Re: [DCP-o-matic] GREETINGS FROM THE ICA IN LONDON

Hi Carl, I hope you’re well. I did email you a while ago regarding encrypted DCPs but I’ve hit a new unrelated wall I’m hoping you can help with. So I’m hoping to rip this crappy 30fps NTSC DVD that’s 1:66:1 “floating” in a 16:9 container. I’ve done all the zoom ups, re-sized and re-edited the subs and my master MOV file is free of deinterlacing errors. I’m very happy with it….well, as happy as you can be from such a crappy source :-/ But here’s the very weird thing. DCP’ing “creates” visible deinterlacing errors?? Ones not present (or atleast visible on the master file) but very pronounced on the DCP. [IMAGE]

I suspect it’s picking up on imperfections in the image?? Never had this with DCP O’Matic before, it usually does the opposite and removes the imperfections?? The obvious suggestion is to re-encode using one of your de-interlacing filters…the trouble is that’s what you’re looking at above, the second pass with the first filter enabled L All it seemed to do was smear the image. Do you have any advice with this? I don’t want to keep doing multiple passes and hit the same issues as sadly the film is feature length with no other masters available L Huge thanks as always. Feel free to add the Institute of Contemporary Arts in the UK to your impressive roster of clients. We’re on the Mall, so you’re (rightly) a stone’s throw away from royalty now and deservedly so J