Downconversion woes
by schmattakid
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Sep 30, 2007 at 9:11:25 pm
Finishing a 90min. doc. All the footage is 1080i 29.97 ProRes HQ. Downconverting to SD to make a dvd for a festival submission. (I'd like to master to HD first-- but we're in a time crunch).
It's complicated-- but mastering to tape-- recapturing downconverted, making a dvd-- in a time crunch.
So I have been trying to export downconverted reels out of my FCP timeline 'QUICKTIME with SD 10bit uncompressed settings -- and the exported files look stepped with bad aliasing problems around the edges.
Meanwhile, if I just set my KONA's secondary output to downconvert and playback-- it looks clean.
Why is this? I'd rather not have to output to Tape-- recapture, Add my lower thirds and make a DVD. Since we're not ready to master yet.
Re: Downconversion woes by walter biscardi on Sep 30, 2007 at 9:59:28 pm
Hardware downconversion is much cleaner than FCP's software conversion.
Keep in mind that HD is Upper Field First, SD is Lower Field first so you're also making a field conversion. Again, hardware does a cleaner job of this than FCP.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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