Competitive Comparison of an HD Film Transfer
HomeDVD has gone ahead again to check out the competition on the quality of an HD film transfer for small gauge movie film, with some surprisingly good results. A standard 3″ reel of color 8mm film was assembled that exhibited a range of transfer system challenges. The film was old and was quite grainy [...]
Certain Truths About Amateur Film
How poor is small gauge film –Really!! The fact is that that old 8mm and Super 8 mm film (and yes even some 16mm) is not all that it is cracked up to be in terms of its supposedly inherent super properties. There is lots of talk in the forums, other discussion groups and blogs [...]
CUDA based cards now have another home in CS5
In my search for a list of CUDA based NVidia video cards that will support Adobe Premiere CS5, I came across this web site www.Studio1productions.com. It has an article that has the steps to unlock Premiere CS5 so that more than the few currently Adobe supported CUDA cards can be used to crunch video data [...]
NTSC and PAL in Hi-Def!! I don’t think so
NTSC or PAL Operation in High Definition Video Lets start off by saying there is no such thing as NTSC or PAL in the High Definition video world. Just scan rate differences. NTSC and PAL standards are color methods and scan/refresh rates that have their origin in the analog domain. Their corollary does however have [...]
Frame Blending Problem in Premiere CS4
Frame blending can be forced off in render. When I do my Premiere setups prior to doing an edit on my HD video files, one of the first things I do is to turn off the ‘blend frames‘ option in the Clip menu. It is on by default. A simple test on the clip in [...]
Creating Proxy Files in Adobe Premiere CS3 CS4 and CS5
Offline Proxy editing for High Definition Video When working with uncompressed YUV video files like we do at HomeDVD, we use a technique called proxy editing. Why do this? Uncompressed HD video files by nature are large and as such present a data handling problem on most computer platforms particularly when editing them. Did I [...]
Competitive comparsion of an SD film transfer
The wide range of film telecine methods, equipment, internal workflows and post production practices have a direct impact on the visual outcome of a telecined home movie film. Lets take a look at the differences. “If I were to transfer my once in a lifetime films to DVD, choosing a film transfer vendor could be [...]
LCD Screen Refresh Rates – More snake oil!!
LCD frame refresh rates get bumped up. Why?? What’s with all the hype regarding those higher refresh rates for LCD screens that are being pumped up beyond 60 Hz these days as the answer to eliminating those pesky video smears or blurs that occur in scenes that have high intra frame to frame motion? Rates [...]
