[Roberto Etcheverry]

Mpeg streamclip will take care of your DVDs (I use it all the time for that). Just use open disc, point it to your DVD, save as QuickTime and select from the drop down list dv/dvcpro NTSC and you should be golden. The VHS tapes are trickier, since you need an actual VHS and a way to capture analogue video in the computer if you want to do it yourself, hard to suggest a way to do it without knowing what kind of equipment you have access to. As an alternative you can look for places that will transfer VHS to DVD and then import the DVDs

[Roberto Etcheverry]

Few things I forgot to address in my previous post (can you edit your posts here?)

I have another issue (I’ll probably post another thread about it) that may be rolling shutter artifact, sometimes a frame gets darker than the other ones, but the weird thing was that the camera was all manual.

On the resolution, using the DVI in the plasma only accepts 848×480 and 1024×768, but that last one doesn’t have the correct aspect ratio (16:9) so it gets distorted. It’s an oldish plasma screen, don’t have access to a true 1080p (they’re not common here in Venezuela yet). Mainly we’re doing the shooting in 1080p since the delivery medium will be TV (downsampled to regular ntsc) and higher quality to use on movie theater screens.

I’ll post later to see if I get any results by playing around with the camera a bit.

[Roberto Etcheverry]

Thanks for all the answers.

Indeed the footage was shot at a rather high shutter speed (1000 or so). We did an earlier test with automatic settings and we got a distracting blur with the movement so we tried a faster speed this time around.

I’ll tell my boss to bring the camera to do some more experiments.

Also, what can I do in post to help alleviate this problem on the images we already have?. I’m also using twixtor to slow down the video a bit. I’ll ask if I’m allowed to post a little bit of a sample.

[Roberto Etcheverry]

It usually creates them automatically when you’re saving it to a FAT 32 formatted partition and the filesize exceeds 2 gigabytes.

[Roberto Etcheverry]

This is a little late, but just to let you all know that I found a way around it, so that anyone with the same problem can try it.

Basically I had a lot of 1080i footage mixed in, some of it digitized as very long shots (it was a 15 minute video to show the work done by the local governor in his 5 years in office), so it wasn’t very practical to convert all to ntsc and then edit it again in the time I had left.

However, I found out a simmilar result can be achieved by creating a new sequence, placing the video on that sequence with the shift fields filter set to +1, and no speed change (the flickering showed up when the footage was slown down, I just copy-paste, remove speed and then moved the in and out points a little bit), render it, then go back to the original sequence and replace the 1080i footage with the sequence, and apply the speed change to the sequence. After that, no more flickering.