Vince Becquiot
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You could call a local transfer company. Most of them will have a telecyne system.
Vince
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I believe so, unless you batch captured with logs ?
Vince
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GSM issue only, so there’s a good way to discriminate against Cingular users. This is actually a pretty big issue; it even interferes with hearing aids. I wonder if the FCC spent much time looking at that before hand, or they just spend all their time watching the superbowl over and over 😉
Vince
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Where does the footage come from ? There are some issue that arise from RGB to YUV and the symptom is usually what you describe.
Other than that, you can work with the “levels” effect, play with the gamma function as well (also part of levels).
Vince
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You best software option, if you want to spend a few bucks is Canopus Procoder, they also have a ‘lite version’.
Of course you’ll have to redo all the menus, and no matter what, the quality will be pretty desirable, especially with mpeg2 compression; you’ll probably get some jitter in motion areas.
Vince
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You will some type of motion tracking and masks. That would be an After Effect type of project.
If it’s a really short sequence, you could use the circle effect and animate it manually (sorry only a circle shape available here.)
To do this you can use the original clip, but I would duplicate it to avoid issues later down the road:
Duplicate the footage you want to apply blur to, and place it above the original (in sync).
Apply Gaussian blur to the duplicated footage, and give it the amount of blur you want.
Then apply the circle effect to the duplicated footage. Change the blending mode to stencil alpha.
Then keyframe the positions and radius to follow the action. You can also play with feather to get the desired effect.
You could also use the garbage matte to a duplicated clip, blur it and animate either 4,8, or 16 points, but that will be much more time consuming.
Vince
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I’m not sure what your budget is, but you could start by looking at these.
https://www.cddimensions.com/dvd_duplicator/dvd-duplicator.asp
Vince
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What you explained to them is exactly right, but there are a few more things to consider.
One is the player they use to play the DVD. Windows Media for example does a very bad job at uprezing.
Two, unless you are providing them with big budget DVDs, it’s not going to look like the movie they watched on that same computer the night before, (footage shot on DV or HDV and then re-compressed to mpeg2 is going to look pretty bad compared to that big budget movie).
And of course, a computer monitor will tend to show many of these compression artifacts that weren’t visible or a TV or a broadcast monitor. I would tell them that unless they play it at the standard size (not full screen) they will see a significant loss of quality, but that no matter what, the amount of money they spent on the source will reflect the final DVD. You could also hand them a progressive DVD if they are only playing them on computers.
Vince
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Thanks Jeff.
Glad I could be of some help… Enjoy the rest of your holidays as well.
Vince
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A submix actually would work too. Submix are used in the Mixer panel.
Here are a few tips to get you started:
If you have ever used a real mixer, it really works the same way…
Once you have created your Submix tracks, go to the Audio Mixer window. There, you will see your current tracks, as well as submixes.
They are all set to master by default. Now, at the bottom of the original track faders to which you want to apply effects, change the drop down menu to say “Submix 1. At this point, any effect you add to submix 1 will affect the tracks that are sent (set) to that Submix, follow me so far ?
To add an effect, look for that little arrow at the top left inside the Audio Mixer window; clicking it will expand the effect menu. Then go the the Submix 1 column and you will be able to add effects from there by clicking those little gray arrows inside it.
Hope that helpsVince