Chris Harding
August 15th, 2009, 09:30 PM
Hi Guys
Ok a quick update for those also doing conversions to "easier to edit" formats. I have had lots of suggestions already but I had a trial version of Neo Scene, a purchased copy of Upshift and the MainConcept transcoder is free for Panasonic users.
I took 20 seconds of footage from a paper bark tree as it has a LOT of fine detail in it and did the following:
(1) Created a 1440x1080 HDV M2t clip at 50mps with Upshift
(2) Created a 1440x1080 HDV AVI clip with Cine Form Neo Scene
(3) Created a 720x576 16:9 AVI clip with Main Concept Transcoder
Each clip was then rendered to an SD 16:9 MPEG2 and then the set of 3 were compiled onto a DVD using DVDLab so I could watch it on both computers and TV's (the interlacing was not an issue as the tree never moved!!)
At the casual glance it really is not possible to differentiate between the clips!!! I watched the clips on a 27" TV and two widescreen computer monitors the second at 1680 x 1050 resolution.
As I do weddings the ultimate critic MUST be a woman so my wife checked them carefully! Her comments were that the M2t clip was "shinier" than the other two which were more "dull", so for her the Upshift converted file was "better" Even on a high res monitor it's pretty hard to say which is better!!!!!
Ronald here suggest Cine Form's Neo Scene so I figured that it was worth a try before buying it.
I would have thought that there would have been a marked improvement between rendering from a 1440x1080 source file to 720 x576 and a 720x576 file to 720x576 but it seems that visually you don't have any difference!!! Even doing a RAW avchd clip directly to SD doesn't seem to show any visual improvement although I'm sure technically it is superior!!!
Anyone else tried these routes for editing??
Chris
Ok a quick update for those also doing conversions to "easier to edit" formats. I have had lots of suggestions already but I had a trial version of Neo Scene, a purchased copy of Upshift and the MainConcept transcoder is free for Panasonic users.
I took 20 seconds of footage from a paper bark tree as it has a LOT of fine detail in it and did the following:
(1) Created a 1440x1080 HDV M2t clip at 50mps with Upshift
(2) Created a 1440x1080 HDV AVI clip with Cine Form Neo Scene
(3) Created a 720x576 16:9 AVI clip with Main Concept Transcoder
Each clip was then rendered to an SD 16:9 MPEG2 and then the set of 3 were compiled onto a DVD using DVDLab so I could watch it on both computers and TV's (the interlacing was not an issue as the tree never moved!!)
At the casual glance it really is not possible to differentiate between the clips!!! I watched the clips on a 27" TV and two widescreen computer monitors the second at 1680 x 1050 resolution.
As I do weddings the ultimate critic MUST be a woman so my wife checked them carefully! Her comments were that the M2t clip was "shinier" than the other two which were more "dull", so for her the Upshift converted file was "better" Even on a high res monitor it's pretty hard to say which is better!!!!!
Ronald here suggest Cine Form's Neo Scene so I figured that it was worth a try before buying it.
I would have thought that there would have been a marked improvement between rendering from a 1440x1080 source file to 720 x576 and a 720x576 file to 720x576 but it seems that visually you don't have any difference!!! Even doing a RAW avchd clip directly to SD doesn't seem to show any visual improvement although I'm sure technically it is superior!!!
Anyone else tried these routes for editing??
Chris