[Sean Herbert]

Thanks for the replies, guys.

I looked at that video – I don’t have that “jello” issue at all. It’s definitely judder.

I tried panning slower and sure, it’s not as bad, but it’s still there – it’s horrible!

I guess what baffles me is why the hell AVCHD is such a standard format, when it has this glaring issue?

My 7D shoots h.264 .mov files, and doesn’t have this judder during panning at equal speed – so it’s not as if smooth panning is impossible to achieve with highly compressed full HD files!

Unreal… I never had this issue with MiniDV.

[Sean Herbert]

OP – I delivery digital copy in the UK all the time. The safest bet is to meet the Adstream delivery spec, as they handle the content delivery to every UK & Irish channel and their spec will be fine for all.
You meet their delivery spec, upload the file to them via FTP, and make a new TV order on their website, and select which channels to deliver the copy to.

Details here.
https://www.adstream.com/our-solutions/solutions-a-z/addelivery-tv

Also – for UK TX, the copy needs to be cleared beforehand by Clearcast (recently renamed to Adway) to make sure it meets legal requirements.
https://www.clearcast.co.uk/

Any specific questions, just ask me.

[Sean Herbert]

Hey Ben – which channel is it? You sure they don’t take 16:9 material?

If their delivery spec is “720 x 576 DV .mov” – that could still have a 16:9 or a 4:3 pixel aspect ratio. You need to get clarification.

And if they only accept 4:3 footage, I’d recommend making it 4:3 letterbox, so you have a black bar at the top & bottom of the frame and then can you still fit all your footage in.

Let me know – I run 3 channels on SKY Digital and am familiar with content delivery specs.

[Sean Herbert]

In the UK, for Adstream (FTP delivered), commercials run as follows:

5″ Bars & Tone
27″ clock + 3″ black
30″ commercial (or whatever duration of spot is)
10″ hold of last frame
5″ black.

No audio for the first 12 or last 12 frames of the actual spot.

So, OP – instead of cutting to black at 29.5″ in, why not just hold the last frame? It could get rejected by QC if you only let it run 29.5″ for a 30″ spot that cuts to black too early. At least if you hold the last frame, it’s related content as opposed to black video!

[Sean Herbert]

Disable Active Desktop in Windows 7 (or Vista).

[Sean Herbert]

Hey man – yep – here are some samples on Vimeo.

https://vimeo.com/16958769
https://vimeo.com/17289498
https://vimeo.com/20646777

I edit the 7D files directly in CS5 – no conversion beforehand. And yes, I also use MB Looks & “RGB curves” in PP for grading.

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[Sean Herbert]

Hi,

I shoot on a 7D, edit in CS5, & upload to Youtube & Vimeo.

I export from CS5 using the Vimeo HD preset, but I customise the export settings to square pixels @ 1024 x 576 (25fps, PAL). If you’re NTSC, adjust to whatever the equivalent is.

I can’t say I’ve ever had any issues with the 7D files on Youtube, even after editing & colour correcting in PPCS5.

Sean.

[Sean Herbert]

HI Kevin – no – Mercury Playback is disabled. Makes no difference.

Here is a link to a file I shot on this camera – I imported it into CS5, made a new sequence to match eth footage (i.e. dragged it onto the “New Item” icon) and re-encoded the AVCHD file to a H.264 “Vimeo HD” preset in CS5.
It’s blurry, juddery, horrible footage during any sort of movement!
https://www.maxtronmedia.com/grove/panasonic.mp4

Yet, on the camera’s own LCD (and on a TV through the camera’s HDMI output), this footage looks immaculate. And yes, I tried capturing footage through the HDMI cable into my Matrox Mini and it’s interlaced all over the place & pretty-much un-usable.

Suggestions?

I just printed an Amazon returns label, so I’m probably going to send the camera back… now I just need to hope the box is still in my green bin! :/

[Sean Herbert]

Hi Kevin,

Apologies – I drag the footage to the New Item button.

OS: Windows 7, 64-bit.
Processor: AMD Phenom II, 2.8ghz
RAM: 4GB.
Graphics: Nvidia Geforce GTX 460.
HDD: OS on 64GB SSD, media on 2x 1TB sata drives.

But regardless of my specs, shouldn’t the rendered files still look fine? They don’t.

Thanks!

[Sean Herbert]

Okay – thanks!