24PA squeeze clip captured NTSC/DV in NTSC anamorphic timeline

I shot 24PA( squeeze)F6 for a project but opened it and rendered my greenscreen using reg NTSC not anamorphic which produced black bars and when I try to upscale to fit widescreen it looks horrible, but looks great in letterbox mode...how can I get it back to squeeze w/o affecting quality.and everytime I drop into Anamorphic timeline I have to render.

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hi
i want to capture ntsc videos. i'm playing back on a panasonic multisystem vhs nv-hs820 going into a acapus advc-110 and then into imovie.
i've tried every imaginable set up in imovie, and everyout different output from the panasonic and switched every switch on the advc but i can't get the movies to import in color.
i have a decent black and white picture but no color.
any ideas on what i could be doing wrong or how to solve the issue?
thx, sharkboy13

Your analogue-to-digital converter can't get a grip on the colour signal, which sits on a frequency which it can't decode.
It's the advc device, not iMovie, which is the problem (..although your TV may be able to display the colour info, other devices can't necessarily do so).
If you can't get any kind of upgrade to the device (..probably not available..) then you may have to find another way to do it.
There was a similar question about this a month or two ago, and it was just impossible to get the converter to cope with the colour info.
Sorry!

Does DVDSPro able to convert PAL clip to NTSC by itself ?

I am in PAL country. I wan't to make an NTSC DVD from a PAL clip.
Do I really need to convert this clip to NTSC before I put it in DVD Studio Pro ? Why ? DVD Studio Pro isn't able to do it by itself ?
iDVD apparently can (it's written in the manual)
thanks

PLAN9 (from the outside space??)
Of course !
DVDSP is not a encoding/conversion tool.
Yes, DVDSP is not Compressor. But, when you want to burn your DVD, it encodes mpeg2 files, doesn't he ? Thus, DVDSP can encode files with the help of Quicktime in the background. So if I make it your way, in some ways I use Quicktime twice in a row. Is it really the best way to do ?
You cannot even import PAL assets in NTSC project.
Did you try it ? I am making it at this moment, and it's works.
In all the discussions, people say "first you have to convert your files to NTSC" and "you can even import PAL files in a NTSC project"
Please help me. I don't understand.

When I capture NTSC video the picture 'Rolls'

Hi Everyone,
On the advice of a previous post I have given up on my old Miglia converter and bought a nice Canopus ADVC110.
Using it to capture NTSC footage I get an image in color but the picture rolls constantly (like a vertical hold problem).
The Canopus is set to PAL as the VCR I'm using converts the signal from NTSC to PAL (capturing it with the converter set to NTSC gets a stable picture but in black and white).
FCP is set to capture DV PAL 48khz and 'Non-controlable device'. The timeline is also set to PAL.
I hope this is enough info. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Power Mac Quad G5 Mac OS X (10.4.9)

What kind of equipment would I need for option B?
Sorry, Kojima, I have no experience of actually using real NTSC to PAL standards conversion equipment - but if it doesn't cost an arm and a leg to buy/hire, it's not going to be much good!
You will have to research that yourself (and maybe start a new thread?)
Also I'll need to capture a Japanese NTSC tape soon
will this also be affected by the PAL-60 problem?
(I'm guessing-yes!)
I expect your Japanese tape will have the same issues.
It might be much cheaper to get a true NTSC VHS playback deck (a plain vanilla, domestic quality one from an NTSC country) and capture and edit in NTSC, THEN convert to PAL at the end of the process (with Nattress?)

