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Not registered? Click HERE to register now Re: how to capture feature film to FCP 5.04 for streaming? - 14 years agoThanks for commenting, Shane. I was going nuts; I put in a few hours fiddling around with capture to no avail. Ok, so DV is the best I can do with Pinnacle. Now, on to a capture card... which one shall I buy? I guess I have to buy a capture card because I have several 35mm feature films that I'd like to digitize and revamp in FCP 5.04 and then put them on my site as streaming movies. This wby filmman - Café LA Re: how to capture feature film to FCP 5.04 for streaming? - 14 years agoI just tried it, strypes. It says, "Capture has been aborted ... problem with your tape ... clip has been saved." But only one frame is saved, the first. This is when the Capture preset and Sequence preset are set to DV 50 NTSC. Can you help. The quality looks much better :-) How can I capture with better quality? thanks!by filmman - Café LA how to capture feature film to FCP 5.04 for streaming? - 14 years agoI have a few older feature films shot on 35mm and telecined to 1 inch masters and 3/4 inch Umaitc tape. I want to capture them into FCP 5.04 and replace music and revamp them a little for streaming on my website. I may want to sell a limited number of DVDs as well. I have a Pinnacle System 110 Movie Box for digitizing. I have digitized one of these movies and now it sits in my G5 as an NTSC DVby filmman - Café LA Re: Canon 7D footage; frame rate question - 14 years agoHey, Kingg33. What does the 24p that is shot in the Canon 7D look like in FCP. I'm assuming you're editing in a 23.98 timeline, right? Does it look like 24 fps shot in film? Are you watching it on a monitor that projects 24 fps or 29.97? See, I'm also assuming that the reason they're shooting with a Canon 7D is because they eventually want to generate a 35mm print, am I right? Or is it just anby filmman - Café LA Re: using AE in FCP Studio - 14 years agoQuoteJeff Harrell wrote: You're coming at this like After Effects just does these things. That's not right at all. Well, there are all these plugins that just do these things. And AE apparently has many such things. Things! There are too many things to learn.LOL I'm humbled and appreciative of your analysis of how not to approach digital effects. QuoteDigital compositing is an evolution ofby filmman - Café LA Re: using AE in FCP Studio - 14 years agoQuoteDan Brockett wrote: Assuming you have FCS, you already have Motion so I would play with it and see how you like it. I tried to learn motion a bunch of times but can't do it. I can use basic Motion inside of FCP 5.04, but as far as sending something to Motion and getting it back in one piece, I've not been able to do. I asked a question on August 30th of 2009 in the Motion forum here and nby filmman - Café LA Re: using AE in FCP Studio - 14 years agoQuoteAndrew Kines wrote: And skip the Premier step (and the need to buy Premier) by using this This will be a must have program for me to buy. I'm thinking it will be possible for me to work in AE on my G5 dual processor computer and go back and forth between FCP 5.04 and AE. Is this correct? I don't need an Intel G5? QuoteDan Brockett wrote: If you have the time to devote to learn AE, it isby filmman - Café LA Re: using AE in FCP Studio - 14 years agoQuotegrafixjoe wrote: You can't use AE in FCS to enhance and compliment filters and plug ins of FCP. It is an Adobe Software application and cannot be used within FCS. For more info on AE and it's capabilities go here: thanks for the reference to Adobe Forums. I'm going to bookmark the link for future reference. QuoteJ. Corbett wrote: Think of it like this. FCP is for cutting video and veryby filmman - Café LA using AE in FCP Studio - 14 years agoI'm seriously considering acquiring & using After Effects with my FCP 5.04 to enhance & compliment the filters and plugins of FCP. Can you advise me regarding what are the major benefits of adding the capabilities of A & E to FCP Studio 5.04? Thanks --vicby filmman - Café LA Re: OT: Canon officially announces frame-rate firmware for 5D - 14 years agoBack to the Future camera that shoots 24 frames per second without the ridiculous rigs that take a 2 ounce camera and make it weigh 55 lbs.LOLby filmman - Café LA Re: OT - What's a half hour show length these days? - 14 years agoQuoteJude CotterEvery broadcaster is different. Are there any set parameters in Australia? QuoteShane RossBetween 21:30 and 24:00 for half hour. Between 42 min and 46 min for full hour. I haven't seen 48 for years. It used to be strictly 22 1/2 for half hour shows during the three network days, but I have noticed lately that some networks are more flexible in their time slots. I seem to remeby filmman - Café LA OT - What's a half hour show length these days? - 14 years agoIt used to be that a half hour show for TV had to be 22 1/2 minutes and the one hour show had to be 48 minutes. Have things changed or are they the same?by filmman - Café LA Re: How to convert 29.97 interlaced to 23.98 progressive with smooth motion - 14 years agoIt's too complicated, Jeff. I don't have a handle on how to word the question. QuoteAndyHow to convert 29.97 interlaced to 23.98 progressive with smooth motion Sometimes the best answer to a complicated question is accidental. I think here the addition of "with smooth motion" produced the results. No, it is impossible to do the conversion "with smooth motion"! So it'sby filmman - Café LA Re: How to convert 29.97 interlaced to 23.98 progressive with smooth motion - 14 years agoSorry, I goofed. It was telecined to DVCAM, not HDV.by filmman - Café LA Re: How to convert 29.97 interlaced to 23.98 progressive with smooth motion - 14 years agoQuotestrypesThe reason why you can't do 24pA on the Z1, is precisely because it shoots to HDV. You can't ingest and remove a pulldown when your frames are stuck in a GOP. Thank you for pointing this out to me. QuoteJeff HarrellLet us have no misunderstandings