Re: [Avid-L2] Re: OT - footage that looked ok in Seq, has interpolation prob in D

Ditto on that. When encoding from D1 for DVD, I always crop 4 top and 2
bottom.

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*john heiser | senior video editor*
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On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 11:51 AM, johnrobmoore <bigfish@pacbell.net> wrote:

>
>
> I've always been told to crop in even numbers 4 and 2 or 2 and 4 I guess.
> Using odd numbers of crop will invert the field order. Not something I've
> had to deal with first hand but that's what I've read in threads over the
> years. I have experienced the freaky banding when importing into Avid where
> the 480 gets stretched to 486.
>
>
> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Steve Hullfish <steve4lists@...> wrote:
> >
> > Right.
> >
> > The problem is that if you have a movie that is 720 x 480 and you BLOW IT
> UP to 720 x 486 you get these freaky "interpolation-like" banding lines.
> Better to just add three lines of black at the top and bottom.
> >
> > You also don't want to take a 720 x 486 and squish it to a 720 x 480 DVD
> size. It's better to just crop off 3 lines from the top and 3 lines from the
> bottom than to try to divide 486 into 480.
> >
> > That's some ugly math.
> >
> > Steve Hullfish
> > contributor: www.provideocoalition.com
> > author: "The Art and Technique of Digital Color Correction"
> >
> > On Apr 27, 2011, at 8:51 AM, Bouke wrote:
> >
> > > No, pad means ADD LINES without distorting your orignial image.
> > > (As crop means remove lines without distoring your original image)
> > >
> > > Bouke
> > >
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> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Paul Dougherty" <lists@...>
> > > To: <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
> > > Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2011 1:35 PM
> > > Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] Re: OT - footage that looked ok in Seq, has
> > > interpolation prob in D
> > >
> > > > Thanks Jonathan,
> > > >
> > > > Someone from C Cow said "adjust to Crop/Pad for DV line difference"
> > > > - I guess pad means resize or blow up (ditto your concert
> > > > suggestion), I'll try both
> > > >
> > > > Paul
> > > >
> > > >>
> > > >>I have run into this problem as early as last week. I found that when
> I
> > > >>ripped the dvd and converted it to mov files (using tmpgenc), the
> video
> > > >>needed to be converted to 720x486 instead of 720x480. Also, I had to
> > > >>check the field order in tmpgenc and make sure that on import the
> avid
> > > >>field order was the same. In this case, it was upper field first.
> > > >>
> > > >>The computer (pc or mac) will always show dvd's as progressive as
> their
> > > >>displays are not interlaced. For that reason, I would grab a standard
> > > >>dvd player and check it on that as well as the computer.
> > > >>
> > > >>Hope this helps.
> > > >>
> > > >>--
> > > >>Jonathan Donley
> > > >>Field 1 Post, LLC
> > > >>"Delivering Your Message...Using Video and the Internet"
> > > >>
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