[Ryan Say]

yeah i tried in mpegSC with similar result.

I’m going to speak to nikon.

thanks

[Ryan Say]

thanks for the confirmation that i wasn’t going mad.

you don’t know of anyway to check a mov file to see how it has been encoded do you?

[Ryan Say]

Converting to prores 422 (lt)
Looking at it in the compressor viewer on the mac screen.

Interestingly I just tried it with some canon 5d footage and there is no problem in the viewer or the conversion. It looks the same.
So it would seem that the problem is actually with the nikon h.264 mov footage or the way compressor deals with it.

[Ryan Say]

I downloaded the compressor repair and repaired permissions.
Seems to be working now, but only if the watermark is a PSD file and is in the same folder as the source. I can live with this.

Thank you for your help.

[Ryan Say]

Hi John,

Thanks for your reply.

I tried putting the watermark in the same place and it still came up with the same message.
It must be some kind of bug. I may try a reinstall.

[Ryan Say]

Hi Rich

Thanks for your reply. It was really helpful.

I tried it and the text is nigh on perfect and the actual footage looks better now, for the most part.

When I play the DVD back on my widescreen TV there occasionally scan lines (i think that’s what you call them) when you have a dip to colour transition. But it doesn’t happen at each one, which is weird, but I can live with it for now.

Although,I played it back on my crappy TV in the kitchen and it looks amazing all the way through.

I’m still pretty new to compressing, HDV to SD and outputting and I find it a challenge. I feel it’s a bit like building Frankenstein’s monster at times.

I think i really need to get myself a decent monitoring set-up that will limit these problems in the future. As far as I understand, just plugging your HD TV into your iMac won’t cut it though.

Any thoughts/advice on monitoring?

Ryan

PS thanks again for your help