mcguyver
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Apr 19, 2006, 3:56 PM
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Re: [bbalser] Help with a FCP HDV workflow
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You have some very unnessisary steps in that work flow. You really need to switch to DVD Studio Pro. You'd do your HDV nativley (or use the Apple Intermediate Codec for better editing). Not sure why you're doing stuff to slo-mo unless you shoot with a slow shutter speed, then you do need to clean up the motion blur.
When I've done editing for another videographer, whenever I applied slo-mo to a shot, he would complain that it would flicker badly on his video monitor when he played it. (Looked fine on my NTSC monitor) So he had me apply flicker filter (max setting) to any shot that had slo-mo applied to it.
Why are you de-interlacing everything? That's a waste of time.
Sorry, I should have been more clear with that step - I DON'T apply deinterlace to everything YET. I was wondering if it was a necessary step. Obviously it's not, so I can eliminate that step of course.
I'd let Compressor do the conversion. Don't blow anything up to fill the screen or anything. Let Compressor do it all for you. And be a professional, get DVDSP, trash iDVD, it's hobbyiest software, not for pros.
We DO have DVDSP and are making the transition to it. The few times we've tested Compressor, we've not had good results with the output. We'd get distortion everytime there was movement in the frame (where every two or three lines of the screen was shifted to the right)
Can anyone share their settings for sending HDV to Compressor?
Also, at the last WEVA EXPO, there was an Apple session the first day that I missed (anyone go to this?). A comment I heard from someone who went was that there was a way to bypass Compressor and just import the edited HDV Quicktime file directly into DVDSP (since it's already an MPEG2 file.)
However, when we tested this, we'd get the same distortion as when using Compressor.
So the only solution we found so far has been what I listed in my first post. If anyone has any specific settings to recommend, it would be GREATLY appreciated.
Todd
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