Content problem

[Mr_P]

Having a little trouble with some content - its about 32M, so cant post it - but it?s a simple movie file - it plays ok in Quicktime, but in catalyst it gets sliced diagonally and the left and right side is swapped and mirrored along the diagonal - hard to explain - will add a snapshot asap - few shorts of the working clip atached... Any clues?

S


Info attached:
Movie
369x429pix
5.27 sec

Format:
720x576
millions of colours
DV-PAL

Size
369x429 normal
20,817Kb

[samsc]

how was the movie created?

[samsc]

can you put the file somewhere i can download it from?

I need to see the original

my bulletin board wont accept something big.

[samsc]

Info attached:
Movie
369x429pix
5.27 sec

Format:
720x576
millions of colours
DV-PAL

Size
369x429 normal
20,817Kb

Aha i think i see something from this.

you cant create a dv movie at 369x429...
they are always internally 720x576 or 720x486
quicktime cheats. i ignore this cheat.

if you actually need a 369x429 movie then you need to use photojpeg ( 50-60% )
otherwise create the dv movie at overall size of 720x576 and have a black outline.

beware also that 720x576 - has NON-square pixels - but i ignore this too, as my aspect ratio channel allows you to alter this live.

[Mr_P]

Actually, yes - I figured this out too by reading another thread about best formats....

http://chaldee1.gotadsl.co.uk/~richa...hlight=formats

PhotoJpeg or Mjpeg would solve it I think - as the former will recognise 'odd' resolutions.

However, I think our best idea will be to use DV-Pal with a black border in the content - or we might run in to other issues of xfading between different formats - and I;ve always seen dodgy 'steppy' fades in that scenario

I've put the original content on:

http://www.snpproductions.plus.com/Downloads/

but beware - it is 20MB...

cheers

S

[samsc]

you are much much better off creating the smaller size movie using photojpeg, as photojpeg performance is much better than dv with smaller size files.
and photojpeg is also a much better codec at smaller sizes because it has better colour resolution than dv.

almost all fading issues come from the lighting consoles - not having outputting dmx smoothly enough or regularily enough.
content has nothing to do with this.

[Spam Butterfly]

I would always use Photo-Jpeg. It is the ultimate Media Server codec - it has no fields and gives better colour than DV.

Hugh

[samsc]

dv performance is better at standard definition sizes.