[Simon Hepworth]

Okay, I followed your instructions and I think you’ve cracked it…..however I still think I’ve got something wrong in my workflow somewhere!

The QT Ref out of Avid shows the Lower Third to be perfect but clearly there’s an interlacing problem with the footage

qtref-exp.png

But, I have a feeling that’s normal as it’s DV footage to start with and with a QT ref file you can’t specify fields….So into Squeeze I go, apply the HQ MP4 setting and move the preview slider off to the right so I can see what the export’s going to look like

squeezebeforeconvert.png

Well, I’m happy with that, the lower third looks great, the blending is fine, I’m going to be a happy man, squeeze away and this is the result

squeeze_output.png

That’s an H.264(x264) encode at 2200 kb/s and I think it looks dreadful, clearly there’s some jagginess in the lower third where I wasn’t expecting any…..

Or, am I crazy? Quite possibly!

Any thoughts?

[Simon Hepworth]

I’m going to give that a try right now. As it’s a PAL widescreen project I’m assuming that the project settings are 720*576 PAL D1/DV Widescreen?

Anyway, I’ll try your suggestions first and see what happens….

thanks!

[Simon Hepworth]

Perhaps I’m being hypersensitive!

One more question though….Which option do I select on import

Do Not Resize Smaller Images
Resize image to fit format raster

etc….

Thanks again….