WorkPrinter sample

Post by **studiocarter** » Tue Nov 12, 2002 4:28 pm

Okay, how do you like it?
I use a NTSC hi-8 camera which will make a signal of 640 x 480 and 29.970 fps.. This is used to capture single frames of images into a .avi file. That file may be resized to any sort of image size. The speed may be made into any sort of fps. It comes standard as 15 fps.. 8mm at 16 fps plays a little slow at 15. I speed it up a little. Normal playback on NTSC is 29.970 so each frame shows two times. It is like shooting animation on twos. There are a lot of extra frames to play with.

I want to post a sample here. Give me some directions on MPEG, AVI, etc, size of image and fps.. What can you download? I use ATT cable so anything goes here.

My transfers go onto CD for SVCD playback on the DVD. Size is 480 x 480 at 29.970 fps., MPEG-2 stereo.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Nov 12, 2002 4:36 pm

Well, I can't speak for all of us here still stuck on horse-and-buggy 56K modems, but I'd prefer AVIs or MOVs that were no larger than 10 or 11 megabytes in size.

Anyone else?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Nov 12, 2002 4:37 pm

I forgot to add--15 fps, 320 *240 resolution or smaller. How long are these clips, may I ask?

Post by **studiocarter** » Tue Nov 12, 2002 4:52 pm

That will depend on how compressed they are and which compressor is used.
Which file type can you play? Cinepak, Indeo, MS,
I don't do Div X anymore, but, if I did it would be the old version 3 I think. It is NOT installed and I am lothe to add anything more.
Can you play MPEG files?

Post by **studiocarter** » Tue Nov 12, 2002 5:00 pm

10 seconds. 15 frames a second. 320 x 240. Indeo Video 5. Size is 1.62MB. 150 frames. Silent. 85% or 166 KB/Sec.

That is one way. How much do you want to download? How long would it take?

Post by **studiocarter** » Tue Nov 12, 2002 5:12 pm

that looked blocky so at 100 percent the size goes up:
2.76MB, 283 KB/Sec
320 x 240, 15 fps, Indeo Video 5, Silent,

I might add that this sample was framed up to show sproket holes, frame lines, and the edge of the film. That effects the size. Black borders in frame ups keep the overall size down. It is done so as to get as much of the film frame to show on television as possible. Both the sproket holes and the right edge of the film get cropped out and show full screen images. The top and bottom do show a little band of black. The width is ful screen. The height is full FRAME.
If the capture was made strictly for PC viewing then I'd zoom in on the image more and eliminate the holes at least since they are so white. There IS IMAGE between the holes showing. A mask could be made in Premiere to cover them I suppose.

Well, that is all for now, let me know how much at what rate. The 100 percent sample looks clean and nice. for Indeo that is.

Barry · Post by **Barry** » Tue Nov 12, 2002 5:17 pm

I'm on 56k modem, so anything above 3 or 4 megabytes takes a while. I'd like to see these clips though. MPG files would be pretty universal I should think.

Post by **studiocarter** » Tue Nov 12, 2002 5:35 pm

MPEG-1 became 1.37MB for 10 seconds. It didn't matter if it was made from the source or from IndeoVideo at 85 %. The source one looked better and was the same size, so that is the way to go.
You could get, what, 30 second chunks that way?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Nov 12, 2002 5:37 pm

30 seconds would be good I think.

Post by **studiocarter** » Tue Nov 12, 2002 5:40 pm

4.11MB

Post by **studiocarter** » Tue Nov 12, 2002 6:05 pm

4.11MB, MPEG-1, silent, 320 x 240, from source ati yvu 9,
It took 165 seconds to upload. It is in the upload directory and is named wp01.m1v.

ftp://ftp.filmshooting.com/upload/video/wp01.m1v (File moved. - Andreas)

oops, should have put it into video directory and that's not all, I started a ascii one instead of bin that should be deleted from upload. Sorry, I used my old directions.

It is old Regular 8mm film that had torn sproket holes. Capture in the WorkPrinter was upside down and backwards. It was a little jumpy because of the little pieces sticking out from the torn holes. Premiere reversed and flopped it. Exposure is dark enough to keep detail in the light yellow jacket. When it is viewed on television, brightness and contrast must be adjusted, however, after that is done. the movie looks just the same as the film did. All the colors come up nicely. On a PC more blockiness shows in the darks.
Final output was 480x480 MPEG-2 with stereo for television off DVD for SVCD NTSC.

This sample shows the WorkPrinter quality, framing for TV cutoff, and exposure for light detail retained. And, how not to upload to upload/video.

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