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Not registered? Click HERE to register now The two main colours of concern along the Kelvin scale - 7 years agohello, I was recently asked in an interview "Which are the two main colours of concern along the Kelvin scale in video" Green and Blue or Red and Green or Black and white. I never came to a situation like the above before, and i was wondering if anybody can give me an answer and why please. I pressume this has to do with possible clipping or colour wavelengths that videoby vt81400 - Café LA Compressor: converting CCTV .H64 codec videos - 9 years agohello, Is there a .64 codec for my compressor to convert this unreadable format by converters etc. to a readable format i.e. .mov please ? i would like to convert CCTV footage from iDVR CCTV recorded application (runs on windows) with extension .H64 to normal .mov or .avi files to allow viewing from DVD and handle to justice personnel for a case. Insofar, under PPC MAC OSX 10.5.8 leopardby vt81400 - Compressor - Media Compression and Conversion compressing @3,7Mbps and image ghosting problem on PAL TV - 12 years agohello, I need your help to determine why after transcoding an MPG file, burn in DVDSP, and play on PAL TV, i get image ghosts (semi transparent shadow copies of people) at points when user pans the camcorder (footage is really shaky at the pan stage) Only shows on PAL TV. I tried to play a test on 2 dvd players (not pc/ mac). First player showed the interlacing lines inc image ghostinby vt81400 - Compressor - Media Compression and Conversion Re: FCP7 -How to create custom frame size for timelapse - 12 years agoIts time for me to switch to 422 or HQ ! now its all explained, why my timelapse skies etc look really bad, after grading / CC filters. With LT, the aperture contours are quite visible (rainbow like not continuous tonality, that looks like an animated rainbow) during playback etc. Something to be immediately fixed in future. Great advise! really appreciated.by vt81400 - Café LA Re: FCP7 -How to create custom frame size for timelapse - 12 years agodear derek, I will first take the opportunity to express wishes for a happy and prosperous new year to you and your family members as well as FCP LA users. thank you for your reply, i followed your advise on the conversion and worked much better without much trouble. I resized it from mpeg streamclip. looks ok now. May i ask you if there is significant difference between prores LT and Hby vt81400 - Café LA FCP7 -How to create custom frame size for timelapse - 12 years agohello, I created a timelapse on a dslr which resized to 600x400 as i wanted to use it as sample and also import in FCP7 and add a watermark in it. I opened FCP and i cannot find a way even when using easy setup, to create a project with 600x400pixels frame size @25fps in order to fit and edit the image without distorting it. I tried editing sequence presets but i get i.e. HD720xNNN etby vt81400 - Café LA Re: FCP and 720p mp4 file import problem - 13 years agotom, thanks for your reply files came out of a consumer sony dslr with video recording function. format of files is mp4. QT says format 3ivx D4.5.1, 1280x720, millions, AAC, stereo L,R, 24K, fps 29,97. data rate 8,9. insofar i have all of them imported again in 720p@30fps in FCP, rendered them and edited them already. i have the originals as well stored separately. total duration of tby vt81400 - Café LA Re: FCP and 720p mp4 file import problem - 13 years agodear derekmok, my video sequence presets in FCP right now are 720p@30fps and 32k sound. does this mean PAL by default ? The video footage is not 4:3 or letterboxed by the way so i tried to keep the aspect ratio as is. Rendering is set to 8b YUV. the reason i left audio @ 32 is because i thought if i convert it to 48 sound might be corrupted or would not play properly. I have fcp 5.1 on PPby vt81400 - Café LA Re: Cinema tools manual - 13 years agobj, thanks for your help ! happy new year !by vt81400 - Café LA Cinema tools manual - 13 years agoI have recently found that apple has an online manual of cinema tools. something that is missing from my FCP studio pack. I was wondering if someone has seen any apple pages that can allow to download