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Re: 24p DVD - Scrolling Titles - OMG... - 14 years agoHey Noah, Thanks for the comment. I'm not sure that's the issue though, because it's night and day different. One is crystal clear and the other (24p) is really jerky. It must be that my math is off somewhere because if the titles scroll nicely when I keyframe them on a 29.97 timeline, with the right speed the same titles should look nice on a 24p timeline, right? I think I'm just not fiby choppertown zack - Café LA 24p DVD - Scrolling Titles - OMG... - 14 years agoHey All, I've encountered a real conundrum and wanted to see if anyone had a solution... Here's the result we need: Simple scrolling end credits (Times font, or whatever) 82 seconds long 24p timeline in FCP...that will be output and encoded for a "24p" DVD. Here's the problem: We've been following the formula that says 82 sec @ 23.976 = 1966 frames 4 pixels per frame of moby choppertown zack - Café LA Teaser for our new film - The Harbortown Bobber - 14 years agoHere's the teaser to our newest film. I always get the answers to my questions, couldn't survive without Cafe La. Cheers Gang! COMING IN JULY 2009! From the directors of the award-winning motorcycle movies "Choppertown: the Sinners" and "Brittown" comes a new motorcycle fabrication documentary. Two years in the making, The Harbortown Bobber follows the ground-uby choppertown zack - Show and Tell Re: Convert 29.97 to 24p before or after editing? ProRes 24p capture - 15 years agoHey Jeff, Just a follow up to our discussion. Everything processed wonderfully in Compressor and now I have the 23.98 footage ready to edit. I added it to my 24p Prores 422 timeline and the audio is coming in unrendered and giving me the "beeping noise". Is that normal? Should I just do an apple-r mixdown?by choppertown zack - Café LA Re: Convert 29.97 to 24p before or after editing? ProRes 24p capture - 15 years agoThanks Jeff, seems logical. We're at 15:1 on this project so hopefully it won't take up too much space ... I guess I'll capture in ProRes @ 29.97, trim some fat off the master clips, run the whole thing through Compressor, import the 24p clips and start telling the story. Have a great weekend.by choppertown zack - Café LA Re: Convert 29.97 to 24p before or after editing? ProRes 24p capture - 15 years agoWell I guess the only sure bet is that it will go into a 24p DVD. If that's the case, would you suggest converting to 24p before or after editing? Regarding what kind of HD output, I guess it's impossible to know because when you do a show and then shop it to networks, they might all have different requirements. So I guess outputting a version in it's best native format would be best. It waby choppertown zack - Café LA Re: Convert 29.97 to 24p before or after editing? ProRes 24p capture - 15 years agoHey Shane, Thanks for the quick repsponse. Well if it gets picked up for TV, I'd want to deliver in HD. Otherwise I've been pretty happy with the 24p DVDs we've made, saves some room on the disc for more extras, etc. What are your thoughts?by choppertown zack - Café LA Convert 29.97 to 24p before or after editing? ProRes 24p capture - 15 years agoHey Gang, The subject line says it all...I'm capturing a project shot on an HV20 at 24p, it captures via ProRes to 29.97 but my eventual output will either be back to tape for TV broadcast or for 24p DVD. So... what do people recommend? Edit in a 29.97 timeline and then run trough Compressor at the end to drop the frames for 24p? or Convert all the captured footage to 24p with Compreby choppertown zack - Café LA Re: Our new teaser with workflow - props to Graeme and G Film Converter - 16 years agoHey J, Thanks for the comments. I used Flash 8 to do the encode. Imported my uncompressed Quicktime file in Flash, added the Steel Skin and exported as Flash 8. The key for us was using the 853x480 dimensions when we exported out of FCP, this creates a beautiful widescreen QT file. Used Swf-Object to embed it into the page.by choppertown zack - Show and Tell Our new teaser with workflow - props to Graeme and G Film Converter - 16 years agoHey Gang, Didn't know where to put this post because it covers a few areas...anyway we just released the new teaser for our upcoming British motorcycling film Brittown. We used the Nattress G Film Converter quite extensively to convert 640 x 480 helmetcam footage (60i) to 24p and mixed it with our 24p (2:3:3:2) XL2 footage on a 24p timeline. Output to h.264 Quicktime (853 x 480) and convertedby choppertown zack - Show and Tell Re: convert 29.97 footage for editing in 24p timeline - 17 years agowe shot at 24p Advanced to get a nice film look and will output on a 24p dvd as well as deliver digibeta for TV broadcast.by choppertown zack - Café LA Re: convert 29.97 footage for editing in 24p timeline - 17 years agograeme, after i run the converter will my footage be 24p or 24p A? all of my other native footage is 24 p A so i need it to match. thanks!by choppertown zack - Café LA Re: convert 29.97 footage for editing in 24p timeline - 17 years agothanks graeme, actually i just went and purchased your standards converter. any tips i should know before i try it? zby choppertown zack - Café LA Re: convert 29.97 footage for editing in 24p timeline - 17 years agoThanks Douglas, 1. On the Standards Converter it says that it only works with clips on FCP5 and later, so I should apply the conversion to a clip and then bring it down into my sequence? I also heard that you can capture your 29.97 footage as 24p with no pulldown which results in a 20% slowed down clip, which can then be sped up again to match the other clips... any one else tried this?by choppertown zack - Café LA convert 29.97 footage for editing in 24p timeline - 17 years agoHey Gang, this is probably both probably both a technical and aesthetic question... We got some amazing helmetcam footage last weekend (29.97 ntsc 3:2) and wanted to bring it into our 24p anamorphic timeline for eventual output on a widescreen 24p dvd. I guess my question is a 2 parter: 1. What's the best way to bring in the 29.97 footage? 