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Not registered? Click HERE to register now Re: P2 Log and Transfer - 11 years agoYes, it was Pa*tube. I had no idea the world I was wading into when I went searching for a converter. Sordid.by Benjamin Meyer - Café LA Re: P2 Log and Transfer - 11 years agoI actually can't seem to state the brand of the one I downloaded because LAFCPUG censors it. I have switched to Clipwrap, and it is working great. Problem solved!by Benjamin Meyer - Café LA Re: P2 Log and Transfer - 11 years agoAlso I just realized it is stripping my timecode. Will Clipwrap do that?by Benjamin Meyer - Café LA Re: P2 Log and Transfer - 11 years agoI bought MTS/M2TS converter, and that seems to be working fine, although the clips come in "not optimized" for FCP. And also, they are straight 24 fps rather than 23.98, and they are 32-bit Floating point, rather than 16. Is this going to cause me trouble down the road? Would I be better off using Clipwrap? Thanks!by Benjamin Meyer - Café LA P2 Log and Transfer - 11 years agoHi, all I know I have addressed this issue in the past, but it has been a while, and I've been in Avid world, and now I can't remember what to do. I just got back to LA from Chicago, with a hard drive full of transferred P2 cards (shot on Panasonic AF100), which I am now attempting to L&T into FCP 7. On some of the camera rolls, I am getting the old " contains unsupported mediaby Benjamin Meyer - Café LA Re: No Multicam makes X a no go for me. - 12 years agoThis is egregious. I guess Apple has given up on television editors. Oh well! Avid it is!by Benjamin Meyer - Café LA - X Re: interlacing problem - 13 years agoI just realized that adding a de-interlace filter fixes the problem.by Benjamin Meyer - Café LA Re: interlacing problem - 13 years agoA capital idea! Here it is: Thanks!by Benjamin Meyer - Café LA Re: interlacing problem - 13 years agoIt really doesn't come across on YouTube. But, no, it is not horrific. It looks like what happens when there's a conflict between a clip's interlacing setting, and the interlacing setting of a sequence. It's clearly a mistake, and I have no idea if the network's QC will pick up on it. Regardless, it's something that ought to be fixable. But, to the casual observer, it may just look like uglyby Benjamin Meyer - Café LA Re: interlacing problem - 13 years agoIt's pretty hard to see in that video. If you look at his hand waving around, you can pick it out, but maybe only if you know what you are looking for.by Benjamin Meyer - Café LA Re: interlacing problem - 13 years agoSure, I can export a few frames. Here's an interesting issue: I put the broadcast legalizer on the image, to see if just constraining the luma and chroma would help. When I have "Show Excess Luma" on in the Canvas, the problem goes away. When I turn it back off, the problem comes back. I'l export a few frames and post them. If I can figure out how. Thanks!by Benjamin Meyer - Café LA Re: interlacing problem - 13 years agoHm. It is bright yellow. I asked them not to use red, because I know that causes trouble in SD broadcasts. I've never seen this kind of trouble. But, I'll try correcting it, and see if that makes the problem go away. Thanks!by Benjamin Meyer - Café LA Re: interlacing problem - 13 years agoHm, that's an interesting question. They are standing in front of a very saturated curtain (white curtain, illuminated by stage gels). But, my colors don't seem off the chart in the vectorscope. My blacks are a little deep, touching down at -10 IRE. Do you think this would affect the interlacing?by Benjamin Meyer - Café LA Re: interlacing problem - 13 years agoTo add to the weirdness: The problematic camera recorded two clips. On the first clip, the problem does not exist. On the second clip, it does. So, it's not even that camera. It's that particular clip from that camera.by Benjamin Meyer - Café LA Re: interlacing problem - 13 years agoCompressor does seem to fix the problem. If I ship a whole sequence to Compressor, will it go to my source files on the graphics, and convert them from their HD format? Or, will it use the render files that are in the sequence?by Benjamin Meyer - Café LA Re: interlacing problem - 13 years agoI realize that I've been calling the Aja Ki Pro the Aja Aki Pro. Correction.by Benjamin Meyer - Café LA Re: interlacing problem - 13 years agoYes, I agree that it is a strange delivery format. I have been trying, from before production, to try to get the producers to contact the network and ask if there is any flexibility on that. They haven't followed through. All I