Freeze up during clip capture with random change of in and out points

Having BIG problems capturing DV footage which began late last Fall. While performing a capture (assigned clips) footage would go down for a few seconds then would freeze (picture only, the audio continued) then after several seconds the picture would "catch up" and continue.
Found a solution here in the FCP forum where I had my firewire drives "ignored" by SPOTLIGHT by listing them in the privacy selection. Worked and moved on.
I have a project now where the problem has come up again. Once again during a clip capture it did what it did before - but now it ignores the assigned in point (audio but no video and almost consistently delaying it by 9 seconds into the capture) then freezes (at the assigned outpoint - sometimes) then continues to play on (audio only) then resumes (again catching up) then stops announcing a SUCCESSFUL CAPTURE. When the clip is selected to preview it plays back from the incorrect in point, freezes, then plays until the catch up - with now the audio out of sync. More craziness because now the log information now has changed: the MEDIA START & END information is not what was inputed so the DURATION TIME is now different and sometimes it adds a MARK OUT point (!?). I rarely use the CAPTURE NOW function but even trying that the footage still freezes up and goes out of sync.
I worked the SPOTLIGHT routine again with no change. Have completely optimized my system drive and external hard drives using DISKWARRIOR 4.1
I accept all the auto software up dates that come through UPDATER and see that I received a updated Quicktime version 7.5 on 13 June 08. I also noticed that I don't have CLASSIC OS 9 supported and seemed to have read here about something about FIREWIRE DRIVERS that maybe missing?
Was thinking of upgrading to 10.5 to see if that helps - but unsure about my FCP version/compatability...
So, here I sit frustrated since I have used FCP (which I LOVE) for quite a few years with great success - this is crazy! OF course, I have a project which deadline is looming!
Any ideas?
Much appreciation..
Here's my computer stats:
G4 Powerbook
OS 10.4.11
FCP 5.0.4
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Sony DSR-11 recorder/player
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So far have done a workaround to digitize my DV elements through iMovie. Not pretty. I string together the selected/import clips (in this case from interviews), assemble them in sequential order on the time line with small breaks of black in between, then export the timeline as DVCPRO/DV-NTSC quicktime file. Take that file into my FCP then segment out the clips on the time line, make each segment an independent clip so that I can name them. Not pretty but it works - miss having the logging data going through FCP log and capture.
Still waiting for any other solution to my situation - thanks!
John

Import a clip captured in i Movie

Is it possible somehow import to FCP a clip captured in i Movie?
I had a problem with time code breaks (which occurred every 1-3 minutes without obvious reason) while capturing in FCP. It takes enormous time to edit all these small pieces... I tried to avoid this using i Movie for capture... but now I see, I can't use the captured file. Or can I?

Not sure if you can build a sequence to match the .dv codec that iMovie uses... you might start there.
OR - use something like QT Pro player to export your video to Quicktime DV/PAL (or NTSC) 48k/16bit.
Then drag those into a normal DV setup for yourself.
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CaptM

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I am about to rebuild a Final Cut Pro 7 project for 16:9. I have resized all stills to 960x540 and the clips (29.97 fps) are ready for importing. I now have to make the choice of either DV-NTSC or DV-NTSC ANAMORPHIC. I have tried a search of the internet but couldn't find out what the difference is and which one of them I should be choosing. Can somebody please advise me? Thank you.
Mitaka (Japan)

Many thanks for the advice. It was much appreciated. Now I have another problem. After reading the PHOTOSHOP TITLES article I am not sure whether I have been wasting the last two days in rescaling my images to 960x540 instead of 720x480. Or do you need the extra for panning and scanning?
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Square pixels in an NTSC DV timeline

I have supplemental footage that is both H.264 and prores (square pixels) that I need to add to an NTSC 601 DV (720x480 anamorphic) timeline . I can resize/distort the images manually but I'm worried about quality loss on the export, what should I convert them to? Or rather shoudl I convert my DV footage to accomodate them?

A few things need to happen here:
a. Your 4x3 picture (the H264 clip) needs to conform to 16x9 picture.
b. Your 16x9 picture needs to conform to anamorphic DV NTSC.
Also, is there any chance that the H264 clip was exported from a source clip with better compression (you're taking a hit just for using H264 instead of Apple ProRes 422, Animation or Photo-JPEG at best). If so, use that instead.
It might be easiest to create a custom 16x9 Sequence with Square pixels at 640x360 with ProRes compression. Add your 640x480 and nudge it up or down if needed. Also, apply the Deinterlace filter if needed. (If it's 480i30, do this. If it's 480p30, skip it).
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I created a photo only slideshow using DV NTSC Anamorphic as my Easy Setup. I then learned that DV50 is a better codec for that. I changed Easy Setup to DV50 NTSC Anamorphic and dragged my DV sequence into the new DV50 sequence. I said "no" when it asked to change sequence setting to match clips. The new sequence looks fine, but I was surprised that I didn't get render bars. It's still 720x480 & 48kHz, so I'm assuming that's why?
1) Am I causing myself any problems by doing this? Losing any quality?
2) Should I also go into Sequence Settings (Cmd 0) & change Render Control to Apple ProRes 422? I know the file will be bigger, but is there any other reason why you would not do that when trying for the best quality?
Thanks.

