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Show all posts by userYour basic troubleshooting forum for all things FCP Legacy (FCP 7 and below.) And general discussion on topics that do not fit in the other forums.
Not registered? Click HERE to register now Re: The Great Gamma Problem - 14 years ago<<<You realize the upgrade to Final Cut 7 is only $300, right? >>> Plus the cost of the Intel Macs to run it... <<<have your graphics guys work in gamma 1.8.>>> Our Movie guys already work in oddball gammas and colorspaces. We were thrilled to find any pipeline at all that worked. We got around the 24.00/23.976 thing with the Targa Sequences. The maby Kozikowski - Café LA Re: The Great Gamma Problem - 14 years ago<<<lower down there's a "Gamma Level" field>>> Not for me, there isn't. <<<user preferences, look in the editing tab and change the "Imported Still/RGB Video Gamma" >>> I would if I had that setting. I think this was the FCP right before they did all that business with the extra tools. I like to think that my web page with all tby Kozikowski - Café LA Re: The Great Gamma Problem - 14 years ago<<<I'll try it when I step into the shop again.>>> Zippo. Nada. Right or Left Clicking on Source only gives me confirmation of the filename of the still. No control panels. So that's our upgrade path. I did think about this a bit in the shower (some of my best work...). That's how to control the gamma of an item. I have 764 items -- a numbered TGA still collectiby Kozikowski - Café LA Re: The Great Gamma Problem - 14 years ago<<<right click on the word "source".>>> Good to know. I'll try it when I step into the shop again. Thanx. Kozby Kozikowski - Café LA Re: The Great Gamma Problem - 14 years agoNo, the preference is not right there which is why I wanted everyone to reveal their version number. Somewhere between 5 and 6, they put those controls in -- which I would kill to get. I warned the engineering group I was going to come looking for dollars and it was too late to call in sick. Kozby Kozikowski - Café LA Re: The Great Gamma Problem - 14 years ago<<<I think you can switch the gamma in FCP 5 or even 4. >>> No. I'm here to tell you that 5.0.4 has no such controls. The Item Properties panel is a reader. No controls at all. So between 5.0.4 and 6.0, they put the knobs in no doubt due to our constant complaints. We will shortly be delivered many hundreds of carefully numbered TGA files which we will prepare into terrby Kozikowski - Café LA Re: The Great Gamma Problem - 14 years ago<<<FCP always assumes that all RGB based sources are created with a gamma level of 1.8>>> Which Final Cut do you have? Kozby Kozikowski - Café LA Re: The Great Gamma Problem - 14 years agoNo, it's much more serous and straightforward. I created the slate frames for the company and they have gray scales and color patches, etc. etc. If I create a QuicKTime in one of the linux machines and pull that into a FCP project and also pull in the original TIFF still, the still will be significantly brighter than the movie. This error used to have its own web site where I took waveform stiby Kozikowski - Café LA Re: Black IRE Levels - 14 years agoYou can go a long way to resolving this with the Digital Color Meter in Utilities. change it to read in colorspace and poke the eye dropper at your dead blacks and your maximum whites. This is where I get into trouble. If you play your video in QuickTime Player it should know to convert the show to the screen, so blacks will be 000 and whites will be 255, 255, 255. If the blacks are 16 (and tby Kozikowski - Café LA The Great Gamma Problem - 14 years agoI and several other people complained bitterly for a long time that the Mac insisted on adding gamma/brightness conversion to stills imported into a Final Cut project that wasn't applied to a movie. So the exact same still imported as a QT and a TIFF would look very different on the timeline. I also know that one of the versions of Final Cut had a selector where you could prevent that gamma bby Kozikowski - Café LA Re: Broken Video? Send it to Tape! - 14 years agoThere is a glass NTSC monitor on a stand-alone DVD player. That's our Quality Control point. Each Mac has a glass NTSC monitor connected to the monitor point on each capture card, IO in one case and Kona II on the other. I did not look at the damaged video as it was being sent to the machine room and I didn't inspect the tapes after the last cycle of correction. I can do that tomorrow.by Kozikowski - Café LA Re: Broken Video? Send it to Tape! - 14 years ago<<<Is it possible that it's your capture card correcting the mystery problem? When you see the interlacing/motion problems, where are you seeing them?>>> Almost always stuff we got from Somebody Else. One of our jobs arrived as Apple ProRes 4:2:2 720:486 video files. It looks dreadful on the Viewer, it looks dreadful on the Canvas at any size including 100%, it looks dreadfby Kozikowski - Café LA Re: Drive Death - 14 years agoOh, and nobody will be shocked if you need to throw the case away and save the drive. We've done that several times. Kozby Kozikowski - Café LA Re: Drive Death - 14 years ago<<<the first question asked should be "how large is the fan?". If the rep says "What fan?"