about this: It is a physical impossibility to take 60i video and turn it into 24p. It cannot be done This is a life saver for me. Thby filmman - Café LA Re: How to convert 29.97 interlaced to 23.98 progressive with smooth motion - 14 years agoThanks, Jeff. I've been watching too much slalom lately; I just went for it, you know what I mean? One of my Norwegian friends advised me the first time I tried slalom, "It's not how fast you go down the hill; it's how you go down the hill." I was just trying to understand what the 29.97 to 23.98 conversion process entails. There are six extra frames there. Per second. Beside tby filmman - Café LA Re: OT: Solved: The mathematics of the Hollywood blockbuster - 14 years agoNevertheless, attention spans are getting shorter, and the speed of editing is increasing. Special effects are getting more and more bizarre and the editor has to cut before it becomes obvious it's a model, etc. In the last James Bond movie the cutting was too fast for me. The new martial arts movies are also too fast -- the cutting that is; I can hardly see anything anymore. The action sceby filmman - Café LA Re: How to convert 29.97 interlaced to 23.98 progressive with smooth motion - 14 years agoHey, Andy, I'm trying to understand your question. QuoteAndyMy project is NTSC, 480x720 16:9 anamorphic, 23.98 progressive. I've tried editing the 29.97 footage into my 23.98 timeline, and Final Cut Just takes out some frames to make it fit, causing motion to look jerky. 1) If your project is 720x480 anamorphic 16:9, then the horizontal field is less than 720 lines. 2) If your 29.97 fby filmman - Café LA Re: Editor credits - 14 years agoTo me the editor is the most important member of a production. I have a chapter in my book on the editor. You can read it for free on Amazon.com > FILMMAKING A TO Z. There is a table of contents and you can review the whole book if you like. Here are some points missing in this discussion (not entirely): 1) If a director respects the editor, the editor will do a better job than the direcby filmman - Café LA Re: Uh Oh! Not Good... THANK GOD! - 14 years agoThank you, Jeff, for putting things into proper perspective; finally someone who knows the technology explains the quagmire of NLE realities. Ok, well, now we know there is life after Apple...by filmman - Café LA Re: Way OT: moderators are super heroes - 14 years agoLAFCPUG is an amazing user group. I agree with you, Laurie. The OPs are really incredible. If the question is asked correctly they are the fastest and most thorough in answering it. I review the technical questions asked every day. This is a really great forum for learning. Many times the OPs will bend over backwards to answer a question even when someone isn't sure about what they're asking aby filmman - Café LA Re: Video to Film - Is it still being done? - Sony EX3 / PWM350 etc - 14 years agoI would be very happy to give you all the details on film outside of this thread. You have my email address. BTW thanks for providing excellent technical info on digital cameras.by filmman - Café LA Re: Video to Film - Is it still being done? - Sony EX3 / PWM350 etc - 14 years agoSean wrote: QuoteI am considering starting a major cinematography project that will span over a few years. I was considering shooting the project on 35mm film, but due to budget constraints it looks like it will be shot on video. strypes posted the price list for camera rentals in this thread, digital cameras that may come closer to the quality of 35mm film. I looked at the rental prices and woby filmman - Café LA Re: Video to Film - Is it still being done? - Sony EX3 / PWM350 etc - 14 years agoDan wrote: QuoteI would love to see what kind of transfers $125.00 an hour gets you. They are SD but you can do a Cinema Tools reverse telecine and generate a negative cutting list, no? So then one can finish the movie in 35mm, print it and release it as a 35mm. For digital releasing, such as DVD or streaming, appropriate masters can be made from a 35mm low-con print, for example. Jude wrby filmman - Café LA Re: Video to Film - Is it still being done? - Sony EX3 / PWM350 etc - 14 years agoSean wrote: QuoteI was considering shooting the project on 35mm film, but due to budget constraints it looks like it will be shoot on video. Present technology will most likely be obsolete by the time you're ready for screening your movie. You should re-consider 35mm, especially with 35mm short ends going for 10 cents per foot. Processing is also 10 cents per foot. If you're movie is, let's sayby filmman - Café LA Re: HDV woes continue...need better workflow - 14 years agoCasey: I have been using the Sony Z1U also. What you say is crucial for me as well. QuoteI 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 same amount of time as my HDV projects. What you're telling mby filmman - Café LA Re: Happy New Year! - 14 years agoYou beat us to the New Year, strypes! Happy New Year to you too~ and everybody in the order of your distance from the Greenwich clock Happy New Year! May the New Year bring you happiness and success. Vicby filmman - Café LA Re: FCP to iPod - 14 years agoThanks, Nick. I appreciate that.by filmman - Compressor - Media Compression and Conversion FCP to iPod - 14 years agoHope you all had a marvelous Christmas and a happy Hanukah! The nicest present I got this year was an iTouch. So I thought: wouldn't it be nice to put all my movies on it and take it to the film markets and show my trailers to distributors on the fly? -- up and down elevators, in taxis, at restaurants (with ketchup dripping on their ties).LOL I tried to drag some trailer files over to the iby filmman - Compressor - Media Compression and Conversion Re: OT: Merry Xmas and a Great 2010 - 14 years agoMerry Christmas! And a Happy Hanukah! We all hope and pray for peace regardless of how each one of us celebrates the holiday. May the new year bring you all good fortune and happiness. Vic Alexanderby filmman - Café LA |
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