Zak Ray
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Good point.
Nearly all of it was acquired from NTSC DV, so I’ve been just telling Compressor to do lower field rather than even giving it a chance to interpret.
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I’m talking about the master here. Assuming I have a digital master that will never be broadcast, is there any reason not to convert the master to square pixels?
That’s all I’m doing– I’m not touching the interlacing or anything, since that would hobble the quality if I ever wanted to do something with it again. But square pixels seems like a reasonable thing to do to ensure uniformity and prevent misinterpretation by other apps. And I can always change it back, because it’s just stretching the PAR.
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Anyone have any thoughts on this? Is there any reason not to convert my material to square-pixels if it’s never going out to broadcast, and likely just the web>
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Really depends on the type of plugins. Maybe here:
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Is this a bad idea? I mean, they’re never going to broadcast and they’re never going to be re-cut, I just think it makes more sense to make them square pixels in an increasingly-square-pixel world.
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Do the dancers actually move in front of the sticker? If not, just duplicate and superimpose the layer, crop down to a good brick without the sticker, and drag it over the sticker.
If they do? The process is the same, but you’ve got to rotoscope the new brick in and out each time they pass in front of it.
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Wouldn’t lowering the vertical resolution mess up the interlacing?
I’m converting them because their only application is to the web, and it’s easier for me to work with square pixels for what I’m doing.
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Pretty sure 853 is the anamorphic equivalent of 640.
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Normally you’d be right, ProRes maintains the PAR of it’s source which in my case would be DV Anamorphic PAR, but I’m doing this conversion to make a square-pixel version, so I set the resolution to 853×480 and the PAR to 1.0.
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Hm, well boosting the Frame Controls quality seems to have helped the degradation issue. The before and after now both look pretty much the same in QT7.
So I guess the one thing I want to be sure of is, what’s happening in QTX? Is it deinterlacing and blending the before? If so, why not the after?