super 8
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- violaine
hey,
i have bought a super 8 camera (it's awsome), made a movie and sent it so they would pass the film on to a DVD.
i just got the DVD, it's an .AVI file, but the image is very shitty sometimes & i get this :Do u guys know why this is? is this a compression error or can i fix it?
- svenreed0
whats :
- scarabin0
interlacing
- brandelec0
^
- violaine0
i tried that but it didn't seem to work.
could any one of you explain to me what is interlacing so i understand what i am doing and i do it right?
- nadnerb0
what place did you send it to? this is such a basic thing you ought to get your money back, they either dont know what they're doing or dont give a shit.
- nadnerb0
what place did you send it to? this is such a basic thing you ought to get your money back, they either dont know what they're doing or dont give a shit.
- violaine0
somewhere in france.
so it's NOT normal, and i can't fix it myself?
- nadnerb0
http://www.macupdate.com/info.ph…
if this doesnt work look up deinterlacing. there are a lot of solutions.
- violaine0
k,
trying....
thx
- violaine0
doesn't work...
- vaxorcist0
I've seen super 8 film digitized and it didn't look like this....
It's possible they did it in PAL then transferred that to NTSC and got this...
- xcreonx0
Does it still look like this when played on a tv? or just your computer monitor? You could try re-exporting it from quicktime and set fields to none.
- M_C_P0
things could be compounded further if it was done in france as PAL and converted to NTSC. what TV standard are you trying to get to?
if it was PAL converted to NTSC improperly, no amount of deinterlacing is gonna save that footage. get yer monies back.
- violaine0
ok got it...
although i wanna try exporting from qt one last time.
thx to all
- violaine0
so i called the guys and they said i should have told them i worked on a mac...
can that be the problem, or r they just a bunch of liars????
- quamb0
liars.
mac or pc - there's alway ways to get the right codec or capturing software.
- mydo0
ha ha "should have told them i worked on a mac"
it's a classic, we've fucked up how can we make it look like the clients fault? oh let's blame technology, clients are really stupid and anything to do with computers will totally make it their fault.
- monNom0
Your super 8 films at 24fps, they digitize to 30 fps, in order to get those 24frames to add up to 30, they do what's called a 2:3 pulldown, which adds an extra frame 6 times a second. The extra frame is a merger of two other frames, which is what you're seeing there. In order to keep the motion smooth they merge more than just the two frames. more info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tel…It's an analogue process using mirrors from a time before aftereffects and time-stretching was available. Nowadays you can get your stuff digitized to 24fps, then time-stretch those frames digitally. The time-stretch creates in-between frames pixel to pixel, so quality is much higher.
- stretching also takes an ass load of time and most wouldn't know the difference.monNom