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YellowDude · 10-04-2007, 10:52 PM

Dudes,

We are edditing a HDV movie in Finalcut Pro and the image is perfect.

When we render the movie to AVI or MOV to make a Mpg or Wmv the quality is sucking major ass!

What kind of program are you using to convert?

Thanks in advange

Lance69 · 10-04-2007, 11:45 PM

Looking interlacy (<-- Techie term) and shit when you play the raw footage after export? Like before you encode right? Probably to much for the player to handle, after encoding and de-interlacing (if done properly) should look pristine. Try finishing the workflow and see how it turns out.
(Unless I'm reading you wrong)

Bird · 10-13-2007, 04:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lance69

Looking interlacy (<-- Techie term) and shit when you play the raw footage after export? Like before you encode right? Probably to much for the player to handle, after encoding and de-interlacing (if done properly) should look pristine. Try finishing the workflow and see how it turns out.
(Unless I'm reading you wrong)

what he said or convert strait to mpeg

smoker_420 · 10-13-2007, 04:58 AM

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Bird · 10-13-2007, 05:00 AM

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Originally Posted by smoker_420

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Thats right Brodah

Jim_Gunn · 10-13-2007, 07:38 AM

Lance is right, if you shoot with a 1080i (interlaced) camera like, say, the Sony FX-1, you MUST deinterlace the footage at some point between the capture stage, or on the timeline in the edit stage or on export to your intermediate or final format if you want it to look good on a computer monitor.

I always deinterlace upon capture, edit and then export a full sized Cineform codec AVI from my hdv footage and then take that huge file into a full featured video encoding app like Cleaner XL or Sorenson Squeeze to encode it to the final formats and add the watermarks if necessary.

FredIsMe · 10-13-2007, 07:50 AM

Skip going to AVI, just go straight to MPG

wateva · 10-13-2007, 08:13 AM

thx for the info..i also needed it

sinclair · 10-13-2007, 10:31 AM

I have found that Episode Pro works great. It's Mac based (you mentioned using Final Cut) so no worries there. I have used Cleaner and Squeeze. Episode Pro I find runs faster and has great presets if you dont like tweaking.

Sinclair

10-04-2007, 10:52 PM	#1
YellowDude Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Breda Posts: 1,031	HDV to WMV or MPG Dudes, We are edditing a HDV movie in Finalcut Pro and the image is perfect. When we render the movie to AVI or MOV to make a Mpg or Wmv the quality is sucking major ass! What kind of program are you using to convert? Thanks in advange

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Lance69 Confirmed User Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Vancouver BC Posts: 2,266	Looking interlacy (<-- Techie term) and shit when you play the raw footage after export? Like before you encode right? Probably to much for the player to handle, after encoding and de-interlacing (if done properly) should look pristine. Try finishing the workflow and see how it turns out. (Unless I'm reading you wrong) __________________ Sonarcash Competitive Content Shooting Handgasm HD Handjobs Janessa Jordan Ultimate Wife Make Money Fucking Blog ICQ: 307 975 028 lance {at} sonarcash {dot} com (<- Need amateur content? Email or ICQ) Last edited by Lance69; 10-04-2007 at 11:47 PM..

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sinclair Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 1,431	I have found that Episode Pro works great. It's Mac based (you mentioned using Final Cut) so no worries there. I have used Cleaner and Squeeze. Episode Pro I find runs faster and has great presets if you dont like tweaking. Sinclair __________________ -- skype:vmgsinclair "Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human sex."

10-13-2007, 07:38 AM	#6
Jim_Gunn Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Where The Teens Are Posts: 5,702	Lance is right, if you shoot with a 1080i (interlaced) camera like, say, the Sony FX-1, you MUST deinterlace the footage at some point between the capture stage, or on the timeline in the edit stage or on export to your intermediate or final format if you want it to look good on a computer monitor. I always deinterlace upon capture, edit and then export a full sized Cineform codec AVI from my hdv footage and then take that huge file into a full featured video encoding app like Cleaner XL or Sorenson Squeeze to encode it to the final formats and add the watermarks if necessary.

10-13-2007, 07:50 AM	#7
FredIsMe So Fucking Banned Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Livin' in America Posts: 2,406	Skip going to AVI, just go straight to MPG

10-13-2007, 08:13 AM	#8
wateva So Fucking Banned Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 492	thx for the info..i also needed it