Workflow HD playback on PS3

So I have a Sony Z7U which shoots HDV on tape & CF cards.
When you shoot on a CF card it records in .m2t format and I can take the card out of the camera & place it into my PS3 & watch the raw video (and it just looks wonderful). W/ the plugin from Sony I'm able to easily transfer video off the CF card into FCP & edit away.
What I'd like to do know is export the finished sequence to be played out on the PS3. Anyone know what the best way to do this w/o losing any picture quality?

A long time ago I gave it a shot, but the only thing I could get working was MPEG4 and I noticed quite some loss in quality. Meanwhile I have an AppleTV and I'm using the PS3 purely for games
Regards,
stefaan

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Hello all,
I am struggling to get smooth output from my FCE, interlace is thwarting me at every turn. I can produce a smooth DVD but at low quality with a work around as described at end of post, but really want smooth HD file, here is my workflow an plight
Have captured footage with Panasonic HDC-SD5 AVCHD camcorder in 1920 x 1080i50, imported into FCE with the newer 1920x1080 apple intermediate codec at 25fps
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How do I get all my nice HD footage out of FCE and onto Apple TV, PS3 or even iDVD in quality and without interlace making it jumpy or jaggy.
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Cheers
Andy.

Wow thanks for quick reply. Apologies I didn't give full info.
I am viewing DVD on TV - well a plasma being played via DVD on PS3.
BUT, DVPRO50 is the only output that shows a "smooth" movie, if I playback on the canvas at 50% the interlace line are gone due to the scaling BUT the movie plays jumpy, so the DVPRo50 method is the only way I can get a smooth pan for example, every other method just gives a jumpy playback on DVD.
iDVD is set to Production quality, when I do a QT movie direct to iDVD without the DVPRO50, the quality is better but the movie is jumpy.
The movie is also 47 minutes long - it's quite big, file produced is about 19GB.
Also I understand about getting HD quality and BlueRay disk etc, but I would expect to get DVD quality from iDVD, doing the DVPRO50 conversion makes it pretty bad. but smooth!
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My Sony HC-3 HD camcorder has just failed. I've had it just over 3 years.
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Almost feels as though something isn't clicking/catching when you push the tape in.
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I've sent camcorder to local Sony repair center and am awaiting outcome.
Now my questions are:
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2 - is 1080i HDV (1440x1080 res) as captured by the Sony HC3 a cross-vendor format or Sony specific - (if 1 is impossible) could I if needed say pick up a Canon HDV camcorder and use that to import my video?
3 - are we to assume now that DV/HDV is dead as a consumer format despite it's better image quality compared to hard drive/memory card video codecs.
Hopefully Sony will repair my camcorder for a fixed rate charge - if they can't or won't what are my options for importing the video I've got on tape?
There are bound to be companies who'll do this for a fee if worst comes to worst, but I feel a bit annoyed with Sony for dropping support for the format after buying an expensive camcorder only a few years ago.
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Yes, my fault for not importing the tapes immediately after shooting, but I'd assumed that I would be able to import the data well into the future evene if it meant a new device.
AC

Jeremy Hansen wrote:
HDV is not dead!!! Heavens, the pros laugh at AVCHD and hard drive based cameras. When you shoot on HDV tape, you have a backup.
Sony do still manufacture HDV pro camcorders of course - it's the early adopter consumer they've left in the lurch.
One of my original reasons for using tape was this automatic backup - silly of me not to routinely import tapes to Mac of course.
To answer your questions:
1. No, you can't read it with an SD camera. you are correct that it is just 12GB of data, but no software really knows how to go back and forth, so to speak. In case you care, there was an app years ago (I forget which) that could use a Dv camera as a 12GB backup drive. But practically, no.
Shame really seeing as it's just data - I'd used the Firewire SDK kit DVHSCap app to pull off 12-13GB m2ts files in the past which I felt would be ok for computer archival, unedited direct playback on PS3 and fairly quick to convert to AIC as needed for future editing purposes using a utility.
I did wonder if DVHSCap might be able to pull the data from an SD camcorder, but maybe the tape just would not play.
2. HDV is HDV. If you had problems, pros would advise you to import with the same camera, or at least same brand. But, usually there are no problems. There shouldn't be, but occasionally there are.
I was hoping this was the case, great.
3. Image quality is NOT better with hard drive based camcorders. In fact, most use a higher rate of compression than HDV. What is the advantage? A tape-based camera takes an hour to import and hour. Hard drive cams go faster. Some look great, but there is no advantage over HDV.
Yes, the only advantage of HD/card based camcorders is simpler import faster than real time, and I'd always been concerned with HD camcorders you'd have too many eggs in one basket if the HD failed in between imports to computer.
I own an HC-3, and you have to realize it was an early camera in the high-def market. I don't use it often (except as a secondary) because of its optics.
I've always found it produced pretty acceptable results - constantly amazed that 3-4 year old products get regarded as obsolete by manufacturers who just want you to buy the latest gadget.
Here is my advice:
Get a Canon HDV camera. Use it to import your tapes, and enjoy its superior optics and color quality. Opinion? Yes, but I believe it.
I may consider that if repair fails - any model recommendations that would trounce the Sony?
Cheers
AC

