Combining CG and DV. Help with the shimmer effect?
Hi all,
We produce a fair amount of computer animation (prediminany for the real estate business... aka lots of buildings with straight lines). The short videos we are putting together often combine DV footage with computer animation. We often move the "camera" in Final Cut across still images of buildings, and a bit of anti-aliasing seems to address the jaggies that come from having tons of lines move on angles.
However, our main problem is with the actual computer animation. When playing back the DVDs on, say, an LCD television, the DV footage looks great but the computer animation looks aliased and crunchy, especially on shots that rotate around a building where there are a ton of converging lines.
My thoughts are this: should I be dealing with this with the field selection? I am assuming my DV footage likes to live in lower-field land, but that my CG is progressive. Can I do something to syncrhonize the two? Could it be that when I create my DVD, and select "Lower" or "Progressive" as the fields that I am killing the quality of one or the other?
I'm not sure if it related, but the DVDs also look like unusable garbage (jagged, crunchy) when I test play them on my computer (23" LCD @ 1920). I know the DVD is scaling to fit the screen, but is there any way to step up the results so they look great on TV and a computer?
Looking for some guidance from the Compressor gods. Lots of queries here, but overall I am just trying to understand if there is a protocol for editing together CG and DV to a DVD so that it looks fantastic.
Thanks all!
Ben
Hi Jerry & Thanks. I always appreciate your comments.
I set the HDV camera to send via log & capture HDV. It has a feature to send it via HD, but that feature wasn't enabled. It seems like when I checked before it was reading as 1080i. When I last checked it read 720. So not sure, but will recheck later tonight and see what happens with a fresh log & capture session.
I claim utter plebe status... so bear with me...
My take is that I shoot in HDV because the resolution is tighter and better in lower light conditions. If I downconvert, aren't I dumbing down the video that I shot in HDV to "match" the DV?
I thought that it would be interesting, in a disparate sense, to use both the HDV and the DV footage together. The differences are of interest to me in a comparative way.
That said, my interpretation of using DVDSP4 was that with DV, field dominance is set to "lower", and HDV it is set to "higher".
And I was also assuming that DV = 4:3 and HDV = 16:9. Which seemed like another bump in the road...
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