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Re: ProRes 422? - 17 years ago
Johan, it is entirely legitimate to report a successful production for a client who loves the outcome -- in this case, Sony Music. The technical stats you describe are well known to all but recent students. In fact, the final render pass of the HDV and HDCAM material we had was done in DVCPRO-HD, so your preaching to the choir. Nobody in this thread was saying that HDV was perfect or betteby Christopher SJ - Café LA
Re: ProRes 422? - 17 years ago
OK how about this: What are the real MB per second data rates of ProRes and ProRes HQ? Would a simple RAID of two SATA drives be enough for the overhead needed to have lots of fun with these two codecs? If its extremely rare for our own workflow to ever need real uncompressed HD, then what is a good economical "middle road" RAID set up? -Christopherby Christopher SJ - Café LA
Re: ProRes 422? - 17 years ago
RE: HDV is for losers Of course there are problems with some GOP MPEG-2 footage, but we just shot a documentary for Sony Music that is getting a DVD release. We used the Sony HDV cams. The concert part of the film was shot on HDCAM but all of the doc interludes were shot with HDV. And it worked great. And its for a Sony commercial DVD. And Sony loved it. So I think your comments are onlyby Christopher SJ - Café LA
Re: ProRes 422? - 17 years ago
I think your model is realistic. And I love the DVX-100B. I editing footage from that cam as we speak. -Christopher S. Johnsonby Christopher SJ - Café LA
Re: ProRes 422? - 17 years ago
I am sure that as of right now, we are both right. I'm speaking of broadcast documentary for cable, which could be available for re-purposing and re-runs in the future. I watch some of the best upscaling in the nation on PBS every week. I watch Nova and Frontline on Off The Air ATSC HD signal to a Sony CRT HDTV. It is quite obvious when shots in the doc go from HD to SD and back again. Theby Christopher SJ - Café LA
Re: twitchy dvds - 17 years ago
So if I understand correctly, you made the video progressive with your trick. That's what I was saying before: 30p footage didnt have the bad effect. Someone with the problem in interlace footage, try my method above (making the QT Movie 640x480 or 486, save it, and then see how it behaves in iDVD or whatever. My experience is that it fixes the weird field jumping and keeps things with thby Christopher SJ - Café LA
Re: ProRes 422? - 17 years ago
One doesnt shoot and edit in HD just for NOW, but for the viable life of the program you are creating. Have you seen a non-anamorphic letterbox SD program on an HDTV? It will never make you a dime in the future. -Christopher S. Johnsonby Christopher SJ - Café LA
Re: twitchy dvds - 17 years ago
Here is a similar problem I am able to reproduce on ANY Mac running current versions of software and the solution I have. I am shocked this doesnt come up more often on the boards. Take an Uncompressed QT movie, made from a FCP Sequence. The footage is interlaced (the problem doesnt show on progressive footage like 30p). Throw it into iDVD 6. Make the DVD. It will show all kinds of awfulby Christopher SJ - Café LA
Re: Previewing HDV through Sony Video Monitor - 17 years ago
Its too bad, isnt it? Dont you miss the simplicity of the DV/FireWire world? This "gotcha" is a biggie. At least the new $250 Blackmagic card can solve it for HDTVs with an HDMI port. -Christopher S. Johnsonby Christopher SJ - Café LA
Re: Easy way to edit HDV in SD - 17 years ago
I have to add that is IS possible to have success with all of this. Just be careful and deliberate. Do an experiment with a sample short edit and see how it comes out. Also, you can use Batch Export to make new downrezzed clips that keep the timecode. Christopher S. Johnsonby Christopher SJ - Café LA
Re: What not to do when editing HDV natively. - 18 years ago
Johan is a practicing comedian. Either that or he is a loan officer giving out loans for HVX-200s or Varicams... ;-) -Christopherby Christopher SJ - Café LA
Re: What not to do when editing HDV natively. - 18 years ago
It is possible to fix the Boris Calligraphy built-in title tool without a big reinstall. But you need to find someone with a working system. The title tool is just a plug-in here: Hard Drive>Library>Application Support>Final Cut Pro System Support>Plugins There are two plug-ins there named Title3D and TitleCrawl. Just replace those with the ones from a working system and thenby Christopher SJ - Café LA
More answers and disclaimer - 18 years ago
