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Re: quality question

email@hidden said:

> their living rooms, and
> if the world comes to that I do not want to be here. Your material should be
> strong enough to withstand minor technical problems. Maybe the material you
> are creating isn't good enough for anything other than quickie proofs,
> weddings and family videos. NO matter how high the quality of the input. The
> combination of DVD SP, and FCP can't be beat. People said the same thing
> about miniDV when it appeared, its not good enough, it's low quality, it's
> not acceptable.... These new technolgies allow millions of new people to
> express themselves like never before, so I'm all for for it.... Get a G4,
> FCP, and DVD SP and create...... So other filmmakers take heed, the Apple
> encoder gets the job done fine.

for you, it works, and that's fine. For us, with the type of material we
produce, which is a mid-end (16 x 9, shot on D-9, lots of variation in types
of material, including lots of motion, plus stills from very old archival
material, and motion graphics, well, it isn't good enough. motion artifacts,
the odd interlace issue with 720 x 486 material, gamma shifts, etc. These
things ARE NOT acceptable to a professional. We color correct our work
carefully for a reason. I don't like losing all of that work. And I can't
ship DVDs to clients if those discs have artifacts. The Apple encoder is
okay for low-end DV acquired material. It's not good enough for what we
produce.

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