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Right...and the mentioning how she most wants to be remembered as a "loved mother" and how she's said plenty of times "I'm not a party girl" and....
I realize the girl's up for an occasional drink and a night on the town but...she's so much about being the sweetest thing ever...if she likes it or not. That's who she is. She can talk all she wants (and take whatever pictures she likes for her album cover) but her actions indicate otherwise. And it's a good thing.
Thanks for sharing zarut. BigShady capped in High Q as SD on HD. If his aren't here, they're in another thread. I haven't got your links but Shady's was super nice 640x480 AVI and probably ~4000kbps. You should grab his vids and compare.
Edit: Is there a reason random smilies get inserted while posting? Other than some spaz typing by me?
Posted By zarut on 01/27/2008 12:09 AM Well, the Ch1 cap was not compressed because it comes directly from the digital source. That was why it is in MPEG format. By the way, Rachel Ray was not shown in HD, wasn't it?
What I should have said was SD on an HD channel. In other words, the taping was done with a non-HD camera and it was upsized from SD to HD broadcast.
If RR was on a 1080i channel, the SD picture was upsized to about 1440x1080, interlaced.
If RR was on a 720p channel, the SD picture was upsized to about 1000x750, progressive.
DVD format is... 720x480i? I'm pretty sure a Shady 640x480 progressive AVI will look better than 720x480i mpg. (I better check now that I've said that!)
Also, compressed AVIs aren't necessarily worse than source mpgs. 2 cases where they can be better.
With Shady's method (avi.net) and my method of making the AVIs, the colorspace is expanded and bitrate is kept super high. If you notice, MPEG-2 mpgs are often washed out color-wise on PCs compared to the AVIs because they use the TV color range. When we make the AVIs, we expand to the larger PC color range, making colors more vibrant on a PC. And because we use very high bitrates, compression artifacts aren't usually a problem.
Another time when AVIs can be better is when the MPG is from a telecined film source and the AVI is inverse telecined (IVTC) back to near-original film specs. The AOL Sessions IVTC AVIs are an example. The source MPG will show motion artifacts even when deinterlaced, whereas the IVTC AVI will be film-like in smoothness. It's most obvious during camera panning.
Another lengthy media post brought to you by diff and KMF! <- not random smiley
The Ch1 mpg is 720x480 progressive. I don't think anyone broadcasts that out as a digital source, so it was probably reencoded to mpg. You should definitely check out BigShady's AVIs, at least for computer viewing. Clarity and color are excellent. Plus he had the interview and cooking too. Not to be missed! 625MB of goodness.
Live sendspace links of Shady's caps are in CRB's May 19 post here
http://www.katharinefans.com/Forums/tabid/92/view/topic/forumid/26/postid/103527/Default.aspx
In any case, by all means please keep bringing outside links here. We'll never know what is the best unless we look at them all! So thank you again zarut. And of course you too Shady and CRB!
Posted By differentlife on 01/27/2008 1:32 AM
Your lengthy media posts are a sine qua non of the Kat Media forum, diff, that one was actually terse enough that I could follow it, so you might be slipping.
I could expound on quantization matrices... if only I understood them. I'd study up but I'm kept busy looking up words in your posts. I shall call you CRB, Esq.
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