2. What's do people think is the nicest way toby choppertown zack - Café LA Re: 16 x 9 anamorphic to letterbox - 17 years agoWhen we output to dvd we save our 16:9 sequence as a quicktime movie and import that into studio pro to burn the dvd (check the "letterbox 16:9" option in "display mode". dvd players automatically adjust for the letterboxing and add black bars on a 3:2 tv, but on a widescreen tv, it fills the screen perfectly. if you put the 16:9 sequence into the 3:2 sequence and then outputby choppertown zack - Café LA new 24p advanced questions - 17 years agoHey Everyone, I read some great posts and Ken Stone's recommendations regarding 24pA, but I've still got some questions coming up as we begin editing our new feature brit bike doc "Brittown". Here goes... We shot the entire project on our XL2 in 24pA anamorphic and then mistakenly captured footage for our first teaser in 24p Standard and edited it in a 29.97 timeline and output toby choppertown zack - Café LA Re: Our second DVD release "Choppertown: From The Vault" - 17 years agothanks for the comments derek, good points! also i fixed the link. zcby choppertown zack - Show and Tell Our second DVD release "Choppertown: From The Vault" - 17 years agoHey Everybody, Mike Horton suggested we post our new teaser, so here it is. "Choppertown: From The Vault" is the follow up to our debut "Choppertown: the Sinners", a feature doc about the Sinners motorcycle club. Neither film could have been completed without the LAFCPUG boards so thanks to all. FCP Studio (newest version) G5 DP Flash 8 encode (we output to an uncompreby choppertown zack - Show and Tell Re: done..here's the workflow i used - 17 years agothanks mike! posted!by choppertown zack - DVD Studio Pro done..here's the workflow i used - 17 years agoso i figured out a way to do it...not sure if it's the smoothest workaround in the world, but it works. i made backup copies of the "leader" alpha transition packet in the transition folder as well as the three "leader" packets in the templates folder. i adjusted the colors on the menu loop movie using fcp, saved it and imported it as an asset into my templates for my dvby choppertown zack - DVD Studio Pro update...getting closer - 17 years agowell i got into the transition folder which was saved as a "packet". then i altered the contents/resources/leader.mov file to the color i wanted. but when i put the new file into the transitions folder it is causing my dvdsp not to open (hangs). i feel like it has something to do with all those .plist extentioned files in there...hmm....by choppertown zack - DVD Studio Pro modifying the stock alpha transitions - 17 years agoHey Gang, It's been a while since I posted, always glad to read up on everyone's issues...learned a ton from you all. Well we're releasing our second DVD in a couple weeks and I'm trying to get crazy on the authoring this time...lol. I changed the color of the "Leader" menu background, but I have been unable to modify the Leader alpha transition so I can match the color. As it standby choppertown zack - DVD Studio Pro Re: FCP HD/G5/ output to Beta SP - 18 years agoWell I got a quote from an editing house, they will let me plug in my firewire drive into their system and output my self-contained QT movie straight to Beta SP for $300 bucks... They said the quality will be better than taking two miniDV tapes to a dubbing house and dubbing them into Beta SP. What do you guys think? ZCby choppertown zack - Café LA Re: FCP HD/G5/ output to Beta SP - 18 years agohey graeme, thanks for the explanation! 1. since the film is being projected/screened at a festival in Beta SP do you think it is worth it so render an 8bit timeline and take the whole computer to a post house for output? or do you still think the mini DV tapes dubbed to Beta Sp will be ok? 2. Since miniDV tapes are only 60 min in length, but our film is 93 mins... do we need to do anythingby choppertown zack - Café LA Re: FCP HD/G5/ output to Beta SP - 18 years agohey shane, thanks for the response. 1. what's a black burst generator? why do you recommend it so strongly? 2. if i imported mini-dv and edited everything in that format, isn't it already 8-bit? zcby choppertown zack - Café LA FCP HD/G5/ output to Beta SP - 18 years agoHey Gang, Please forgive this newbie-type post. I did a lot of searching on the Cafe' LA forum, but didn't find a simple discussion regarding my question... My film has been accepted to a couple of film festivals that don't accept DVD as a format for presentation. I shot and edited my film in DV and want to output to Beta SP. (I'm renting a Beta SP deck to do the recording.) It seems likeby choppertown zack - Café LA |
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