should i export 8-bit uncompressed from a DV project?
by cegelfand
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Jul 30, 2007 at 4:49:14 am
dual 2.5 g5, 7gb RAM, 500gb G-raid
Working on an SD DV project in FCP 6.01. People keep saying in different forums that final product will look better by exporting in uncompressed 8 or 10 bit? Is this true? I tried exporting my three minute piece and the text (Livetype based) looked worse on the 8 and 10 bit exports than on the regular DV NTSC export.
Should I just stick with the straight DV export or is there something I'm missing?
Re: should i export 8-bit uncompressed from a DV project? by rafalaos on Jul 30, 2007 at 7:11:27 am
Hi cegelfand,
Without seen your films, yours set-ups and how your monitoring it, is difficult to know where is the problem, but objectively a DV clip treated in a 8/10b Unc time-line can look much better than the same in his DV time-line.
I shoot DVCam them I cut in a DV time-line. When I got my movie eddited, first I drop the Nattress "Chroma Sharpen" plugin. Then I color correct. The result is that sometimes I can not belive that those images come from my very camera. I always work with an external interlaced monitor (now a good JVC, before a cheap Sony TV).
Try it because is really worth even if you end-up in a DVD.
Cheers,
rafael
Re: should i export 8-bit uncompressed from a DV project? by Tom Brooks on Jul 31, 2007 at 2:45:30 am
If you simply export to a new format, heck no, it won't look better. But if you put your title clips into an uncompressed sequence, that's something altogether different.
Your Livetype titles could indeed look better if placed in an 8 or 10 bit uncompressed sequence. (I assume you have put a LiveType PROJECT clip on your timeline, not a .mov rendered out from LiveType.)
But let's face it, it's not always as dramatic as some of us insist. It really depends on the color content of the titles.
Theoretically, live action video originally captured in DV may look a tiny bit worse because you're starting with DV and then re-rendering it in another codec.
