As far as I can tell, if you are providing files to be shown at a
festival or event, the only chance you have of getting an image on
screen with the same basic grey scale you saw at home, without motion
artifacts, and without random failures, is to provide a DCP file.
I know it's ugly, but it's
thanks loads for the tips folks!
the H264 playback issue makes sense
i did some test exports to DV-DVCPRO-NTSC in the meantime (following another
friend's advice), progressive with deinterlacing
they played back aok on the mac, in quicktime, with no interlacing
I'll give H264 a lash as well
Same as source means that your footage is encoded with the same
codec as your original footage, or perhaps the intermediate editing
codec you've chosen in your timeline/sequence.
H.264 is actually your best option for festivals. The contrast issue
is a bug in some versions of Quicktime and
I'm not an Avid expert, but I know they typically use proprietary codecs. What
container were they in? AVI?
If QT can't play the files, that could either be an issue with the codec per
se, or your Mac not being equipped with the extra widgets needed to handle the
headers of PC-based
hey folks
tested some mov files today (exported 'same as source' from avid 3.0 on a pc)
on a mac, quicktime wouldn't open them vlc played them back deinterlaced (
with a green line at the top, in one case)
any ideas what's up?
(cue bad jokes about 'mov'ing targets or 'mov'ing goalposts ...)
