Thanks in advance for all the help, past, present, and future!
Forgive me, as I originally posted this over at lafcpug, as they have a specific, " Apple Compressor," forum, and that is where this problem is occuring. They were not able to offer any great solutions, other than using the anti aliasing slider in Compressor, which will reduce the quality for the entire project, perhaps with no great result either. (Now, if I could keyframe those sliders in Compressor, maybe... well, keep dreaming.)
It may just be a lesson learned.
But, then I thought that maybe there was something in AE that could be done, (other than a mask, as this character is in frame a good five minutes. And, this guy doesn't stop moving, as you will be able to see in the vid.)
The FCP project is HDV 720p, and I am editing and exporting Apple ProRes 422.
The moire issue was not noticeable on my QT export from FCP, even blown up on a 46" 1080p HDTV.
But once Compressor finished with it, the moire pattern is unbelievably distracting.
I know, don't shoot anything with crazy horizontal lines like that. But this was on the fly shooting down in Haiti after the quake, and wardrobe for a doc subject was not on the list.
Btw, I was initially not happy with the first DVD's I created. The down conversion from 720p to DVD, certainly didn't help, but I am much happier with my newly tweaked compressor settings, such as enabling frame controls for downsizing, helped a lot.
Except for the psychedelic moire.
Anyway, here is a link to a short clip depicting the problem. As this clip hasn't been encoded to m2v and muxed to DVD, and then blown up, it doesn't really show the moire, but you will see what I mean. (I am also having a similar problem with piles of rubble in the background of hand held shots. Same sort of thing, but without the psychedelic effect.)
Here is a link to the vid, off site.
http://img834.imageshack.us/img834/9611/crzyshirt.mp4
And here is a still, if the vid doesn't load for some reason.
And for the heck of it, a still of the rubble which after encoding, doesn't have a moire problem, but appears to "shake," behind the subjects. It is a hand held shot...
