[Uli Plank]

Hi Shane!

I suppose you did great work there, and Compressor is doing pretty good conversions.

Just one suggestion: if the footage originated from film, you should be able to remove pulldown first. So you’d have progressive images to start with and much better uprezzing (I’m currently doing a lot of testing on the whole subject). Or were they in some kind of silent movie speed? Things might get difficult with anything else but 24 fps.

The best uprezzing I’ve found so far is Photo Zoom Pro, but it’s difficult to use with movies (only image sequences) and very slow. Both ReSizer and Instant HD do a decent job.

Regards,

Uli

Author of “DVDs gestalten und produzieren”, a book on professional DVD-authoring in German.

[Uli Plank]

The Media Manager is your friend!

Regards,

Uli

Author of “DVDs gestalten und produzieren”, a book on professional DVD-authoring in German.

[Uli Plank]

Excuse me, do you read other threads too?

Regards,

Uli

Author of “DVDs gestalten und produzieren”, a book on professional DVD-authoring in German.

[Uli Plank]

If your source is P2, you won’t need any additional hardware for input and editing. You may want a Kona or a BlachMagic card for external viewing or output to tape, though.

Regards,

Uli

Author of “DVDs gestalten und produzieren”, a book on professional DVD-authoring in German.

[Uli Plank]

follow this link to get the english version of our article concerning
720p25 and 720p50 DVCPRO HD support and worklfow with the
HVX200.

https://www.aulich-adamski.de/en/perm/panasonic-ag-hvx200-720p2550-p2-workflow-mit-final-cut-pro

Best
Bjoern

Author of “DVDs gestalten und produzieren”, a book on professional DVD-authoring in German.

[Uli Plank]

One more thing: always disconnect the card on the PowerBook with the little icon in the menu bar too (after ejecting from the desktop) or your PowerBook might crash on rare occasions.

Regards,

Uli

Author of “DVDs gestalten und produzieren”, a book on professional DVD-authoring in German.

[Uli Plank]

Depends on the kind of apps you use 😉

(OK, this is kind of OT)

CineBench is giving me a CPU score of 1340, the highest one I’ve ever seen (and we have quite a few powerful PCs in our labs too). If you are working in 3D-animation with Cinema4D, this box is leaving everything else in the dust!

Which is a clear sign of the potential Apple has yet to explore…

Regards,

Uli

Author of “DVDs gestalten und produzieren”, a book on professional DVD-authoring in German.

[Uli Plank]

You could give the film filters from Graeme Nattress a try. One is called “G Chroma Sharpen” (the name is a tad misleading), which is interpolating or smoothing the reduced color information of DV.

There’s a very informative white paper on his site about the problem and you can download a demo version of the filter package ( http://www.nattress.com ).

Hope this helps,

Uli

Author of “DVDs gestalten und produzieren”, a book on professional DVD-authoring in German.

[Uli Plank]

I’d go for HD, in my impression the camera is optimized for it. Why not use the higher resolution and later scale down the final composite to SD? You’ll be scaling down any minor artefacts as well that might still be there. The codec is mor or less the same, and it’s a good one for keying.

Regards,

Uli

Author of “DVDs gestalten und produzieren”, a book on professional DVD-authoring in German.

[Uli Plank]

Scale it down to SD size, then:

If you are working for PAL: speed it up to 25 psf.
If it’s for NTSC: add 3.2 pulldown.

Regards,

Uli

Author of “DVDs gestalten und produzieren”, a book on professional DVD-authoring in German.