thefilmaddict
Veteran
I shot my movie with the Varicam and the HVX200.
I digitized using a Panasonic 1200 Deck via Kona HD SDI in.
I used AJA KONA DVCPRO HD 59.94 720 24p varicam preset.
I edited the project. Everything looks good (on a small screen at home), but as the timeline reached 20 minutes and I have about 9 layers of audio, playback is not great (the image becomes strobe like at times).
Before spitting back out to tape, I exported a quicktime movie (same settings as edit), then brought it back into FCP. Because the movie is now one 20 minute clip, it plays back fine (no more strobe problem).
I outputted back to the HD deck, then brought it to work and digitized it into the AVID DS NITRIS UNCOMPRESSED.
I am doing this in order to do some quick color correcting before making DVD's to enter into film festivals. Eventually, I will buy the duck program and rebuild the project on the Nitris, but for now, this will have to do.
Here's my problem: The video on the Nitris looks OK, but very compressed (lots of blocks in the gradient dark area). I can't tell if I caused this in the FCP process and can now only see it at work on a big monitor or if converting to one 20 minute clip killed the quality.
Where did I go wrong?
I digitized using a Panasonic 1200 Deck via Kona HD SDI in.
I used AJA KONA DVCPRO HD 59.94 720 24p varicam preset.
I edited the project. Everything looks good (on a small screen at home), but as the timeline reached 20 minutes and I have about 9 layers of audio, playback is not great (the image becomes strobe like at times).
Before spitting back out to tape, I exported a quicktime movie (same settings as edit), then brought it back into FCP. Because the movie is now one 20 minute clip, it plays back fine (no more strobe problem).
I outputted back to the HD deck, then brought it to work and digitized it into the AVID DS NITRIS UNCOMPRESSED.
I am doing this in order to do some quick color correcting before making DVD's to enter into film festivals. Eventually, I will buy the duck program and rebuild the project on the Nitris, but for now, this will have to do.
Here's my problem: The video on the Nitris looks OK, but very compressed (lots of blocks in the gradient dark area). I can't tell if I caused this in the FCP process and can now only see it at work on a big monitor or if converting to one 20 minute clip killed the quality.
Where did I go wrong?