What project settings to choose and how to prepare the files in advance?
I have an old film from a holiday, part shot with a Sony 1920x1080x50i and part shot with a Kodak Zx1 1280x720x59.94
There is dialogue in both films. I know it won’t be perfect but what common settings should I choose?
I have Topaz Video AI and I would like to use it to improve the quality a bit (e.g. upscale to Full HD) when preparing files, etc.
The biggest problem I have is what frame rate to choose, the best thing for me is to deinterlace the Sony and do the whole project at 50 fps.
Here are the technical details
General
Complete name : Z:\02 Video\2009\2009.08.23 Wakacja Włochy San Giminganno Rzym Capri\D2 San Gimniano\20090823 061010 KODAK Zx1 1280x720 59.94.MOV
Format : MPEG-4
Format profile : QuickTime
Codec ID : qt 0000.00 (qt )
File size : 22.9 MiB
Duration : 15 s 165 ms
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 12.7 Mb/s
Frame rate : 59.940 FPS
Movie_More : KODAK Zx1 Pocket Video Camera
Encoded date : 2009-08-23 06:10:10 UTC
Tagged date : 2009-08-23 06:10:10 UTC
Origin : Digital Camera
Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : Main@L4
Format settings : CABAC / 4 Ref Frames
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, Reference frames : 4 frames
Format settings, GOP : M=3, N=15
Codec ID : avc1
Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video Coding
Duration : 15 s 165 ms
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 12.4 Mb/s
Maximum bit rate : 13.8 Mb/s
Width : 1 280 pixels
Clean aperture width : 1 280 pixels
Height : 720 pixels
Clean aperture height : 720 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Variable
Frame rate : 59.940 (60000/1001) FPS
Minimum frame rate : 59.920 FPS
Maximum frame rate : 59.960 FPS
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.224
Stream size : 22.4 MiB (98%)
Title : Ambarella AVC / Ambarella AVC
Language : English
Encoded date : 2009-08-23 06:10:10 UTC
Tagged date : 2009-08-23 06:10:10 UTC
Codec configuration box : avcC
Audio
ID : 2
Format : AAC LC
Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec Low Complexity
Codec ID : mp4a-40-2
Duration : 14 s 869 ms
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 128 kb/s
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel layout : L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz
Frame rate : 46.875 FPS (1024 SPF)
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 232 KiB (1%)
Title : Ambarella AAC / Ambarella AAC
Language : English
Encoded date : 2009-08-23 06:10:10 UTC
Tagged date : 2009-08-23 06:10:10 UTC
General
ID : 0 (0x0)
Complete name : Z:\02 Video\2009\2009.08.23 Wakacja Włochy San Giminganno Rzym Capri\D2 San Gimniano\20090823 140215 Sony 1920x1080 25.000.MTS
Format : BDAV
Format/Info : Blu-ray Video
File size : 27.3 MiB
Duration : 13 s 478 ms
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 17.0 Mb/s
Maximum Overall bit rate : 18.0 Mb/s
Frame rate : 25.000 FPS
Recorded date : 2009-08-23 14:02:15+02:00
Writing application : Sony
Video
ID : 4113 (0x1011)
Menu ID : 1 (0x1)
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L4
Format settings : CABAC / 2 Ref Frames
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, Reference frames : 2 frames
Format settings, GOP : M=2, N=13
Codec ID : 27
Duration : 13 s 440 ms
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 16.0 Mb/s
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate : 25.000 FPS
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Interlaced
Scan type, store method : Separated fields
Scan order : Top Field First
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.309
Stream size : 25.4 MiB (93%)
IrisFNumber : 4.000000
Audio
ID : 4352 (0x1100)
Menu ID : 1 (0x1)
Format : AC-3
Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
Commercial name : Dolby Digital
Codec ID : 129
Duration : 13 s 536 ms
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 448 kb/s
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel layout : L R C LFE Ls Rs
Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz
Frame rate : 31.250 FPS (1536 SPF)
Compression mode : Lossy
Delay relative to video : -80 ms
Stream size : 740 KiB (3%)
Service kind : Complete Main
Text
ID : 4608 (0x1200)
Menu ID : 1 (0x1)
Format : PGS
Codec ID : 144
Duration : 12 s 935 ms
Delay relative to video : -80 ms
