.

From your post I assume you want these movies to play full screen with no controller. What is a standard PPT frame size in PAL land? 800 x 600? 1024 x 768?

Have you tried ever encoding your PAL DV footage to 640 x 480 and is that a standard square pixel computer screen frame size in PAL as it it here?

Curious…

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[Rich Rubasch]

Love the Pipe Studio from Aurora Video Systems…excellent codecs (see Marco Solario’s site) and an excellent breakout box with all inputs and outputs “live” simultaneously. No delay from computer monitor to NTSC monitor. Works in G4’s thru G5’s. Has full support for both 480 and 486 DV, DVCPro50, uncompressed 8 and 10 bit and the rest.

It does’t get the hype that the Kona products or Aja products get, but IMO it is simply a better product.

The Pipe card comes in three different configs, depending on how many decks you might have etc.

Have a look at http://www.auroravideosys.com.

If by chance you have a Betacam (component with analog XLR audio) and a DVCAM or DVCPro deck (SDI video and digital audio) the Pipe card will solve your entire SD workflow issues.

Rich Rubasch
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[Rich Rubasch]

You are right on with the correct format for PPT…it’s Windows Media. What is your source video in FCP? What are your settings in Flip for mac? Are you using Variable bit rate or Constant?

I prefer 640 x 480 progressive for full screen WMV, 480 x 360 for medium size WMV and 320 x 240 for small WMV. I usually come from 720 x 480 DV or DVCPro50 as my source. I choose Lower field as the input field order and progressive for the output and always select 29.97 as frame rate. I use 80kbps on the audio side, and not the default 64 kbps.

What is your workflow?

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[Rich Rubasch]

Your question is pretty specific…did you try the Compression forum?

Rich

[Rich Rubasch]

It’s only going to get better for the Epson because Maxell is going to release true glossy coated media that will look as good as the best photo printing you have seen on an inkjet.

Aren’t the Primera printers dye sub? Don’t they require the dye sub type media surface? When i order there are two printable surfaces…one is just called “white printable” which is for dye sub and then there is “white inkjet printable” which is inkjet.

Are you ordering media that is dye sub if that is what your printer is? Or is the Primera an inkjet printer? If so, go with the Epson for the short runs. Don’t be surprised if Epson releases a new automated DVD printer soon…

Rich Rubasch
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[Rich Rubasch]

I just open the sequence I want and select all and Cut…then I go to the long sequence and paste it at the end.

Keeps all the cuts.

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[Rich Rubasch]

One thing is that on the Mac Apple natively supports the Panasonic DVCPro and DVCProHD codecs. This might give them a leg up handling colorspace issues. I don’t have an answer to your problem, except to say that since the US is a 7.5 IRE black and most DV and HD signals are 0 IRE Black, we will continue to have color space issues affecting blacks, and depending on the OS version, platform, QT version, video card or other factors, we will struggle trying to make our ins and outs match.

In this digital age, which is sold to consumers as the promised land, there are as many potholes as NTSC. Actually, in some ways the simplicity of analog will be missed.

I sort of miss it already…

Rich Rubasch
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[Rich Rubasch]

Go into the bin window and scroll over to see what clock rate the clip was digitized at. I haven’t seen this for some time, but I have seen it where instead of 48k it showed up as 47.085 or something in the bin window…if that is the case, you will have to redigitize the clip and them make sure it has a solid 48k rate.

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[Rich Rubasch]

I waited five years before the right guy came along. And I had to do a lot of coercing etc. He had a 9 yea gig at a comfy post facility…but he wanted more. I kept getting more and more work, and since my reputation is so good right now he heard only good things…besides we are a good fit.

So I pushed and he finally decided to make the plunge. We are sort of plunging together. Should be interesting, but since he is quite talented it will be worth the wait.

We’ll see.

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[Rich Rubasch]

I’m about to make the move and hire someone, so things should be getting interesting right quick. But I’ve always wanted to do this so I have momentum at least in spirit!

I’ll let you know…

Anyone else?

Rich Rubasch
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