...run. >>> Yes. Heat will do it. For a while I bought external enclosures that used to have fans in them and I would put them back in. If I played my cards right the screws would line up. You don't need much, either. I found that the little 25mm fans would staby Kozikowski - Café LA Broken Video? Send it to Tape! - 14 years agoThis is of no importance whatever, but I'm just curious why it's happening. Mac Dual G5, Panther, FCP 4.5HD (remember that?) and a very nice AJA IO connected to the machine room. All aggressively Standard Def. All soon, hopefully, to be blown away for a nice Intel machine with the latest FCP, etc. It's a given that any time we have video with interlace problems, bad horizontal motion, grossby Kozikowski - Café LA Re: Open Protools - 14 years ago<<<I am sure you know that the mp3 can be converted and then thickened with STP or PT.>>> No. No idea at all. Thickened? You can tell we do sound all the time down here . Kozby Kozikowski - Café LA Re: Open Protools - 14 years agoIt was a live capture session. We did get an MP3 of the work, I'm not sure why they claimed they couldn't export me a WAV of the same performance. I'm worried that by the time we get to requesting the rest of the files, the recordist will have bulk erased them from his equipment. Given it was a pretty serious session, I personally would hold onto the files until I needed the storage spaceby Kozikowski - Café LA Re: Open Protools - 14 years agoYes, exactly that. I didn't know this was one of the programs that did that. And this is at variance with my specific printed request that they supply us with WAV files on a data DVD. Kozby Kozikowski - Café LA Re: Open Protools - 14 years agoI begin to see the problem. They sent us the project file without the support folders. D'Oh! Kozby Kozikowski - Café LA Open Protools - 14 years agoSomebody handed us a sound file in Protools Native format. Any way to open it without writing a check? Kozby Kozikowski - Café LA Re: converting quicktime - 14 years agoFlip4Mac loads system drivers and suddenly many Mac applications "know" how to deal with Windows Media. Kozby Kozikowski - Compressor - Media Compression and Conversion Re: Recreate digital TV noise? - 14 years agoNo. It will last forever just like everybody knows a radar screen has to go round and round and a newsroom has to sound like a teletype. somebody posted a "movie reality" list of these silly effects. It could also be said that off-air distortion is unique. Digital freeze-ups and crashing look pretty much the same no matter where they come from and most people alive today rememberby Kozikowski - Café LA Re: Putting 3:2 Back In - 14 years agoThat's what would have normally happened. What actually happened was we were delivered a non-standard 16x9 frame size and in a graphics file format that doesn't easily allow for interlacing. So we are taking many giant steps backward to deal with the original material. I couldn't make it look reasonable no matter what, so I started to do media info on the original clips. Wait, that's notby Kozikowski - Café LA Re: Putting 3:2 Back In - 14 years agoIt claims to, yes. The current struggle is to start with a non-television format and get everything to fall out correct in NTSC. So circles have to come out round, the letterbox black bars have to be the right size and shape and it has to be real, stable 3:2 after we play through the Kona. So far we can get any two out of three. We can get good motion with egg circles.... Kozby Kozikowski - Café LA Re: 720P footage into NTSC sequence - 14 years ago<<<Thanks for the input but this is just nuts. >>> It's actually worse. Not only is the relationship between the pixels between HiDef and Pseudo Hi Def a little screwy, at least they're a fixed, rational number, when you convert to standard def, the pixels aren't square. They're off by 1001/1000, plus the conversion. That's what we're struggling with right now. Kozby Kozikowski - Café LA Re: Putting 3:2 Back In - 14 years agoOne piece missing. We have a Kona II and that board may have built-in progression conversion. Kozby Kozikowski - Café LA Putting 3:2 Back In - 14 years agoWe have a lovely video clip at 854 x 480, 23.976. We'd like to lay it off to NTSC DigiBeta. Converting the frame size to letterbox is child's play compared to putting 3:2 in. Every tutorial in the entire internet and points beyond is devoted to the best way to remove 3:2. FCP 5.0.4 with Cinema Tools 3.0.3 (yes, I know. We're on line to get a new machine). We also have JES DeInterlaceby Kozikowski - Café LA Re: best codec for 70 min film to DVD - 14 years ago<<<I think people just like to argue about stuff in England.>>> It's true. That kind of thing never happens in the US. Kozby Kozikowski - Compressor - Media Compression and Conversion Re: New Mac(s) Branch -- Waking Up Yer Monitors - 14 years ago<<<that didn't wake up from sleep.>>> I want to be very clear that the panels do wake up (we also have panels that don't). The little front light turns green and the monitor gives every indication that it wants to return to service. And then, after a couple of seconds it goes back to sleep again. It's like there's a window of opportunity for the Mac and a separate wiby Kozikowski - Café LA |
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