Im not sure if your model down-converts to DV. Check the manual. But yeah, that would be the way to do it on a G4. And for the render, I dont know about you, but I end up with a color correction filter on more than half of my shots. So the quality of the render pass can make a big difference. By the way, I dont want to take away from someone who has no option but to render in HDV. On wby Christopher SJ - Café LA
Re: What not to do when editing HDV natively. - 18 years ago
Hey Filmman, going to DVCPRO-HD is not really up-rezzing. Both HDV and DVCPRO-HD have 1080i formats (and both cheat some of that resolution!). In fact, HDV uses more pixels than DVCPRO-HD. So you are really cross-rezzing. But its the quality of the "space" the format lives in that makes DVCPRO-HD so attractive. It lives in a less compressed, higher color-space, and less computeby Christopher SJ - Café LA
Re: managing HDV - 18 years ago
Cool, Shane. Is that with interlace or progressive footage? -Christopherby Christopher SJ - Café LA
Re: Up Res to HDV ?? wow - 18 years ago
If your footage is already progressive, then deinterlacing it will degrade and hurt your image badly. The real way to improve your footage is to set up the finest quality tube television you can possibly afford, calibrate it with FCP color bars (the manual tells you how), and the use the Three Way Color Correction tool while monitoring on the TV. And please do not use the composite cable.by Christopher SJ - Café LA
Re: managing HDV - 18 years ago
Is the DV footage progressive or interlace? The uprezzing product "Instant HD" does a good job with progressive footage. One thing I do know, though: multiple formats in a FCP timeline may feel OK for a while, but later on tech problems can bite you in the ass. Like during Media manager operations. Do try to get everything into one format before editing. -Christopherby Christopher SJ - Café LA
Re: What not to do when editing HDV natively. - 18 years ago
Hey Filmman, here are three short answers to your question. I have been where you are and I hope this helps. The method you describe is interesting but could run into weird settings and time issues. Look at these and know that they are tested and true: 1.) Edit just in HDV all of the way. PRO: lower cost, cuts only keeps good looks. CON: using a dual G5 to edit a big HDV Sequence feelby Christopher SJ - Café LA
Re: FCP Intel and Power PC interoperability? - 18 years ago
Right. No prob. I use Photoshop, which is not Universal, from time to time, but its iLife and Pro Apps after that. And those are Universal. -Christopherby Christopher SJ - Café LA
FCP Intel and Power PC interoperability? - 18 years ago
Hi we want to get a new Intel in our shop that has several Power PCs. If we run the exact same version of FCP, what kind of interoperability issues might we have? Can we exchange project files just fine? -Christopherby Christopher SJ - Café LA
Re: monitoring DVCPROHD... - 18 years ago
Not just for propellerheads: the gamma levels, interlace artifacts, the difference between computer color space and HDTV colorspace.... Use it for offline, though. At our cash strapped studio, we will be using a Dell 24" LCD computer monitor for detail monitoring from its component inputs (something a 19" monitor cannot do), and a Standard def high-end production monitor for color coby Christopher SJ - Café LA
Re: Compressor 2 is inferior - 18 years ago
Yes, I stand by my comment. Sorenson3 is nice and handles low-motion well and graphics, but requires larger files than the setting I cited. But for regular motion footage the H.624 sweet spot of the iPod settings can do as much as Sorenson, and superior fades and dissolves, at a much less file size. In other words, file size is a major consideration in my opinion. And QT Pro is only $30. I aby Christopher SJ - Café LA
Export to iPod - SUPERIOR web mov - 18 years ago
I am sill amazed at the quality/size ratio of the "Export To iPod" setting in QT Pro. It is the best thing I have seen anywhere. The trick to have it work on a web page? 1) Convert the associated application of the movie to "QuickTime Player" in the Get Info dialog box. It is "iTunes" by default. 2) In the Command-J dialog box un-check, and then re-check the vidby Christopher SJ - Café LA
BAD Multiclip performance - 19 years ago
Hi, my client has a 1GHZ G4 with 1 GIG of RAM and is having to use a lower quality RT setting to view four cameras in a multi-clip. Looks like one quarter res and 15 frames per second. Would upgrading to a good Graphics Card be enough to view 30 fps and full res of four cameras in the Viewer? Or is a G5 the *only* solution? Which card would you specifically reccomend? Thanks, -Christopherby Christopher SJ - Café LA
