[Simon Toro]

Awesome! Thanks a lot, the app looks great, I’ll make sure to donate! 😉

[Simon Toro]

Thanks a lot! I’ll try that workflow as soon as I finish the last changes on the edit.

The movie is 47 minutes long. But the DVD will also include a 3’30” videoclip from the band and a short (15” or so) menu animation. I don’t exactly know how to input that into the bitbudgeting calculation, but I’ll figure it out. -I’ve never used a bitbudget app before. Now that you mentioned it, I looked it up and found a free one at Ken Stone’s final cut pro website. Hope it works!
Thanks,
simon.

[Simon Toro]

You’re absolutely right. The bigger sensor camera thing is not possible for this project unfortunately, but all the other things we’ve taken care of. We shot using a little zoom whenever possible to force a shallower depth of field on the subjects, and we’ve treated the image with levels, saturation, contrast and grain filters so as to achieve a more “cinematic” look. Still, without the deinterlacing, it looked more like a color-corrected soap opera than a film. I’m not saying we’re fooling anyone as it is, but at least it looks more like what the director wanted.

About the deinterlacing filter being responsible for the lines, here’s a new discovery we’ve made: The other video that is included in the DVD, a music video from the same band, also shows the same lines during fade-ins and other hi-contrast moments. This video does not have (to my knowledge) any deinterlacing filter or weird process. It has been broadcasted on tv and seen in many places with no lines at all, so there must be something wrong with the DVD encoding! what do you think it could be?
Here’s a screengrab of the music video showing the lines during a fade-in:

As I said, the ‘lines’ are not the typical combing deinterlacing artifact, but to me they look like they’re interlace-related. What do you think?

thanks,
simon.

[Simon Toro]

Thank you very much for the offer danny!
unfortunately, the DVD is due this next tuesday and I still have a couple of changes to do to the editing, so there’s no time! :((

Still, I’m very interested on what you said about the correct way of recording the DVD. Should we put the movie into a progressive sequence and encoding on Encore, or an interlaced one?

Also, on this downscaling… would it be better to export the final edit to a MPEG-2 file and then putting that into encore?
If so, what size and bitrate would you recommend?

Once again, thank you very much!

[Simon Toro]

Yeah, I’m not deinterlacing to try and turn the video into a progressive video; I ony applied the deinterlacing filter to get rid of a little of that TV feel. So ultimately I don’t mind the video still being interlaced. What bugs me is if wether the filter is causing the lines?
What do you think?