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Not registered? Click HERE to register now Re: HDV woes continue...need better workflow - 14 years agoHere's an example of how I'm judging speed: I take a 30 second clip that was captured as HDV, put an HDV timeline, put a color correction filter on it and put it at 50% speed. Render it out (it has the green render bar on top), and it takes 1 minute to render. Take the same 30 second clip off the tape, capture it as ProRes, put it on a ProRes timeline, put the color correction filter on itby CaseyPetersen - Café LA Re: HDV woes continue...need better workflow - 14 years agoIs it a 4:2:2 vs. 4:2:0 issue? See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4:2:2#4:2:2. Especially the examples of 4:2:0. Maybe this is why I'm seeing positive results with ProRes and not HDV? Thoughts? Thanks!by CaseyPetersen - Café LA 7D straight to DVD - 14 years agoAnother question about 7D footage: If I'm going straight from the 7D video files to DVD, it doesn't make sense to convert to ProRes and then go from ProRes to MPEG2, right? It should be best going straight to MPEG2, right? The only thing is, if I have 100 7D clips, I don't want to have to drag and drop 100 files onto a DVDSP timeline...I would want to join them into one clip. I know I canby CaseyPetersen - Compressor - Media Compression and Conversion Re: HDV woes continue...need better workflow - 14 years agoFilmman, I have a Mac Pro, 2x3GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon, 10GB RAM and am running OSX Tiger, and as I said, Final Cut Studio 2. I have 3-4 FW800 drives connected for my video drives. I don't remember how much it cost...it was years ago. Strypes, I de-interlaced all four stills before posting them...I thought that it would make things easier...maybe not. Bottom line...they are captures ofby CaseyPetersen - Café LA Re: 5D/7D workflow - 14 years agoOsbourne, What you're doing is converting the 5d (7D in my case) footage to what (HDV?) using a Compressor droplet...then are you putting it on a (HDV?) timeline and further adding a shift fields +1 filter and fast de-interlace filter? I'm interested in knowing because I just started using a 7D and will soon be integrating it with my HDV footage. Thanks! Caseyby CaseyPetersen - Café LA Re: HDV woes continue...need better workflow - 14 years agoNo, I'm not set up for rendering effects and transitions in ProRes...but I'm seeing this problem even on footage that has no effects or transitions. I do capture everything as HDV. I tried doing a wedding in ProRes (captured and edited), and it took me 4x as long to complete the project, which is unacceptable from a time standpoint. I need a workflow that is at least close to taking the sameby CaseyPetersen - Café LA Re: HDV woes continue...need better workflow - 14 years agoYep, my sequence defaults to upper....or are you talking about a setting in Compressor? Another test I once did with this footage is in Compressor, under the A/V Attributes, selecting top dominance, bottom dominance and then progressive, to see which looked the best. When I selected top, it was jaggy. When I selected bottom, it was jaggy and the interlacing was backwards. When I selectedby CaseyPetersen - Café LA HDV woes continue...need better workflow - 14 years agoQuick background...I have been shooting HDV with the Sony Z1U for 4 years now and have been editing everything in HDV and have been mastering HDV back to tape. I have MAJOR issues with Compressor and how it compresses HDV footage...I have video captures now to prove it. The problem is, if I use Compressor on my HDV footage, I get jaggies everywhere. My workaround has been to take my HDV edby CaseyPetersen - Café LA Easy audio EQ within FCP - 14 years agoI know there are tons of ways to EQ audio in Soundtrack Pro, but I'm looking for something that I can do even more quickly and easily within FCP...if this is possible. I used to edit on a DPS Velocity years ago, and it had a graphic equalizer on a part of the screen where you could take a pen tool and visually bring up or down whatever frequencies you wanted...basically the same as the Channeby CaseyPetersen - Café LA 7D footage with Compressor - 14 years agoWhen you're working with 7D footage...converted to ProRes using Compressor's ProRes preset...then editing on FCP...when it's time to go to DVD, do I need to change any of Compressor's presets for DVD (120 minute