[Russell Lasson]

[jrhfilms] “I would also like to know if I can burn a DVD with these same settings, or would I need to do it differently.”

To play it out firewire in 5.1.4, yes, you would need to convert the file to DV.

For the DVD, you need a MPEG2 file, so you would either convert the DV file to MPEG2, convert the original footage to MPEG2, or downconvert the footage to a better format than DV (ie DV50, Uncompressed 8-bit) and export it to MPEG2 from that file.

-Russ

[Russell Lasson]

It will convert the DV clip to DVCPROHD information if it is in a DVCPROHD timeline, then use that information to create the MPEG2.

-Russ

[Russell Lasson]

Sweet! I’ll have to give that a try.

Thanks,

-Russ

[Russell Lasson]

Does the footage have duplicate frames? Meaning was it shot at 24P instead of 24PN? Or is the footage true 59.94?

If it’s duplicate frames you could try the DVCPROHD frame rate converter or Nattress Standards converter.

If it’s true 59.94 then you can still use Nattress Standards converter or maybe Compressor.

-Russ

[Russell Lasson]

We have four edit systems connected by a SAN and a couple of portable edit systems (iMacs and MacBook Pros). The main systems have either a Kona LH or a Blackmagic HD card for digitizing. We have a HD projector and a couple of Sony HD CRT monitors.

All of the main machines are in one room and we use a patch bay to be able to use any machine in any room. That’s where I have the component distribution amps (to send to a broadcast monitor and the projector at the same time.)

We have DVI extention cables the go to each of the three (soon to be 4 and a half) edit rooms.

I’ve really put it all together myself (including building many of the audio and video cables).

-Russ

[Russell Lasson]

Export using the animation codec with “Millions of Colors+” turned on.

Export QuickTime movie – select Custom Settings. Change the compressor to Animation. Select Advanced underneath it and change Millions of Colors to Millions of Colors+.

-Russ

[Russell Lasson]

Though I’ve tried, I haven’t figured out how to do that. My work around is just to create a new clip with Log and Capture with the same in and out points.

-Russ

[Russell Lasson]

J for rewind and L for fast forward. You’ll need to hit the button a couple of times to get it to go faster.

-Russ

[Russell Lasson]

[jeffchamlee] “After I render the timeline, the edges of the animation look jagged.”

That could because you’re rendering to DV (not the greatest for graphics). Just as a test, change the compressor of your timeline to DV50 (DVCPRO50) which is better for graphics, render just the animation, and see how it looks.

Also, check the Motion Filtering Quality in the Sequence Settings – Video Processing tab. Make sure it’s set to high quality.

You could also use compressor to downconvert the footage to DV too.

-Russ

[Russell Lasson]

That’s great to hear! Thanks!

I’m still a little confused about what is being said about the Teranex not supporting 24P. The confusion is that I wouldn’t be sending 24P video to it. I would connect it to the HDSDI output of the Panasonic 1200 deck. Then connect the output of the Teranex to the computer.

In other works, I wouldn’t be sending 24P video to it. It’d be sending 59.94 video to it (with a 2:3 pattern of duplicate frames, but it’s still 59.94). Then wouldn’t it upconvert the video at 59.94, leaving the duplicate frames intact? Then would a Kona card be able to remove the duplicate frames? (if not, I guess I’d be capturing at 1080/60P to uncompressed!!!! That’s scary.) But the Teranex wouldn’t have anything to do with 24P?

-Russ