[Rosario Nitopi]

Thanks for the reply Dave! In response to your question, no, I don’t think sd dvds look bad but I geuss that is the point. Even when I export it using a 720×480 ntsc quicktime movie it still looks way fuzzier than it looked in the timeline…is that normal? Is everything I am doing what I should be doing? I am not trying to make SD look HD but I am trying to get the best resolution from what I have and the export seems to be degrading the original image more than it should. Please help, thanks.

(I geuss what I am looking for is what people usually do to export high quality 24p footage from a camera like a dvx into a high quality quicktime movie…is it different from what I explained in the first post?)

[Rosario Nitopi]

Thanks for the tips. I guess I should have mentioned in the first email that I am shooting on a panasonic dvx 100b, so it sounds like i’ll have problems right off the bat with the resolution alone. I looked into dvmatte and conduit…both from the same company and conduit is only 50 dollars more expensive. Is it the same as dvmatte but better (and more customizable)? Or are they two different/complimentary programs? Is conduit somewhat of a competitor to shake? (the way it maps stuff out looks similar) I am very aware of how easily green screen can look horrible and I definitely don’t want that so I am trying to research all this as much as I can before execution…especially since it seems inevitable I will have to purchase another program/plug in to get a desirable result. Thanks again for any and all replies. Cheers!

[Rosario Nitopi]

Thanks for the tip, I will have to invest in your DVD in the near future…In the meantime I tried to export my clip to compressor (this is where I got stopped last time I tried it) and it keeps saying my “source destination does not have read/write access”. My “source destination” is an external hard drive where all my videos and fcp projects are stored and I have checked to make sure it is read/write accessable, which it is. When I change the destination to the desktop, the message goes away, but the source is still denying access. Any suggestions?

Thanks again.