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Re: WTF computer WTF ?!?!?! NO TIME ! - 18 years agoTurn on high quality scaling in FCP5, or in FCP4, you're going to have to progressively blur the image the more you zoom it in. Graemeby Graeme Nattress - Café LA Re: PAL to NTSC clean conversion? - 18 years agoSeems that FCP5 is not liking nested out of time sequences at all. Argh Apple! Graemeby Graeme Nattress - Café LA Re: Xserve RAID - 18 years agoThe XSR comes ready to format raid 5 on each half. When it's done, use the disk utility to join them together RAID0, and hence get RAID50 - works great here. Graemeby Graeme Nattress - Café LA Re: Apple, why Intel, not AMD? - 18 years agoI think a good mac bought today will still be a good mac in 5 years time. I see no reason to hold off a purchase today. With video editing, the technology is moving still very rapidly, and a good mac might not last as long if you want to stay at the top of the pile - say 3 years, which will more than bridge the gap to the new Intel Macs, and indeed, PPC Macs should still be very supported in 3 yeby Graeme Nattress - Café LA re: Mixing 29.97fps footage with 24p - 18 years agoYou can do it with Film Effects - but if you're editing on 23.98fps timeline, you'd have to use Film Effects to do the 60i to 24p, then remove the pulldown in Cinema Tools. Much easier is to use the Standards Conversion package which will leave you with 23.98fps media off the bat. Graemeby Graeme Nattress - Café LA Re: Apple, why Intel, not AMD? - 18 years agoApple tend to write accelleration libraries which, currently, have underlying PPC Altivec and SSE3 (I think) Intel code in them. Indeed, the hard part of vectorising some code is not the implementation in Altivec or SSE3, but the figuring out how to do it as vectors in the first place. I don't see this, therefore as a roadblock to FCP or other pro app being moved over to Intel. It might not haveby Graeme Nattress - Café LA Re: DV Feature Film project - 18 years agoFive times longer?? When I tested it, it took over 35 times longer!!! Yes, PAL 25p to NTSC can work via the 4% slowdown method. This is not too good for complex audio though, but it looks nice :-) Graemeby Graeme Nattress - Café LA Re: format for broadcast - 18 years agoSet your timeline to uncompressed 10bit 4:2:2, 720x486, re-render and export quicktime, make movie self contained. Graemeby Graeme Nattress - Café LA Re: Color Correcting software - 18 years agoFinal Touch is also 32bit float. Nice program, but a very different workflow. It's well worth checking out. Graemeby Graeme Nattress - Café LA Re: Which is better? Sony pd170 or panasonic ag-dx100 - 18 years agoThey are both excellent cameras. The PD170 is classic sony, very good low light etc. The DVX100 has better manual zoom ring and focus controls, probably better audio too, and offers 24p and 30p modes as well as standard 60i. Both work great in FCP too! Graemeby Graeme Nattress - Café LA Re: Hey Mike (LAFCPUG news letter) - 18 years agoCraig - good stuff there! I really agree that price drops will become necessary as less and less people buy new macs. But I don't know - they never did so in the end of the G4 years? Graemeby Graeme Nattress - Café LA Re: Hey Mike (LAFCPUG news letter) - 18 years agoBuying an Intel Mac straight away will actually be a harder transition than keeping PPC, as any new mac app will be "dual compiled" and hence run natively on both, but old apps might not run best on Intel Mac. That said, if you computer works today editing, and makes money today editing, it will still be making money editing when the Intel Macs are on sale. I do worry about the Osbourby Graeme Nattress - Café LA Re: standards conversion in FCP5 - 18 years agoWell, if you set the qualilty settings to full, the result is very nice, but it took me over 35 times as long to render my 8 second clips as it does with my plugin - ouch. To me, that's totally unusably slow, and I'll continue to use my plugin myself because I can't afford to wait that long for a conversion. At the lower settings, the frame blending was awful. At lower de-interlace settings, theby Graeme Nattress - Café LA Re: Hey Mike (LAFCPUG news letter) - 18 years agoOf course, the grass is always greener on the other side. For 99% of mac users, what processor is inside their computer is utterly irrelevent. For 90% of developers, it's irellevent. The ONLY real issue that Apple and it's users have is the implementation of new processors. By announcing a year early and getting dev machines out there, Apple will minimise transition issues. Rosetta is not tby Graeme Nattress - Café LA Re: 364 Days - 18 years agoFor a lot of people, max streams are limited by their hard drives. Faster multiple processors will really help, but so will a move to PCI-express which will better allow us to use the GPU for effects. Graemeby Graeme Nattress - Café LA Re: It's Official - Intel Inside - 18 years agoThe major problem with one app over two platforms is the differences in APIs - ie, coding for both the Windows and Mac OS X APIs. In this case, your code is for the same API - cocoa / carbon, and there are only two places where things are going to be really different: Altivec vectorisation & endian-ness The vectorisation problem is an interesting one, because currently GCC, the compiler weby Graeme Nattress - Café LA Re: check out the hvx200 - 18 years agoAnd there will be hard drive storage solutions available probably at time of camera release from 3rd parties. DVCproHD, all things