Tim Mclaughlin
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Well that bites… I thought going “525 23.98” to 720 23.98 would be easier (even though it’s not really 23.98). Dang.
Thanks Jeremy.
If only I had $40k for a Teranex VC300…
Tim McLaughlin
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Right – and the Kona can do all that too.
BUT – How well does the MXO2 handle graphics on Downconverson, ’cause on the Kona 3 it doesn’t look so good…
Tim McLaughlin
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But Shane – YOU are the MXO demo guy!
What’s your take?
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Sorry news for you. But…
Render out the whole interview clip, fix what you need and bring the whole thing back in.
At least then you won’t have the shift…
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Forgot to update my Kona drivers.
Everything is better now.
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I forgot to update the Kona drives to V 5.1.
Everything is just ducky.
Man this stuff looks great…
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Evidently you’ve never seen what that looks like. FCP does not do a wonderful job scaling HD to SD and then adding pulldown.
Interlacing artifacts all over. Looks worse than the ghosting.
Tim McLaughlin
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Letting Compressor or FCP handle this makes it look even worse. The interlacing artifacts are terrible.
I’d take ghosted titles over those 2 options.
Tim McLaughlin
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Thanks for the feedback and questions guys.
Here is a link to hi-rez JPEG files as well as a zipped archive of TIF files that I’ve compiled.
One file is the original HD, one is a 10 bit capture from the SD downconvert, and one is a totally unfair comparison by taking the HD frame and resizing it in PhotoShop.
As a test, I readjusted the levels of the name keys in AE (to a range of 16 to 235), and I was still seeing the same issue.
I just need an answer on how to fix this – or if it’s even fixable. Am I doing something wrong? Does DVCProHD always look like crap on downconversions? Is there something wrong with my card?
Tim McLaughlin
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Downconversion is happening entirely through the Kona 3 card.
I’m performing “edit to tape” from my HD timeline and having the Kona card downconvert via SDI as either letterbox or anamorphic and add the pulldown.