[Stephan Hill]

Thanks for the advice Rafael!

! will change the Bit Rate to 10 Mbps as you recommended.

I have turned on the Frame Control to On and then set everything to Best.

The key frame is set to 24. do you think that is all right?

[Stephan Hill]

I had originally had the Dat Rate set to Automatic but I started to get stuttering on the WD TV player. the banding was there on the Automatic setting as well.

hmmmm?

[Stephan Hill]

thanks Alan,

this helps out a lot. but I still do not understand why if HD has a better color range do we color correct with NTSC tools like the vector scope or Waveform monitor that are NTSC.

I am an old Photoshop guy and I can’t help but think it is like color correcting my ProPhoto RGB 32 bit color photograph with Proof Colors on to Generic RGB.

[Stephan Hill]

Hello Rafael,

Thanks for the advice. It makes a lot of sense. After I posted my question, I started to wonder if bring the footage into Compressor would be an option. That way I wouldn’t have to change my Sequence settings. How would I adjust Compressor for the Fields and the FPS?

Stephan

[Stephan Hill]

Thanks for the post! I am going to try your suggestion. Here is the strange thing however. Any digital video file that I have on the computer looks choppy or pixilated. I capture either direct from the camera (Panasonic DVX100) or a deck (JVC –SR-VS20) with Final Cut Pro 6.0. I then open up the video file directly as a stand-alone QT file and it looks pixilated. It looks great in FCP but at 50% in the Canvas window.

I am racking my brains to figure out what is different in my workflow. I have been working with video and FC for years. I updated to FCP 6 and QT 7 a month ago. Are their any known issues?

It is clear that it is not the camera. The image looks great their but once it is captured it looks bad.

I have also wanted to show my work straight from computer to a projector through VGA cable. I did a test with a video clip I captured a year ago and projected it through via VGA and it looks great.

[Stephan Hill]

Thank you again Todd for your patience.

Interesting, question about viewing. I have tried two experiments.

1) Was to create a DVD as a disk image and play it off of my laptop to the projector via a VGA cable. The result was terrible. I assume first because of compression in the DVD codec but mainly due to the pixel aspect ratio of square vs. rectangle. When I view a DV-NTSC QuickTime by itself in QT Player it always looks bad for this reason. That correct isn’t it?
2) I burned a real DVD via DVDSP and compressed via Compressor. I viewed through a progressive scan DVD player with component cables to an Epson Powerlite 62c projector.

So I am going to try to capture in DV50 and edit a Sequence with an Apple ProRes 422 Compressor setting. How does that sound?

[Stephan Hill]

Thank you for the reply. Could I ask a side question?

Is it correct that there is no advantage to import DV-NTSC footage into FCP other then a standard Apple Fire wire connection? I have always worked with DV video and believed from this forum that once the compressed video in the DV format is placed on the tape you can’t really “Res-up” through a better important. Is that correct?

The funny thing is that when I play the video directly from my Panasonic DVX100 to a video projector (using a RCA connection which I realize is very low) the image is GREAT! It looks like HD I have seen. But once I capture, edit and place to DVD it becomes blurry, pixilated. How do you retain that quality from that camera?

[Stephan Hill]

thanks for the advice!

the Matrox MXO with an Apple Cinema display seems like a great solution. I have never tried to reproduce color on a LCD monitor before. does the cinema display work well?

[Stephan Hill]

this is a funny way to end this thread but I am working with FCP 5.0 and I do not find a capture preset for 20p. Is this normal? if i am to create a preset in the Capture Preset Editor what would the Pull Down be?

[Stephan Hill]

first off, thanks for the wonderful responses in this thread!

I tried this suggestion, record in 30p, edit in 60i with field order to none. all of my footage in the sequence now has to been rendered? is this correct? should I create a special FCP template for capturing?

I also simply shot in 30p and captured and edited the video in using FCP the DV-NTSC template. no rendering needed but I see a little bit of “fluttering” in the FCP viewer window but not in my video monitor. is that what was being discussed earlier?

Stephan