Steve Brame
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Well, since it’s a production Blu-ray, I’d suspect that there may be a rights issue. Not sure if that carries over from a Blu-ray rip or not.
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Can you create a blank project and successfully import the AVI?
No
Look like a bad AVICan you import any other AVI into project#1? There should be an auto-saved version from before the corruption.
No
“No” you can’t import any other AVI into project#1, or “No” there isn’t an auto-saved version of project#1?Did you create the AVI, or is it from another source?.
The AVI was created from a Blu-ray disc using a ripper called AVS4you.
I suspect you have a bad rip.
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A bit of info is needed…
Can you create a blank project and successfully import the AVI?
Can you import any other AVI into project#1? There should be an auto-saved version from before the corruption.
Did you create the AVI, or is it from another source?.
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Yep…that’s probably the most efficient method. We’ve had cases where our client specified HD for a 30 or 60 sec commercial spot, only to find out that the outlets that they needed it sent to didn’t do commercial spots in HD, and letterbox wasn’t an option either, so we had to re-edit to 4:3.
That would be the ‘inefficient’ method.
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[William Franklin] “I am assuming one cant get true HD on a standard DVD and I am ok with that. But I am just wondering if I am losing quality by leaving out an important step.”
Correct assumption. Not only can you not get “true HD on a standard DVD”, you can’t get ANY HD on a standard DVD…at all.
Since your HD footage is being downsized to SD, so you will indeed lose quality.
Steve Brame
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Thanks Michael…I was truly at a loss for words.
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Wow…
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I’m simply talking resolution…not color space. While HD cameras today may well have better color space abilities that the SD cameras of yore…this is not because of the HD spec, which addresses ONLY resolution, for there are certainly HD camera that shoot 4:2:0.
Now, if we were to change the conversation to a comparison of HD cameras that shoot in a 4:2:2 color space compared to those that shoot 4:2:0, we’d be on subject.
Now, to be honest, since we produce only corporate, I’ve never had an audience that would even notice, much less care about, color space.
Steve Brame
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The acronyms SD and HD refer only to resolution. A DVD is only 720 x 480, no matter what the source material. Conversely, if you shoot SD and grade it well, it can look better than poorly shot/graded HD footage on a final media such as DVD. The resolution doesn’t matter since to get to DVD it all will be reduced in resolution to 720 x 480.
My point is, quite a few people expect higher resolution DVD’s from HD source material – an impossibility. My example points this out, and it is merely one of several we’ve encountered. The director in question had no idea that DVD’s could not be HD.
Steve Brame
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We have seen time and time when a client presents with HD footage, and the final product is to be on a DVD – they expect the final to be either HD, or at least better than what they are used to DVD being. Recently had a director that was very unhappy with his HD footage edited and output to DVD with 8MB data rate. He actually stated that “it looks like Standard Def”, which I had to explain – it was! He actually asked me – “well why did I shoot in HD if the final is going to be SD?” Well, the answer was obvious, but I wasn’t going to say it.