Hi -
You don't need to change your Easy Set Up.
Make a duplicate of your DV sequence (click on the sequence icon in the browser and control-click on it. From the drop down menu choose duplicate). and then load +the copy+ to the timeline by double clicking on the copy sequence's icon. This will keep you original sequence safe in case something goes wrong.
Click anywhere on the copy sequence timeline and type Command + 0 (zero) to bring up the Sequence Settings. Change the Quicktime Video Settings Compressor to DVCPRO50-NTSC. Click OK and you are done. You will need to re-render.
You don't lose quality - you gain it because DVCPRO50 is a better compression codec.
In answer to you second question, I would just render in the Sequence Codec of DVCPRO50 as the quality gain you will get by rendering in ProRes 422 will, IMHO, depending on your source material, be too subtle to be worth doing. But if you want to do it, go ahead. It will just use a lot more disk space and place a heavier load on your drives to playback the ProRes 422 parts.
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How can I get both a 16:9 p/back and chapter markers when exporting a FCE HD 3.5.1 DV-NTSC Anamorphic project to a QuickTime movie?

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Enter your Chapter Markers.
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I'm trying to figure out a good workflow to go from a PAL letterboxed
QuickTime movie to an NTSC anamorphic DVD. A rather depressing assignment.
Using Compressor, I started with the DVD: 90-minute Best setting.
In the MPEG-2 Video Format section, I selected NTSC, 29.97, 16:9, top first.
Turned on all the frame controls--set to better or fast,
and set Source Inset (Cropping) to 16:9. That works, but there are some
nasty interlacing artifacts.
Am I doing something absurd here?
Would it make more sense to split the workflow:
first deinterlacing, then resizing and changing the frame rate,
followed by the MPEG-2 encoding?
I could split the process up with a New Job with Target Output,
or I could do all the "mastering" in Shake, and just use Compressor
for the MPEG-2 encoding.
Any words of wisdom would be most appreciated.

OK, I figured out a great workflow, and I'd like to share it.
1. Compressor: Setting: DV PAL Anamorphic
a. Encoder: Video Settings: Frame Rate Current, Scan Mode Progressive, Aspect Ratio 16:9
b. Frame Controls: Resize Better, Output Fields Progressive, Deinterlace Better, Adaptive Details Off
c. Geometry: Source Inset: Crop 16:9
2. Cinema Tools: Conform to 23.98
3. Compressor: Setting: DV NTSC Anamorphic
a. Encoder: Video Settings: Frame Rate Current, Scan Mode Progressive, Aspect Ratio 16:9
4. Compressor: Setting: DVD: Best Quality 90 minutes
So, to summarize, I used Frame Controls to do the heavy lifting of resizing and deinterlacing, and avoided the issue of retiming by conforming. Since the footage was progressive, converting to NTSC was easy, and didn't require Frame Controls. DVD looks nice.
And the cool thing about the new Apple Forum Format is that I can answer my own questions!

Captures but won't export Anamorphic

Hi..
I'm using FCP 4.5 in conjunction with a Sony Handycam. I'm shooting in the Cam's 16:9 aspect, and can successfully capture such clips, and edit them in FCP4.5, often in real time, even on a 1.42Ghz Mini!
However, when I export the edited clip using either "Current Settings" or NTSC Anamorphic, the resulting clip is still 720 x 480, not 800 x 450 as it should be!
FCP "knows" that the clip is Anamorphic. I use QT Pro to "fix" the clip back to the proper 16:9 ratio.
Is there something I'm missing here in my workflow which can make FCP just handle it once and be done with it?
thank you!
ray

You are operating under wrong assumptions. There is no such thing as DV 800x450
DV standard is 720x480
DV widescreen is 720x480 anamorphic
The pixel dimensions are the same. The difference is in the Pixel Aspect Ratio
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