[Tom Brooks]

I’m looking for a similar solution and am puzzled as yet. I have 720P 59.94 that doesn’t look good when encoded to SD MPEG-2 29.97 progressive. It appears that both of the 59.94 frames are retained in the 29.97 frames, causing an ugly jagginess on certain moving objects in the frame when viewed on an interlaced monitor. What I need is to remove half of the 60P frames and then duplicate the rest to end up with 30P. I do have a Pioneer DVD player/recorder that makes the DVD look OK when it is set to Real Cinema mode. It must be removing pulldown in that mode? I’m hoping we both get an answer from your post.
-Tom

[Tom Brooks]

Is it not possible with the LHe to output 720p to a Panasonic DVCPROHD VTR and then use the VTR to cross-convert to 1080i?

[Tom Brooks]

Your content–a constantly moving camera shot–is the least advantageous for VBR. So 2-pass CBR would be the best choice at this point. The test will answer whether the extra pass is worthwhile for you.

[Tom Brooks]

Yes, it surely looks like poor scaling in the encoder. Very disappointing. I’ll try the PC route, but since I’m in Final Cut I’ll have to export a Quicktime and use Sorenson. Thanks.
-Tom

[Tom Brooks]

Andy,
Based on your info I got nuttin much to offer. It looks like the sensor in the camera is saturating on the overexposed white and then overshoots on the adjacent darker tone.

Is there any deinterlacing applied to this footage?

The fact that the problem is worse in MPEG makes me suspect something wrong with the fields. On a long shot, you might try converting a short section to progressive before encoding to MPEG and see if it makes any difference. Export self-contained Quicktime Movie as PhotoJPEG (or Motion JPEG-A?) at 100%, progressive, frame controls set to Better, and then try the MPEG-2 encode from that. Of course, this will change the motion characteristics of your video, which might not be acceptable. -Tom

[Tom Brooks]

Andy,
Based on your info I got nuttin much to offer. It looks like the sensor in the camera is saturating on the overexposed white and then overshoots on the adjacent darker tone.

Is there any deinterlacing applied to this footage?

The fact that the problem is worse in MPEG makes me suspect something wrong with the fields. On a long shot, you might try converting a short section to progressive before encoding to MPEG and see if it makes any difference. Export self-contained Quicktime Movie as PhotoJPEG (or Motion JPEG-A?) at 100%, progressive, frame controls set to Better, and then try the MPEG-2 encode from that. Of course, this will change the motion characteristics of your video, which might not be acceptable. -Tom

[Tom Brooks]

Andy,
Based on your info I got nuttin much to offer. It looks like the sensor in the camera is saturating on the overexposed white and then overshoots on the adjacent darker tone.

Is there any deinterlacing applied to this footage?

The fact that the problem is worse in MPEG makes me suspect something wrong with the fields. On a long shot, you might try converting a short section to progressive before encoding to MPEG and see if it makes any difference. Export self-contained Quicktime Movie as PhotoJPEG (or Motion JPEG-A?) at 100%, progressive, frame controls set to Better, and then try the MPEG-2 encode from that. Of course, this will change the motion characteristics of your video, which might not be acceptable. -Tom

[Tom Brooks]

Andy, I’m not sure what you mean by “Lower Field selected out of FCP, so no strobing in Compressor.” I have a couple of hunches, but I’d like to understand this before making a suggestion. Do you know if that footage was shot with a tube camera as opposed to a CCD camera? It looks vaguely familiar from the tube days. Thx.
-Tom

[Tom Brooks]

Start by exporting a self-contained QT movie from FCP using current settings. Compress to HD DVD format in Compressor. Warning-It’s slow.
Try the standard Compressor preset for HD DVD H.264 for DVD Studio Pro 60 Minutes (or 90 Minutes). Then use a standard AC3 preset for audio. Then import these into DVD Studio Pro and make an HD DVD. You might have to adjust prefs in DVD SP with regard to HD DVDs. I have seen a tutorial, I think from “Inside DVD Studio Pro 4”, that goes over HD DVD creation.

This way, you get all the control over your media that you get in any DVD and you can update it by revising the DVDSP project–importing new assets and adding tracks, then rebuilding it.

They look great on a fast Mac. Not sure how a Mini will play them, since it has a much less capable video display than the more powerful Macs.

Final Cut Studio, FCP 5.1.4, After Effects 6.5 Pro, Quicktime 7.1.5, G5 Quad 2.5, Kona-LHe V3.3, 4.5GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce 7800-GT, G-RAID 2x1TB FW800, Mac OS-X 10.4.9.

[Tom Brooks]

More from FFM support just in. By the way, this came exactly two hours after my question submitted on their support website. Impressive in terms of technical support response, I’d say.
-Tom

HI Thomas,
Let me know how it goes. We will be releasing a total fix this summer.

Best regards.
Ben Brown SR
Fllip4Mac Support