Help me solve this compression artifact problem

[Geno]

Long post here so bear with me. Shot some interviews with a DVX100a in 24p(n). Captured into FCP4.5. At the time the project looked destined for DVD. Next thing you know, maybe this could go to the silver screen. Decided to finish shooting interviews and b-roll with an HVX200 in 720p. Took all my 480p (with anamorphic lens) and ran it through Cinema Tools to remove pulldown and make 23.98. Upgraded to FCS2. Most of the interviews (10 others) look quite good just being dropped into a 720p timeline. But one of them has some nasty artifacting. Here is where the mystery gets juicy. When I play this tape from a dv deck through s-video onto a projector (720p) You cant see any artifacting whatsoever. A projector blows it up to 80" and makes it easy to see all detail. But here is what it looks like now (anamorphic-ally squeezed) http://web.mac.com/genebrockhoff/iWeb/Site/C%20Jordan%20mystery.html Notice the red jaggies along his nose, as well as the blue spill in the ear. I purchased a Matrox MXO and a new 20" display hoping that it would reveal that Cinema Desktop Preview was introducing these artifacts but if anything, it revealed it more. The MXO is doing it's job to my disappointment. Is this a QuickTime thing, a DVCPro thing, or a Cinema Tools thing? What are my options to re-capture this footage without buying an expensive capture card? Also when I make a DVD of it, it seems to disappear as well.

[Shane Ross]

Bad link....

But really, if you want to upconvert DV to HD, you have to do it properly.

1) Dub it to DVCPRO HD using a Terranex box. This will be handled by a post facility.
2) Capture using a Kona 3 and the built in upconvert capabilities. Looks very good.
3) Upconvert using the ADVANCED CONVERSION options in COmpressor. In the FRAME tab, make it CUSTOM and make all the settings BEST. This will take a LONG time.
4) Check out Instant HD from www.redgiantsoftware.com. There is a Demo...see what it can do.

[VaricamLife]

(1) What Shane said.

(2) Based upon your description, my guess would be that your outputs are looking okay because your outputs are in SD. Your digitized DVX ("clean") footage is SD. So then FCP doesn't have to convert frame sizes for output. I know with the DVD it will reference your source files for the MPEG-2 if you're exporting directly from the timeline to Compressor. With the projector I thought FCP would output the rendered file, but I'm not that familiar with how the guts of the new mixed format timelines work. So perhaps that too is reading the source file not some kind of poor upconverted render file. And your projector might be 720p, but if you're feeding it a signal as you described, you're sending it a SD signal.

Cheers.