bifter
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Here's my experience using this on a 2.66 dual Intel Mac with 6Gig of Memory, running FCP 5.1.4 on Mac OS 10.4.10, working on PAL 4:3 interlaced footage from a DVX100 to create an anamorphic 16:9 PAL DV version of my movie:
I exported my movie, reimported it and added a deinterlace filter, exported the video as uncompressed TIFFs via QT conversion @ 25 frames per second. My finding is that interlaced footage looks terrible after this process.
I divided those TIFs in groups of 1000 to separate folders. In PZ2 I proceeded folder by folder, unclicking the 'Maintain Aspect Ratio' checkbox each time and setting the vertical print size to 768. On Run, all output TIFs were sent to the same folder.
My computer would do each folder of 1000 images in about half an hour. If you raise the number in the batch, the processing slows noticably by the end.
After processing all frames, I used Quicktime to 'import image sequence' @ 25 fps. Select the first frame of the sequence and QT adds together all the sequentially-numbered stills in the folder. I saved this as a self-contained movie.
I started a New PAL DV Sequence in FCP and ticked it as anamorphic in the Browser. I imported the new quicktime movie and ticked it as anamorphic.
I dropped this onto the timeline then I then double-clicked on it to bring it up in the Viewer. In the 'motion tab' I changed the 'distort' setting to Zero, and the 'Scale' to 100. The unwanted black bars from the letterboxing, while visible in the individual TIFs, were outside of the 16:9 area after this expansion and so disappeared.
I rendered this, then added just the audio from the original interlaced version.
Note that I found that I had to reapply a broadcast safe filter to a section that was 'safe' before this process - so check your ranges.
Job done. Takes ages & ages &ages, but looks great.
-thanks to all who've given the advice I've read here - especially disjecta.
I exported my movie, reimported it and added a deinterlace filter, exported the video as uncompressed TIFFs via QT conversion @ 25 frames per second. My finding is that interlaced footage looks terrible after this process.
I divided those TIFs in groups of 1000 to separate folders. In PZ2 I proceeded folder by folder, unclicking the 'Maintain Aspect Ratio' checkbox each time and setting the vertical print size to 768. On Run, all output TIFs were sent to the same folder.
My computer would do each folder of 1000 images in about half an hour. If you raise the number in the batch, the processing slows noticably by the end.
After processing all frames, I used Quicktime to 'import image sequence' @ 25 fps. Select the first frame of the sequence and QT adds together all the sequentially-numbered stills in the folder. I saved this as a self-contained movie.
I started a New PAL DV Sequence in FCP and ticked it as anamorphic in the Browser. I imported the new quicktime movie and ticked it as anamorphic.
I dropped this onto the timeline then I then double-clicked on it to bring it up in the Viewer. In the 'motion tab' I changed the 'distort' setting to Zero, and the 'Scale' to 100. The unwanted black bars from the letterboxing, while visible in the individual TIFs, were outside of the 16:9 area after this expansion and so disappeared.
I rendered this, then added just the audio from the original interlaced version.
Note that I found that I had to reapply a broadcast safe filter to a section that was 'safe' before this process - so check your ranges.
Job done. Takes ages & ages &ages, but looks great.
-thanks to all who've given the advice I've read here - especially disjecta.
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