can say is that they gave us very specific file delivery specs, and those were them. I don't have a Kona card in this system-- it's not something the producers feltby Benjamin Meyer - Café LA interlacing problem - 13 years agoHi, all I posted about this situation earlier this week, and got some good feedback. But, now I've encountered a novel problem, and I think it may just be unsolvable, but I thought I would see if any of the wizards here have a solution. I'm having that problem that usually results from a conflict in field dominance between a clip and a sequence. When something moves in the frame, the inteby Benjamin Meyer - Café LA Re: AJA Ki Pro - 13 years agoYeah, I know, it's going to look like crap. It's a real shame. It was the A/V team that came with the hotel where the event was held. They clearly misrepresented their equipment. I don't think they were being deceptive. I just think they don't do a lot of work intended for broadcast. They principally use their cameras to project closeups of the speaker at the podium onto big screens. I gueby Benjamin Meyer - Café LA AJA Ki Pro - 13 years agoHello helpful folk, I am cutting a show this week from a live event that was recorded last night. The show used these nifty AJA Ki Pro decks, which record to these sort of 80's throwback designed AJA drives. Looks like something you might have plugged into your TRS-80 to save your BASIC programs. But, design aesthetics is not the issue. My issue relates to upconverting. So, the great thby Benjamin Meyer - Café LA Re: interlacing issue - 13 years agoNo Shift Fields filter present. And, for that matter, adding the filter doesn't seem to change the issue at all. I also get interlacing issues on all of my pushes and wipes. I've always gotten those, and just taken them for granted, but now I am wondering if it is related.by Benjamin Meyer - Motion interlacing issue - 13 years agoOkay, here's another question. I am finding that when I lay a Motion project file into the sequence, I get bad interlacing when objects move in the frame, whereas when I export out of Motion, and bring the "baked" file into FCP, I don't. This is strange to me, because whereas my Motion project is set to lower-field dominance and the same NTSC-DV resolution as my FCP sequence, my bakedby Benjamin Meyer - Motion Re: audio develops stutters in sequence - 13 years agoYes, I also convert MP3s to AIFF. I do occasionally work with WAV files. I'll try turning off all my audio render settings, and see if that helps.by Benjamin Meyer - Café LA audio develops stutters in sequence - 13 years agoHello, I've had the same problem on a few different systems, using versions of Final Cut Pro over the last few years. I had hoped that maybe it was a FCP 6 issue that would go away with FCP 7. But, it just cropped up, again. This has happened to me using both WAV files and AIFF files. I'll get pretty far along editing a sequence. I'll be playing it back, and have a place where the audby Benjamin Meyer - Café LA Re: ProRes 4444 alpha in Motion - 13 years agoYes, I had this problem. No clever solutions. I ended up just using the Motion project file, and rendering in FCP. I haven't finished yet, though, and when I do I'll hope I can make the export work on second try.by Benjamin Meyer - Motion Re: sphere filter in 3D - 13 years agoYes, I am in "best." Plus, I am rendering it in FCP, and I wouldn't think the problem would carry over, if it were a Quality issue. It is possible that my camera is not far away enough, as Francois asked. This was sort of my first attempt to use cameras, and it may be that I don't understand how they work, and that I changed some parameter in this animation that I didn't change inby Benjamin Meyer - Motion Re: sphere filter in 3D - 13 years agoWhat's weird about this is that other places that I did the same thing worked great. No resolution loss. Any ideas what I am missing?by Benjamin Meyer - Motion Re: sphere filter in 3D - 13 years agoOh, and if I "flatten" the 3D layer, the images get sharp again, but they don't rotate when I change the X position.by Benjamin Meyer - Motion sphere filter in 3D - 13 years agoHi, One more question! This is a corporate client, and I have created a "sphere of logos" for one part of the video. Basically, I created a 3D group, and put a Sphere filter on a collage of images. Works great. I can rotate the sphere by changing the X position. But, all of the images get really pixelated. In 2D, the images are sharp, with plenty of resolution. But, when Iby Benjamin Meyer - Motion |
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