best quality, for instance) to match any of the settings inherent in the footage...such as interlacing settings or frame rate settings or anything else for optimal results? Thanks! Caby CaseyPetersen - Compressor - Media Compression and Conversion Unknown device error. (0x0C, 0x00.) - 14 years agoI got the following error twice while burning a DVD: The recording device reported the media error: Unknown device error. (0x0C, 0x00.) Anyone know what this is? Caseyby CaseyPetersen - DVD Studio Pro Re: Taking a big hit in quality - 14 years agoThe thing is...the quality is acceptable to me using the DVD recorder method, and it is unacceptable using the Compressor method. The text on the logo is actually readable on my 32" LCD TV with the DVD recorder method, and it isn't readable at all with the Compressor method. So it shouldn't be a MPEG2 SD issue, since I know it is possible to get acceptable results. I'm trying to figureby CaseyPetersen - Compressor - Media Compression and Conversion Re: Taking a big hit in quality - 14 years agoOh, I don't encode to DVD twice...I strip out the M2V and AC3 files off the original DVD using MPEG Streamclip...then I import them into DVDSP and continue to author. Strange as the process may seem, it is giving me the best quality since I am using *gasp* HDV. I shoot with the Sony Z1U, edit in HDV and lay my edit back to HDV tape. This time, HDV isn't even part of the equation...if youby CaseyPetersen - Compressor - Media Compression and Conversion Taking a big hit in quality - 14 years agoThose who have read my posts in the past know about my struggles with HDV and Compressor. I find that I take a large, noticeable quality hit by using Compressor, so instead I master everything back to HDV tape, record that to a set-top DVD recorder, extract the MPGs off the disc and proceed to author. I have found that whenever HDV is in the equation, I get this hit in quality. So lately, foby CaseyPetersen - Compressor - Media Compression and Conversion Re: Need better quality than "DVD Best Quality 90" - 14 years agoI just tried this and it barely looked better than before. The trouble comes whenever HDV is in the mix...I guess the ultimate solution would be to just never use HDV. You'd think it would work. Maybe it works better with the new Final Cut Studio? I'm still on Studio 2. Caseyby CaseyPetersen - Compressor - Media Compression and Conversion Re: WAAAAAY OT: Things I've never had to do before.... - 14 years agoOkay...I'm okay with losing the sound...actually this button thing was a bit speculative anyways, but I still would like to know if it is possible to do this graphically. Worst case scenario, I make a solid color orange dot button, but I would like to know if I can up my graphics game a little bit by having something other than solid color buttons (regardless of shape). Thanks! Caseyby CaseyPetersen - DVD Studio Pro Re: WAAAAAY OT: Things I've never had to do before.... - 14 years agoOops! I thought I did post it in the DVDSP forum! You can move it there...I'm not sure how, myself. Caseyby CaseyPetersen - DVD Studio Pro WAAAAAY OT: Things I've never had to do before.... - 14 years agoHi everyone, I had a request from a customer recently, and I haven't done any of these things before, and I'm wondering if they're possible or easy to do....and how to do them as well Oh, and don't ask me about why they want cheeseballs! First request...they want the buttons to be little yellow cheeseballs...I know how to use a yellow circle, but this is a little not-perfectly-round cirby CaseyPetersen - DVD Studio Pro Re: Help with joining several hundred MPG clips for easy DVD authoring - 14 years agoActually, Derek, I tried that last time, and I had an audio drift issue...it was pretty close for the first 10-15 minutes, but after 45-60 minutes, it was off by at least 30 seconds. Is there a setting that I had wrong, possibly? The choices are "Join all the files", "Fix Timecode Breaks", and under that "Do not skip any frame". What is "Fix timecode breaby CaseyPetersen - Café LA Re: Help with joining several hundred MPG clips for easy DVD authoring - 14 years agoThat's what I ended up doing this time...I did a batch encode overnight, and it's going to work. The thing is, I don't like having to go from MPG2 to ProRes and back to MPG2 again. If it's already in MPG2 format, I'd prefer not to have to go back and forth this way. Thanks! Caseyby CaseyPetersen - Café LA Re: Help with joining several hundred MPG clips for easy DVD authoring - 14 years agoI've already tried searching the internet, but all I get is advertising and links to $25 shareware programs that are for PC that also re-encode all the footage.by CaseyPetersen - Café LA Help with joining several hundred MPG clips for easy DVD authoring - 14 years agoHave you ever had to deal with these new camcorders that record to SD cards or internal flash drives? The files you get from them are MPEG-2 files (actual muxed .MPG files that are named .MOD), I rename the files to .MPG and I'm somewhat ready to go. What I have to do to get them in DVDSP is to demux them to M2V and AC3 files. The problem is when I have several hundred or nearly a thousandby CaseyPetersen - Café LA Looking for a good tutorial series - 14 years agoI am looking for a good Motion tutorial series. I have two discs of Absolute Training's Motion, but they don't go very deep. What I'm likely to use Motion for would be mostly for animating text and doing simple logo animations. I'm looking for something that is a bit more practical for what I'm wanting to do, but also something that isn't only simple or really short. I want something moby CaseyPetersen - Motion Re: Need better quality than "DVD Best Quality 90" - 14 years agoI finally found someone who sees what I'm seeing!!!! This is EXACTLY the problem I have!!! What I have been doing with my HDV1080i60 footage is to lay the edit back to HDV tape, then take the output of my Sony Z1U through firewire into a Panasonic set-top DVD recorder. I finalize the DVD and bring it back in the Mac. I use MPEG Streamclip to demux to M2V and AC3 files and then author with Dby CaseyPetersen - Compressor - Media Compression and Conversion Re: what are the EAST SET UP Settings for the Canon D5 ? - 14 years agoOkay...another question...when I am in my timeline settings, what should the "field dominance" be set at for this 30p footage...none, upper or lower? My logic would say that it should be none, right? I'm trying to run a bunch of tests here with the footage. Bottom line, the way I did it looks bad on a tube TV...like I said, it looks like a cheap camcorder's "progressive imitatby CaseyPetersen - Café LA Re: what are the EAST SET UP Settings for the Canon D5 ? - 14 years agoThis is the other thing...maybe I'm doing something wrong here. When I see a typical Hollywood blockbuster DVD...pick one...they're using progressive, not interlaced, and it looks fantastic...not like a cheap progressive imitation on a consumer camcorder, which is what it looks like to me when I try to do it. Do I have to do something different when I'm encoding or authoring a DVD if I'm usby CaseyPetersen - Café LA Re: what are the EAST SET UP Settings for the Canon D5 ? - 14 years agoI've been using a 7D recently, and am really confused, so bear with me a little bit. We used the 1080/30 setting and I am a little confused...is it 30p or 29.97i...it says something about 30 being 29.97...is it actually 29.97p? Secondly, I did an edit yesterday using footage from the Sony Z1U and the 7D in these settings. I did use Compressor to convert it to HDV1080i60 to match the Z1U foby CaseyPetersen - Café LA Re: OT: Editing advice - 14 years agoThanks! I'm not going to have time to upload a sample any time soon...I know it would help, and maybe if some of these techniques aren't working for me, I'll do it. As far as the "right" way, I hadn't thought of Nick's method...if it were up to me, I would have had a second camera just getting closeups from an almost identical perspective...and doing it one time and simply switchiby CaseyPetersen - Café LA Re: Creating transitions using logos - 14 years agoYou know...after all these years of using FCP...I never noticed that Motion Blur thing before! I'll have to play around with that. I don't have After Effects, either Santa...can you hear me? Thanks! Caseyby CaseyPetersen - Café LA Creating transitions using logos - 14 years agoAnother question... I'm wondering about using a full screen logo as a transition...a wipe, let's say...I made my logo 2 seconds, and keyframed it from left to right, then put it over my video transition with a 1 second edge wipe, and it looks kinda cool, but at just 2 seconds it's really jerky. Can anyone tell me how to do this better...or right? Thanks! Caseyby CaseyPetersen - Café LA |
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