this file as PDF and if possible to post a link to download it as seems impossible to me to browse the web all the time to read it. regards,by vt81400 - Café LA Re: DVDSP- Problem: long Black (no video) footage in the middle of sequence - 13 years agodear hal, thanks for the reply back to me please. it seems the compression process had an issue with the file and result was corrupted file as you said. i asked for the customer to bring the tape back as i did not have the (R) files on my HDD and i confirm your prediction. best wishes for xmas hollidays and a happy new year to you and your family members.by vt81400 - DVD Studio Pro FCP and 720p mp4 file import problem - 13 years agohello, today a customer brought me 5 clips of video recorded with in-camera video mode. model of camera sony. the camera outpout mp4 files. customer wanted me to join them in 1 piece. total time of clips = 4 minutes. Sound freq. 32k. I thought 'piece of cake' and prompted the customer to wait until i merge them all, although never done such conversion in the pas as i usually import fooby vt81400 - Café LA DVDSP- Problem: long Black (no video) footage in the middle of sequence - 13 years agohello, I will describe the problem in detail.... I noticed long black video frames while playing back a video sequence (m2v) in my DVDSP simulator. I imported about 12 hi8 tapes for a customer, in FCP in order to edit them and make DVDs as final product. I followed the procedure, import to FCP, export as QT -no markers etc in file, Load compressor, and run the file 2-times there. 1st forby vt81400 - DVD Studio Pro Re: FCP 5.1.4 PPC transitions do not work - 13 years agoTom Wolsky Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Do you have enough handles to create the > transition overlap? > > Tom thanks for the link, very useful and solved my problem. Indeed did not have enough handles. I followed the instructions on webpage and worked ok. I also tried splitting with Blade tool -12 and + 12 from the Outgoing clip iby vt81400 - Café LA Re: FCP 5.1.4 PPC transitions do not work - 13 years agoJon: I quit all apps, run CleanApp program that i guess deletes the files and relevant prefs extensions etc, automatically from HDD. After that i restarted, and installed FCP and cinematools from the DVD bundle disks. I have FCP studio bundle.by vt81400 - Café LA FINAL CUT STUDIO PRO HD 5.1 PPC/ MACINTEL -boxed original - 13 years agoFOR sale ORIGINAL boxed (inc. all manuals, DVD installation s/w, packaging) APPLE's FINAL CUT STUDIO PRO HD v5.1 SOFTWARE included FCP PRO HD 5.1, MOTION 2, DVD SP 4, SOUNDTRACK PRO. Purchased from UK @ £800. Secondhand sale price Euro 250.00 inc. FREE postage in Greece. For International / European shipping Sale price is euro 300.00. All item have photos available on request. PPC-macby vt81400 - lafcpug Market Re: FCP 5.1.4 PPC transitions do not work - 13 years agoi uninstalled FCP and cinema tools and reinstalled them.by vt81400 - Café LA Re: FCP 5.1.4 PPC transitions do not work - 13 years agotom thanks for the reply. i did not check the link, i thought it was an personal page link. sorry. i am going to read it now.by vt81400 - Café LA Re: FCP 5.1.4 PPC transitions do not work - 13 years agoTom, what do you mean by handles please ? This is how my timeline looks like. (scshot.jpg) Screenshot of timeline video is about 60mins and each clip long enough. My FCP timecode is 01:00:00;00 dropframeby vt81400 - Café LA FCP 5.1.4 PPC transitions do not work - 13 years agohello, today i experienced a weird problem. When launching FCP from dock icon, a message appeared explaining that could not start up. Options appeared: Ignore, Reset Prefs, and one more i cant remember. I clicked reset. Then restarted... Nothing. I use PPC DC 2Ghz and installed leopard 10.5.8. I uninstalled with cleanup app. Re-installed FCP and cinema tools. Then from a backup of prefby vt81400 - Café LA Re: DVDSP v4 error TOO MANY CHAPTERS -then crashes - 14 years agodear hal, thanks for your reply back to me please. indeed very handy tips, and although I do mini-QT slideshows from time to time, never thought using it to create slide shows please... I already tried compressor and size and quality are very fine, insofar. Further