<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear Aliyah et al.,<DIV> I just now updated the web page at talkbank.org/dv/compression.html to include a bit more information</DIV><DIV>on settings. I also put up a newer version of the settings file. It appears that I had the wrong one there for the last</DIV><DIV>couple of months. Also, on a suggestion from some folks at Lund, we are now using deinterlace blending to improve</DIV><DIV>the image a bit. The complete list of settings is rather long, but here it is in rather unreadable format:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">We are using</SPAN></FONT><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> QuickTime .mov format compressed with Sorenson 3 with 2-pass VBR in a 320 x 240 frame with 30 keyframes and blended deinterlacing. Our cleaner settings file is called SV3VBR-VHS1 and it is </SPAN></FONT><A href="http://www.talkbank.org/dv/Cleaner-QT-NTSC-add.zip"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000F0">here</FONT></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">. You should add this file to the folder in Cleaner settings for QuickTime/NTSC. In greater detail, the settings include these options: Output: QuickTime (.mov), Flatten/ cross-platform/ fast-start, Compress movie headers. Tracks: Process video (display high quality), Process audio, Process MPEG. Image: Numeric crop, Image size 320x240, Deinterlace (blend), Noise reduce. Adjust: Brightness 10. Encode: Sorenson Video 3 Compressor, Millions of colors, Spatial 95%, 30 fpts, Keyframe every 150, 983.0 kbits/s video. Audio: IMA 4:1, 352.8 kbits/s, 16-bit stereo samples at 44.100 kHz. If you are coming from VHS and have noise at the bottom of the screen, you need numeric cropping. If you don't see a distorted image at the bottom of the screen, you can turn off numeric cropping.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"></SPAN></FONT>--Brian<DIV> </DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>