You are browsing the archive for 2005 August.

Avatar of Josh Mellicker

by Josh Mellicker

Location Sound (the secret to making your project "look" great)

Aug 3, 2005 at 11:27 am in location sound by Josh Mellicker · 5 Comments »

With all of the attention and time that’s spent on shooting great footage, recording quality sound is often overlooked. A questionable visual shot here or there in your finished project will likely be unnoticed and just merge into the flow of the story- IF you have an excellent soundtrack that holds the edit together and makes great shots and average shots all flow together into a flawless final masterpiece. That is the great big Hollywood secret to moviemaking.

But a section,  [read more →]

by

Why is motion in my DVDs so "jittery" and "stroby"?

at 4:07 am in DVD by · 6 Comments »

This seems like a popular question lately, here is a likely culprit:

In Compressor 2.0, all Apple’s supplied presets seem to have Field Dominance set to "Top First" (aka "Upper Field First"), as you can see here. I went through a few and they were all set this way.

Since DV camcorders capture video lower field first, FCP capture presets and sequence presets are lower field first, as they should be, so interlaced fields proceed in order. However, when encoding video  [read more →]