Tom Brooks
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[davebarrymedia] “When going into my settings, in theory I have everything lined up to 23.98 fps, but the footage is still sub par.”
What is sub-par about it? Did you shoot in the Advanced Pulldown mode, 480pA24?
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Guys, if jnolla has a combination of interlaced video and some Motion segments, could you detail the actual workflow that would be used to deinterlace the non-Motion parts and then combine it with the Motion stuff (rendered with no fields)? Would that result in the best quality in the Motion segments?
Or would you simply do the whole thing interlaced and then use the FieldsKit filter on all of it at the end? In this case the final sequence would have the same settings as the original, but the nested sequence would have the deinterlace filter applied to it.
Hope I’m not muddying the waters too much.
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Nice tip. Faster than right click on the timeline and select “Open in Viewer.”
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Thanks for the followup. Don’t know that much about OpenGL renders. I thought it was more for rendering previews instead of output. It’s impossible to keep up with all the ins and outs!
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You don’t mention the use of a standards converter at all–only the two VTRs. Is there a nice Snell & Wilcox that was not mentioned?
I’d take Graeme up on the offer to help and go that route. -
The flock of sheep wipe was popular around here.
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That’s a real tough one. If you had shot at a higher frame rate, I’d suggest you slo-mo the footage. At 24f you don’t have much room to slow down. But, if you do have a few really steady parts you might be able to cut the speed in half to lengthen the duration of those parts. Maybe you can get creative to save it. How about you simulate a still camera shoot and let it go all mushy with motion blur until you find a good still frame–then click!
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No offense intended if I ask things that are basic or obvious to you. That doesn’t look like normal DV compression to me. It’s really ugly. It looks about 1/2 resolution–as if it’s deinterlaced by throwing away one field. Does your AE render look good in Quicktime prior to import to FCP? Are you sure the rendered Quicktime is at Best quality and Full resolution?
Normal workflow would be a 720×480 DV comp in AE. Photos would be interpreted as square pixel. Render fields, lower first (assuming that matches your FCP sequence). I’m sure you tried that combination among others.
If the animations are good prior to placement in FCP but bad inside FCP, look to your sequence settings to explain the trouble. If your FCP sequence is plain old 29.97 NTSC DV, interlaced lower first, your AE render must match that in terms of frame size, frame rate, and field rendering. Also check to make sure your AE clip has not been moved or scaled via a FCP motion effect.
I love a mystery. Be sure to let us know if you find the fix.
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It has more to do with the macroblock structure of the codec. MPEG-2 frame sizes should be evenly divisible by 16. That’s for encoding and decoding efficiency. Then you have the allowable frame sizes in the DVD spec on top of that. Ben Waggoner’s book on comression (Compression for Great Digital Video) has some pretty good info on this in layman’s terms.
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My terminology was a little loose on that post. Compressor makes the MPEG-2 file. DVD Studio Pro can then use that asset to make a DVD which has the adaptable aspect feature I mentioned.