Premium Members chris fawcett Posted February 1, 2008 Premium Members Report Share Posted February 1, 2008 I'll be interested to hear your results, Brad. I think selecting a frame rate different from source is a major mistake. I forgot to mention that the next thing I would try is deinterlace or denoise, but all this in the spirit of the roomful of monkeys banging away on typewriters. "To detelecine or not detelecine, that is the..." hey, it works for me (lie). Alan, you are obviously way ahead on this. What do you think? Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Members Benjamin Treplin Posted February 1, 2008 Premium Members Report Share Posted February 1, 2008 Hi all, have a lock at MPEG Streamclip http://www.squared5.com/ The best thing on this app is you're able to convert only the sequence you really need. It has tool for color, brightness, saturation, volume etc. Best Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Members Alan Greene Posted February 1, 2008 Premium Members Report Share Posted February 1, 2008 I'm more familiar with the previous version of Handbrake, before it included an option for reverse telecine. This new option might fix problems I had in the past with a few DVDs, where the resulting Quicktime movie would have an unwatchable cadence. In such cases, I would typically capture the movie in both standard and de-interlaced forms, then judge later which yielded a better result. Most turned out fine on the first try. I think the "format" menu is just a wrapper, I typically pick ".mov" but I don't think it makes a difference. Other than that and the bitrate, Chris' image looks like what I would use. Be sure to visit the audio tab and bump it up to 192 or so. At 4000kbps, a full movie ends up being between 2.5 and 3 GB. (You could just capture specific chapters if you know what you're looking for.) I use Quicktime Pro to then isolate certain shots and save them out as self-contained files, which does not re-compress them. Then you have a few sub-100MB movies that can be reformatted for DVD or web. Some editing programs don't like working with H.264 material, so you may have to convert to another format (I like ProRes). Especially if you're just picking out a few shots, trial and error goes a long way. Try different telecine/noise/interlacing/anamorphic settings and see what looks right. I hope that helps! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Members Brad Grimmett Posted February 2, 2008 Premium Members Report Share Posted February 2, 2008 Good tips guys. Thanks. I'll do a little more trial and error and see what happens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Members Dave Wowchuk Posted February 2, 2008 Premium Members Report Share Posted February 2, 2008 You can also try a program called Cinematize from Miraizon (http://www.miraizon.com). It converts re-engineers DVD footage back to whatever format you want (even uncompressed footage) then you can take it into the edit suite and mess around with it. I'm going to be doing this next week with a show I did for the History Channel early last year ... took almost a year to get a copy of the show/footage. DW Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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