to the issue of adjusting markers is a good way for me altough tedious job, as I expect it to be more precise way to setby vt81400 - DVD Studio Pro Compressor and 7GB QT outpout - 14 years agohello, i am facing a little problem with exporting using compressor please. I got a QT file 768x576 PAL 25fps 48k 4:3 -anamporphic 169 letterbox export. is about 30min 7GB. but i have other movies to add to DVDSP as well. I loaded a 30sec file to see result in Compressor (Co.). I chose DVD 120min 4:3 and MPG2. It output a file with no sound m2v. I never performed any C. conversionby vt81400 - Compressor - Media Compression and Conversion Re: DVDSP v4 error TOO MANY CHAPTERS -then crashes - 14 years agodear hal. thanks a lot for the very useful technical reply simplified for me please ! I understand now 90 images slideshow is a problem with markers.... Well, i never tried doing a movie slideshow in FCP and import it, but I am wondering how to do it, and do not loose resolution when i export it at all, especially when importing/ exporting photos in a movie file. thanks again for theby vt81400 - DVD Studio Pro Re: Rendered audio issue. Export audio is unusable - 14 years agothanks for the reply back to me jeff. it is a very handful tip for me at the moment that do this mixing in FCP only as i have sound from built-in camera mic always ! best regards,by vt81400 - Café LA Re: Rendered audio issue. Export audio is unusable - 14 years agohm... ok ! great tips sir anrew kines ! thanks a lot for your help again please ! May I ask 2 more questions please ? 1) FORUM posts: if a querry gets replied and problem is solved do i have to delete the post to save space for others to post q&a or does not matter please ? 2) It belongs to another category i guess but, if you can answer it, according to your opinion, which isby vt81400 - Café LA Re: Rendered audio issue. Export audio is unusable - 14 years agodear andrew, thanks for your support again please. I need to correct something. when i open the captured file (on HDD) The inspector does not say BM codec, but in the format says BM DV 720x576 (1024x576) millions. I hope did not confuse anybody. appologies if i did please. Indeed i always hook the camera via 1394 and L&Capture. My data rate (format info card in FCP) says 3.6MB/s aby vt81400 - Café LA Re: Rendered audio issue. Export audio is unusable - 14 years agohello derekmok, the compression rate for the movie as in my settings in compressor, in audio-video is DV-PAL @75% when i export it just gives me a choice of presets only as drop down menu, then choose mine 'dv pal 48k Q75 169anamorphic' choice and save as self contained. The rest is auto I guess in s/w. I never seen a selection for the rate at all. The garbage export when opened in QT iby vt81400 - Café LA Re: Rendered audio issue. Export audio is unusable - 14 years agothanks a lot andrew, i will try to change my sequence settings as well then. Because in my video settings i have set up DV-PAL, colours 24b millions, no data rate limit, quality 75, audio settings 44.100 stereo 8b, 25fps timebase. i will do it 16b 48khz. i check my HDD capture file, and inspector QT, says 16b, mono (2 channels), 48khz, blackmagic codec. i will test and post respectiveby vt81400 - Café LA Rendered audio issue. Export audio is unusable - 14 years agohello, i have FCP 5.1.4 on OSX DC 2Ghz v10.4.11 tiger I recently recorded a christening. Put video files (log and capture) on hdd. Made a sequence DV PAL 720x576, with 16:9 anamorphic as i captured using the 16:9 SD on my sony camcorder. I edited everything, cut video and sound etc. I made a test export of 5min movie, as QT movie with 16:9 anamprphic. sound 8bit 44khz. I play itby vt81400 - Café LA Re: DVDSP v4 error TOO MANY CHAPTERS -then crashes - 14 years agodear hal, thanks for your reply back to me please. menus and dvd format are set to 4:3. except the 16:9 submenu button that plays the video of a concert. Unfortunatelly did not receive an answer from apple insofar on this issue. I tried a different solution to the problem that helped a bit. I erased 2 menus completely and all butons with linked slideshows and re-created them afteby vt81400 - DVD Studio Pro |
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