[Timothy Anderson]

Hi David!

Thanks for the response and information – it was really helpful because as I said I really don’t know much about the grading/correction process once everything leaves me.

Yeah everything was natively shot/captured at 24p/1080, so 23.98 it is (working from Apple).

In response to your inquiry concerning titles, credits, etc…There is a scene with subtitles that I know I must remove when exporting the entire sequence to .tiff, but currently there is a title sequence and temp. end credits. I realize the end credits will be replaced/completed by the post house, but I was going to export the opening title sequence along with the rest of the film in the timeline because the opening sequence is all titles over black that were created in Illustrator and brought into motion where the matching frame rate and codec were assigned. This .mov was then brought into the sequence as a ‘clip’. I figure the post house will either replace the sequence with something close to identical depending on what the director says, or they can keep the current HD titles (or just use for reference). Either way, it is ok because ALL of the opening title sequence takes place over black and does not infringe on any shots/frames of action, right? Think Woody Allen style credits…

Thanks for your time and expertise,
Tim

[Timothy Anderson]

NEVERMIND everybody – spoke with post-supervisor today and now I understand.

Thanks

[Timothy Anderson]

Thanks Jeremy –

That’s good to know – and thanks for the info on Cinema Craft – is there any way to demo it?

[Timothy Anderson]

Hey Kris –

Thanks a bunch for the suggested settings. The only thing I can’t duplicate is the ‘Field Dominance: Top First’ setting because my project dictates a Progressive selection to Compressor.

I did a stand-alone though and noticed a small improvement with your settings though – mostly in the slight drop-shadow behind the red text was a bit cleaner s thank you very much.

Other than that, I think this is the best Compressor can reasonably do. I have a question for you – is this something ‘better’ high-end professional grade DVD replication/encoding can do a lot better from an HD master? I.E. distributed DVDs of a film, etc…?

Tim

[Timothy Anderson]

Sounds good Kris – thank you – I hope to hear from you and will play with some things this afternoon as well. No, the text is not moving – just still title cards. Unfortunately, however, I am under the restriction of that red text as of right now…

Tim

[Timothy Anderson]

The font is Myriad Pro – Bold Condensed with a drop shadow (multiply, x-offset 2, y-offset 0, 1 pixel blur, at 70% opacity), and inner shadow (multiply, 28% opacity, 11 pixel blur, edge). All done in Illustrator as one layer then brought into Motion as an .ai file.

I understand I may be hitting a wall of sorts in MPEG-2 compression ability of Compressor for these titles, but if you could achieve any better results that would be awesome.

In terms of specs, I am not sure what specs specifically (i.e. project specs, FCP, etc.?) you are looking for that aren’t already in the thread – could you tell me?

Thank you very much for your help and time – it is much appreciated.

Tim

[Timothy Anderson]

Hey Jeremy,

First of all, thank you very much for your time and efforts to help me – I really appreciate it.

I checked both out and it seems your results in Compressor mirror mine – I think it is just the best Compressor can do (sigh). However, I do think the BitVice result was an improvement – most noticeably in the preservation of the red, and on the O’s and d – I just don’t have BitVice – maybe I will demo for the time being…

As for the Motion workflow, actually the titles were brought into Motion as raw Illustrator .ai files – I will double check to make sure they weren’t multi-layered and .PDF compatible, however. I was mistaken about the .PNG part – the only titles to come through to me that were .PNGs were for the DVD Menu. The sample QT I put up was a raw transparent Illustrator file exported as HD ProRes 4444 at ‘best’ everything out of Motion…

I just don’t think Compressor can do a better job and BitVice does it slightly better, although both leave a bit to be desired obviously…

Thank You very much though…

Tim

[Timothy Anderson]

Hi Kris,

Uploaded a sample QT of the title cards giving me the trouble.

907_loopdiloopsample.mov.zip

Keep in mind I will be using Compressor > DVDSP for the SD DVD and it will be part of a feature-length project.

Tim

[Timothy Anderson]

Ok cool – thank you – I uploaded via ZIP a sample QT of one of the title cards.

907_loopdiloopsample.mov.zip

Thanks for your time in advance. Please keep in mind I will be using Compressor for the the MPEG-2 and it will be part ultimately of a feature-length project with a TRT of 89 mins. Also, I cannot use 2 PASS VBR BEST setting due to the pulsing problem it creates later in the project (regular TWO PASS is fine). I am running Compressor 3.5.1 and FCP 7 and will be burning an NTSC SD DVD in DVDSP.

All of my MPEG-2 attempts with the titles result in muddy, blocky, pixelated, just poor quality titles in the sequence.

Thank You!
Tim

[Timothy Anderson]

Hi Neil,

Thank you so much – will do!

Tim