[Sascha Engel]

I thought so – just hoped for a miracle.
The Duck would be awesome, but is not in the budget at the moment.
Thanx Shane!

[Sascha Engel]

Not really, AVID can’t export XML files, ate least not the version of AVID they worked on.
I would get it as a MOV Quicktime File – either in DV-Pal compression or uncompressed.

[Sascha Engel]

ut.

[Ian Luckraft] “It’s made for interesting reading though and given me plenty to think about. “

Well, you are so right. For me also thinking a lot about, not to be just stuck of our technical side of the work. As an editor, I am still more interested in the artistic side of a project, than tech talk. But hey, I also like the old Star Wars better than the new ones 😉

Have a great Day!

[Sascha Engel]

Wow, what a long thread of posts. Guys, calm down, as we say in German: “Leave the church in the village!”
We all forget one thing here – being so nerdy and tech geeks: It is what you see in the frame also! Not all about esthetics and looks.
And there’s never on right way to a thing in video and film.
It’s all about how the final result looks like. If the scaling makes sens or not, depends on the footage resolution and quality in the first place – I think, in some cases you get away with 2% scaling, in some not.
Same for black frames around the image – for certain things it will look acceptable – in other cases not.
To Ian: Trust your eye – that is all that counts at the end of the day.
There’s as many opinions and solutions as there’s fish in the see.
And I did encounter cases in my work, where the most so called amateurish solution, was not only the fastest, but the most convincing.

To all the Nerds and Geeks out there (including myself) – let’s count together to 10 and calm down 😉

Sascha

[Sascha Engel]

Would love to help, but can you ellaborate on the term “Cloverfield style” – I am not familiar with that expression.
Thanx.

Sascha

[Sascha Engel]

Hi,

I experienced the same thing with footage of certain camera types – often with the Sony PD-150 / older models.
I think Jerry’s solution is the best way to get rid of it.
I don’t think either you will solve it by changing the settings

Sascha

[Sascha Engel]

Is it right then to go for CBT instead of VBT?
That’s what I did, I had to set the Bitrate to Average of 7 Mps, cause the film is 75min.
Does that still produce a reasonable good quality to screen over a Beamer?

Sascha

[Sascha Engel]

It interpretated it right, but I just read in other Posts, that it’s better to do the downscaling to SD in AE and then put this into Compressor. At the moment, I am rendering the HD Master directly to MPEG2 for DVD in compressor and it seems to be much better.

[Sascha Engel]

25p – full HD 1920 by 1080 – EX1 XDCAM Codec

[Sascha Engel]

Great thanx! I will try!