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Wow thanks for quick reply. Apologies I didn't give full info.
I am viewing DVD on TV - well a plasma being played via DVD on PS3.
BUT, DVPRO50 is the only output that shows a "smooth" movie, if I playback on the canvas at 50% the interlace line are gone due to the scaling BUT the movie plays jumpy, so the DVPRo50 method is the only way I can get a smooth pan for example, every other method just gives a jumpy playback on DVD.
iDVD is set to Production quality, when I do a QT movie direct to iDVD without the DVPRO50, the quality is better but the movie is jumpy.
The movie is also 47 minutes long - it's quite big, file produced is about 19GB.
Also I understand about getting HD quality and BlueRay disk etc, but I would expect to get DVD quality from iDVD, doing the DVPRO50 conversion makes it pretty bad. but smooth!
As I said the anooying things is when I exported to MP4 on quicktime at 1080 HD and 18000kbps and 29.97 it also plays smooth for a short bursts of a few seconds (albeit jumping every second to 25 -> 29.97 issues), in 25 fps it's just blurry and jumpy. (playback on PS3)
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just a little update hoping someone could help... today tn the morning I tried to use spotify intensively and the odd thing happened right in front of me! I was listening to a song and at twelve o' clock it begun to stutter as it always do in the afternoon... I really wonder what at 12.00 every day makes my ps3/spotify get crazy!! any opinion si appreciated... thx! P.S. sorry, I forgot to say that the issue appears only with spotify on PS3... on other devices it continues to work normally even after twelve o' clock!

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MediaInfo 0.7.7.58
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Total Audio Streams for this File -> 1
Video Codecs Used -> AVC
Audio Codecs Used -> AC3
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Total Stream BitRate -> 15.5 Mbps
Video Stream # 1
Codec (Human Name) -> AVC
Codec Profile -> [email protected]
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Frame Height -> 1 080 pixels
Frame Rate -> 29.970 fps
Total Frames -> 575
Display Aspect Ratio -> 16/9
Scan Type -> Interlaced
Scan Order -> TFF
Colorimetry -> 4:2:0
Codec Settings (Summary) -> CABAC / 2 Ref Frames
Codec Settings (CABAC) -> Yes
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Video Stream BitRate -> 14.6 Mbps
Bit Depth -> 24 bits
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Key Frames All (I don't understand Key Frames)
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Total Audio Streams for this File -> 1
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Total Audio Streams for this File -> 1
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Scan Type -> Progressive
Colorimetry -> 4:2:0
Codec Settings (Summary) -> 2 Ref Frames
QF (like Gordian Knot) -> 0.289
Codec Settings (CABAC) -> No
Video Stream Length -> 19s 319ms
Video Stream BitRate -> 7 973 Kbps
Video Stream BitRate Mode -> VBR
Bit Depth -> 24 bits
Video Stream Size -> 18.4 MiB (98%)
Video Stream Language -> English
Date of Original Encoding -> UTC 2008-11-07 02:18:44
Step 4: Export FCE to MP4 for Web Use:
Don't have this sorted out yet, but I reckon I'll use the QT Conversion with h.264, 640x480 or something slightly smaller with Preserve Aspect Ratio/Letterbox/Deinterlace
I know there are a ton of details here. If more is needed, please let me know.
Thanks for the help,
John

OK, I'll bite. I don't understand the point of Step 1 - Use Toast to convert from .M2TS to .MOV.
I could certainly be missing something, but M2TS and MOV are container formats. So you are really doing two things: converting the video/audio from AVC/AAC in an M2TS container to something FCE can edit, namely AIC in an MOV container. I don't understand this step. FCE's log and transfer does this exact same thing (convert AVCHD to AIC), except without the external software. So, why use Toast if FCE already does this? You can also add metadata to the clips as they are imported so you can make heads or tails of them later.
I'm still learning too. So I hope this reads as a question
-Nick
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