Question on video quality

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Question on video quality

Captured a horse drawn carriage ride for a client after their wedding. Camcorder settings say I used HD 60i to record the footage. Upon importing to FCPX, editing and exporting to DVD, some footage with trees and background looks blurry, has waves in it and looks partially distorted. Exported a portion of this footage to Vimeo and it looks perfectly fine.

Is the distortion due to HD quality video to SD on DVD or am I missing something else?

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iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)

Posted on May 4, 2016 4:33 PM

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Russ H

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May 4, 2016 5:06 PM in response to Parm4u

Interlaced footage will typically not display well on a computer. How does it look played out from a DVD player to a TV?

Russ

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Parm4u Author

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May 4, 2016 5:19 PM in response to Russ H

It actually looks perfect on computer on Vimeo or through working on it in FCPX. It's when the transfer to DVD occurs. It looks blurry on TV through the DVD. The carriage beside the pond has the trees blurred or appearing to flash at times while other times there is slight to no blur with the carriage in the field or stopped.

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Tom Wolsky

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May 4, 2016 5:35 PM in response to Parm4u

VVimeo is deinterlaced and in HD. Sounds going to look better than anything on a DVD, especially if viewed on a large screen TV. SD really looks awful these days. Get rid of DVD ASAP.

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Russ H

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May 4, 2016 5:30 PM in response to Parm4u

Just to add to Tom's comments, there are very few occasions these days where shooting interlaced is the better choice – assuming there is a choice, of course.

Russ

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Parm4u Author

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May 4, 2016 5:40 PM in response to Tom Wolsky

Thank you, Tom. Do you have any resources I could utilize to make a decision other than DVD? I have looked into Blu-rays and not found anything to move forward with. I know Apple's desire for consumers is shifting to streaming, etc. I just don't know good places to research to make a decision on this. I still have iDVD and never upgraded to El Capitan due to not knowing options to consider. Sorry if I babbled a little.

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Tom Wolsky

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May 4, 2016 5:48 PM in response to Parm4u

I Know a lot of event producers are moving to delivering online or on jump drives.

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