I believe you are correct about monitor refresh rate being a key problem.
I have NEVER seen a computer workstation playback video as smoothly as a dedicated playback device.
At SIGGRAPH two years ago I saw several top-of-the line high-def playback systems that choked and skipped when playing back several minute long image sequences. In this case they were buffering full res Cineon files from disk.
For some reason VCRs, VTRs, laser and magnetic disk video recorders can play back smooth as glass. Digital cinema projects, (which I must confess are fed by some kind of workstation) also look marvelous.
Back in the days of analog, and I would guess still today, all of cameras, recorders, and displays were slaved to a common synch generator, mostly so you could switch between sources without a glitch.
Fields are basically a holdover from the luminance characteristics of CRTs. As CRTs are displaced, fields should be banished. Video should be stored so that the best possible full frames can be recovered. One thing that torques me about consumer DVDs is how they compress the image quality so they can stuff on those 'special extras'
I heard Walter Murch speak, and one thing he misses from film editing is being able to scan through full quality playback at 240fps.
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I believe you are correct about monitor refresh rate being a key problem.
I have NEVER seen a computer workstation playback video as smoothly as a dedicated playback device.
At SIGGRAPH two years ago I saw several top-of-the line high-def playback systems that choked and skipped when playing back several minute long image sequences. In this case they were buffering full res Cineon files from disk.
For some reason VCRs, VTRs, laser and magnetic disk video recorders can play back smooth as glass.
Digital cinema projects, (which I must confess are fed by some kind of workstation) also look marvelous.
Back in the days of analog, and I would guess still today, all of cameras, recorders, and displays were slaved to a common synch generator, mostly so you could switch between sources without a glitch.
Fields are basically a holdover from the luminance characteristics of CRTs. As CRTs are displaced, fields should be banished.
Video should be stored so that the best possible full frames can be recovered. One thing that torques me about consumer DVDs is how they compress the image quality so they can stuff on those 'special extras'
I heard Walter Murch speak, and one thing he misses from film editing is being able to scan through full quality playback at 240fps.
Or would we? http://archives.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/east/01 /19/china.plane.bug/index.html