Stephen Mann
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Yes, too picky. SD is SD and it sounds like you are doing the best possible. I always use one-pass with SD because two-pass really doesn’t add anything.
You have to remember that the encoder is considering changes it sees in EVERY PIXEL of the video frames. What appears to be little movement to you can be substantial to the encoder. For example, a wedding video on YouTube looked horrible and the videographer couldn’t figure out why when it looks great on the DVD. He had not considered that the wedding was outdoors in a gentle breeze. The encoder was expending a lot of bandwidth on the leaves on the trees behind the couple, leaving little for the couple themselves.
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Bob, my Sony PVN-14U only has analog video inputs and I don’t use it live on my editing workstation. I use it on my DVD player for final checks. Even though it’s analog video – typically the worst connection available – the picture quality is absolutely amazing.
Simon – this depends entirely on the device driver. I plug a 12-inch 640-pixel monitor into my laptop’s video port to drive a teleprompter and each displays at its own resolution. The laptop is a 1080 display.
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YouTube will recompress everything you send, even if you match their specs. I think they are using the VP6 encoder. You may try using the New Blue uprez plug-in, but SD is SD.
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Have you tried the lower bitrate as suggested? If your target bitrate is too high, the second pass will recompress the sections that need additional compression.
Have you tried without GPU support?
What bitrate was your CBR set to?
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“the opening credits get severely jumbled and pixelated”
Only the credits?? I would like to see a screenshot.
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Yes, despite what the ads say, there is no such thing as lossless compression. You can see the degradation on a scope even when using so-called uncompressed. But to the eye, there is probably not likely to be any visible loss.
But your question raises another question about your workflow. The correct fix would be to add the footage and render again. But if you use the output from the first render on the timeline of the new project, and you use the same render template, loss would be minimal.
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“How would you go about calibrating a monitor so that it is broadcast safe?”
You would start with a monitor that can be calibrated to broadcast specs. Here’s a couple from Sony
Unless your are editing product for broadcast, then just get a good mid-range LCD monitor.
If you want to buy a CRT reference monitor there’s many Sony PVM series monitors on Ebay that will work just fine. You can get an almost new 14-inch monitor for $100 plus shipping. Many TV stations are replacing them with $6,000 HP or Sony LED backlight reference monitors. LED backlight monitors – the high priced ones – have a tri-color LED behind every pixel of the LCD. No color matrix filter. They can be calibrated. Consumer LDC displays can’t because white is whatever color the backlight is (usually a CFL), and black is only almost black. (Put up a black screen and turn off the room lights and You will see what I mean.)
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I have BCC8, so Luma transition is not there or it would have loaded with your veg file.
Preview GPU is in the Preferences. Encoding GPU is in the “Render As” templates.
Steve Mann
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Thank you. Knowing that i can help others keeps me going on this forum.
Steve Mann
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I am partial to Dell monitors.
Calibrating—-
First, it is impossible to calibrate a consumer LCD monitor to broadcast standards (HDTV Rec. 709) because white depends on the color of the LCD backlight. But you can come close. You will need an external calibrating instrument. I use the X-Rite Color Munki but there are others.Steve Mann
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