being equal, looks better than HDV and is easier to edit. The HVX200 promises to do 720p24,30,60, 1080i60, 1080p24,30, and variframe recording at 720p from 4 to 60fps. That will make it practically universal in terms of HD recording formats. Graemeby Graeme Nattress - Café LA Re: OT: More fuel on the rumor of IBM - 18 years agoThe issue is not what hardware Apple computers run on - it's quite frankyl irrelevent, but how any transition from one type of hardware to another type is handled. It seems that there are plenty of options and technologies with regards to running compiled apps on non-native processors without taking much of an emulation hit, so perhaps, if Apple are going this route they have something up theirby Graeme Nattress - Café LA Re: OT: More fuel on the rumor of IBM - 18 years agoIt seems that all the "news" sites that have published "news" are really re-publishing the same rumour over and over. That they all say it, is not corroberation, but copying. That doesn't make the rumour less or more true, because with the way that the articles are written we don't even know what the rumour really is, and I suspect that if such a rumour would be true that theby Graeme Nattress - Café LA Re: OT: More fuel on the rumor of IBM - 18 years agoOr smokescreen for WWDC new releases, or just to make sure everyone follows the news on monday. Either way it's interesting. Graemeby Graeme Nattress - Café LA Re: OT: More fuel on the rumor of IBM - 18 years agoSure, but why would they? Graemeby Graeme Nattress - Café LA Re: OT: More fuel on the rumor of IBM - 18 years agoThe issue is that it would mean over a year of zero sales of computers for Apple. A year of zero software sales too. Do you think Apple shareholders would agree to that?? The only way Apple could do such a transition and make it seamless is to have all the hardware ready to run and a massive team of programmers giving free support to all developers to port the software over. And that's just not gby Graeme Nattress - Café LA Re: 0 VS 7.5 ire REMIND ME! - 18 years agoI think "interference" is a bi-directional concept, in that if two signals interfere with each other, you can say A interferes with B, or B interferes with A, but because, in this case, audio was the "old" signal and the color "new", the new interferes with the old, as in it's introduction of the new signal that causes problems. The fact is that either on their own wby Graeme Nattress - Café LA Re: 0 VS 7.5 ire REMIND ME! - 18 years agoKoz, it's not the transmitter that needed 7.5IRE, but the reciever to allow it to discriminate easier between black and the signal that trigger flyback I think. Basically, pushing the blacks up put a buffer in to make the control signals easier to notice, and to make sure black in the picture wouldn't confuse the reciever. It was totally unnecessary very early on, and should have been ditched wayby Graeme Nattress - Café LA Re: 0 VS 7.5 ire REMIND ME! - 18 years agoAlthough why the USA didn't ditch 7.5IRE in the 80s like Japan did I'll never know. Then again, you only have to look at their botched HD introduction to see that they couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery... Graemeby Graeme Nattress - Café LA Re: 0 VS 7.5 ire REMIND ME! - 18 years agoJoshua - you're mixing things up there. The scale of 0% to 100% in FCP has nothing to do with, and bears no relation to the 0IRE to 100IRE scale in analogue video, however, that does not mean that the two scales will not match numbers with each other in particular circumstances, but that has more to do with humans numbering scales from 0 to 100 than anything else. Your DSR-11 deck is either PALby Graeme Nattress - Café LA Re: 60fps Interlaced to 30 fps Progressive - 18 years agoYes, capture both as normal NTSC 29.97fps. You don't have to put the different footage on different tracks, although it might be easier to do this to spot which is which later on. Just apply a de-interlace filter, or one of mine to the clip (on mine set to 30p). You can get further help with Film Effects here, or email me personally at graeme@natby Graeme Nattress - Café LA Re: prosumer HD video camera - 18 years agoBut JVC have a new camera coming out that is so much better than their previous one, and looks to be very good indeed. Might not have total FCP compatibility though because of it's 24p mode. The FX1 and Z1 are fine affordable HDV cameras. Also, Sony are doing some cheaper ones that look great too if money is an issue. Graemeby Graeme Nattress - Café LA Re: 60fps Interlaced to 30 fps Progressive - 18 years agoBut 60i is 29.97 standard 29.97fps NTSC - it's just another name for it. You capture totally as normal NTSC. Same for 30p, it's still standard 29.97fps NTSC, just has a different visual feel. Yes, you de-interlace, if you want, your 60i when it's on the timeline. As for which to use, I'll obviously recommend my Film Effects tools, but there are others too. I'd download demos from everyone and seby Graeme Nattress - Café LA Re: 0 VS 7.5 ire REMIND ME! - 18 years agoIRE is for analogue video. DV is digital. There is no IRE in digital video. FCP does not know, and does not care about IRE as it only works on digital video. The only things in your system that care about IRE are analogue to digital and digital to analogue converters. It is the settings of these devices that determine black leves in your system. In FCP, your blacks should always be at 0%, and whby Graeme Nattress - Café LA |
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