Film – Mental Note: Change This Title

2008-10-17 by crccheck 0 comments

Working with 10bit 4:2:2 Quicktimes

So I finally got around to doing some compression tests. My source was a 1280×720 23.98fps 10bit 4:2:2 “uncompressed” quicktime. That is a typical file that comes across my desk. I wanted to see what compression I should set my Final Cut Pro timeline to. At first, I opened the quicktime in Quicktime Player and…

2008-05-06 by crccheck 0 comments

My new DVD to Quicktime workflow

So I get asked to make reference samples off of DVD based material fairly often. Here’s my current quality emphasis workflow: Rip relevant portion of DVD with DVD Decrypter Create DGIndex project, decompress AC3 to PCM Import DGIndex project to Avisynth AudioDub() the decompressed PCM WAV into the Avisynth project. Add any decomb/deinterlace/resize filters as…