MSP-12 Walked myself into corner...Please Help?

Stymied wrote on 9/28/2013, 1:42 AM

Hi, hoping someone has some time to guide me through a few things I've just gotten stuck on.

Background:

I'm a newbie, self taught, trying to edit a band video.

Original footage not available. Shot a few years ago at 720 x 480 Was told it was a combination of 30p and 24p fps and telecined. A friend converted that FCP footage into what I'm using as my "source" which is H.264 1980 x 1080 30p in .mov container.

1) I had to get "creative" with editing because the "source" footage had color problems with certain sections that were lit with red and just over saturated. I could only get so far with Sony Color Corrector, so I used Pixelan filters. I had to add titles and closing credits. also had to insert new 24 khz audio to replace old 16 khz version.

2) Preview lag is just terrible at this point because of the filters but I don't know what to spend my limited upgrade money on. What would help? CPU or Graphics Card? Are either of these even replaceable in a laptop?

3) Project properties - I need to render to SD and HD and I'm completely confused about interlace/de-interlace settings and whether what I'm seeing on screen is the footage as is, or is it the player? I know there's more to this, just trying to mention my main questions first. My rendered blu-ray shows very noticeable combing/wavy artifacts especially during motion intensive scenes.

4) Would using Cineform help? And if so, which version? If I had a faster CPU or Graphics card, would I even need it?

I am afraid that this might lead to other questions and so I just want to say thank you in advance to anyone who's willing to help out.

I'm really just hoping for someone patient to guide me and I'm willing to give up a few pennies (I'll buy you pizza or beer or something) donate to your cause, or whatever the proper procedure is for expression of appreciation. If this is not allowed, I apologize and will gladly just offer my profuse thanks.


Best,

G

Comments

Steve Grisetti wrote on 9/28/2013, 9:07 AM
You've got a bunch of possible things going on there, G. Not the least of which is that your friend converted standard definition video to high-def MOV video, for reasons I can't figured out. Is there a chance you can get to the original footage? The conversation was unnecessary and quite possibly damaging to your original files.

This conversion could be contributing to your preview lag. But in order to say for sure what's causing it, we need to know a few things:

1) What processor do you have and how much RAM? What operating system are you using?

2) This is very important: What are your Video Project Properties for your Movie Studio project?
Stymied wrote on 9/28/2013, 11:20 AM

Hi Steve,

Thanks so much for spending some of your weekend on this.

Well, the original footage is in Final Cut Pro. I unfortunately cannot afford to switch to MAC OS. Ideally, someone would have a MAC and be nice enough to transcode it for me here in the mid-west. But yeah....wishful thinking. I mean, again, I am willing to pay someone to help but I don't want to insult a professional by asking if they would do this for a few bucks...

So, I have to rely on the kindness of y'all here.


Here is my system info:

OS Name Microsoft Windows 7 Professional
Version 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 Build 7601
Other OS Description Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name THINKER
System Manufacturer LENOVO
System Model 23442HU
System Type x64-based PC
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3320M CPU @ 2.60GHz, 2601 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date LENOVO G1ET94WW (2.54 ), 4/22/2013
SMBIOS Version 2.7
Windows Directory C:\Windows
System Directory C:\Windows\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.1.7601.17514"
User Name Thinker
Time Zone Pacific Daylight Time
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 16.0 GB
Total Physical Memory 15.7 GB
Available Physical Memory 11.4 GB
Total Virtual Memory 31.4 GB
Available Virtual Memory 26.8 GB
Page File Space 15.7 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys

Project properties:

1920 x 1080 29.97 fps

Field order: none (progressive)

Pixel aspect ratio: 1,000 square

Frame rate: 29.97 NTSC

Stereo 3d mode: off

Full rendering resolution : best

Deinterlace method : none

Adjust source media to better match project settings: off


Please let me know what else you might need.

Thanks,

G