Re: Hey Jeremy - P2 24p & 29.97 mixed timeline question

But the big question, how do I now go to DVD?

And, ah yes, the 16:9 was regular old SD 30p. Not sure what it was shot on, but didn't have any fields. 29.97 I guess actually. I'm sure they just used frame or movie mode or progressive or whatever. We were just given the media files from another company.

I tried using compressor to convert the 29.97 to 24 and that was not good. Not to mention it wanted to take 15minutes for each 30 sec clip or so. The compression times were horrible.

A quick trick I found useful, only because our 29.97 stuff was just jib arm beauty shots, was to open them in cinema tools and conform them to play back at 24. Then then looked in beautiful in a 24p sequence of course. But if you had an interview or something, this wouldn't do.

I also had the problem of scaling up the SD to HD. Compressor stunk at this. FCP stunk at this. The matrox mini does a great job of this from the canvas to the LCD, but once you drop the clip in the timeline, the job gets handed over to FCP. UGH. The best answer by far is After Effects. It's scaling engine is the best by far and it only takes a few seconds to render each clip. I also put a little sharpening on each shot and a little "instant sex" tiny glow ala Trish and Chris Meyer. The result is a shot that is very very close to it's HD counterparts.