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Re: filmstrip look - 18 years agoThanks Nick. I was just about to suggest that the original poster take a look at the videostrip. Graemeby Graeme Nattress - Café LA Re: 2:3 pulldown from uncompressed SD? - 18 years agoI don't think so. I know a lot of people are using my Film to NTSC option in the Standards Converter plugin for such work. Graemeby Graeme Nattress - Café LA Re: HDV work flow suggestions? - 18 years agoPaul, you forgot to fivide by 8 because it's 25megabits not 25MegaBytes! It's about 12GB per hour, which is much more reasonable... 360GB Yes, I think FCP5 will be what you need also.... Graemeby Graeme Nattress - Café LA Re: What is FC expecting? - 18 years agoIt's never going to work in HDV mode as the whole workflow was never designed to work like this at all. With DV there are discrete frames you can pipe to the deck, have it decode and be sent on it's way to the monitor. With HDV you have to have a stream of compressed MPEG2, so it can't work in the same way at all. AFAIK, the only real solution at the moment is an expensive HD card like a Decklinby Graeme Nattress - Café LA Re: workflow from Betacam SP PAL to DVD - 18 years agoWell, if you've edited DV, for instance, renders to DV do some compression and will reduce image quality slightly. If things are cuts only, then there is no image quality loss, but if you do any effects, then before final render, setting the timeline to uncompressed will make things look better. Then export that uncompressed movie (I'd never recommend exporting direct to compressor as it's slow aby Graeme Nattress - Café LA Re: editing 24p material - 18 years ago24pA is also great for making a 24p DVD. See my article at Ken's site on 24p. Graemeby Graeme Nattress - Café LA Re: 24fps Image Sequence output to Digibeta NTSC - 18 years agoFirst I'd use quicktime pro to make a movie from the targa sequence. Import the image sequence and set frame rate to 23.98fps, as this is the NTSC video equivalent to 24fps. Set the video export codec to whatever your Pinnacle hardware uses. You can now add 3:2 pulldown in either of two ways. As you say, if you have after effects you can use that to add 3:2 pulldown, or if you don't you can useby Graeme Nattress - Café LA Re: Frame by Frame airbrush feature - 18 years agoMake them back into a movie using Quicktime Pro's import image sequence feature. Graemeby Graeme Nattress - Café LA Re: Interlacing problem - 18 years agoField order is codec related. What type of video are you capturing how? 8bit uncompressed PAL is upper, whereas PAL DV is lower. You've got to capture the same format as the video. When you say interlacing issues, are you seeing a strong sttutter / flicker on movement, as that would indeed indicate you've flipped field order somewhere. Graemeby Graeme Nattress - Café LA Re: Frame by Frame airbrush feature - 18 years agoYou could just export an image sequence, use photoshop or cinepaint and then make a movie back from the still frames. Graemeby Graeme Nattress - Café LA Re: workflow from Betacam SP PAL to DVD - 18 years agoA lot of computer DVD players will de-interlace on-the-fly for you, so that's another option to consider. There's literally no advantage to capturing DV as uncompressed. You might want to consider rendering the final output before making your DVD uncompressed as that will eliminate a DV compression, but again, the benefits are negligible as DVD is much lower quality than DV. Taking in BetaSP dirby Graeme Nattress - Café LA Re: Pinnacle CineWave CLASS ACTION SUIT - 18 years agoPinnacle have had an awful habit of dropping any support at all for products once they're no longer flavour of the month. They did that to me with a DC30 card, and they've done it to countless other people. After my experience with that, and of reveiwing a Targa card for a magazine where even with direct help from Pinnacle, it would never quite work as described, I would never, ever recommend a Pby Graeme Nattress - Café LA Re: Outputting to tape - 18 years agoJoey: "which means MORE COLOR INFORMATION ON THE TAPE - which means a cleaner, sharper, more colorful & higher contrast image." Totally incorrect, I'm afraid. There is absolutely zero picture difference between miniDV, DV, DVCAM and DVCpro. There's no more information recorded on tape on DVCAM over DV, you don't get a cleaner image, a sharper iamge, you don't get more colour and yoby Graeme Nattress - Café LA Re: UPGRADING THE XSERVE RAID - 18 years agoIt's not a rule, it's just that ALL CAPS is pretty hard to read. If you want people to help you, then it's best to write in such a way that makes it people to read. Like many "rules", it has a very practical basis, so I don't think it's inane at all. It's just like the "rules" of writing in sentences, and using punctuation and paragraphs. That said, going back to the dawn ofby Graeme Nattress - Café LA Re: UPGRADING THE XSERVE RAID - 18 years agoRon, please don't post questions written all in CAPS - it makes them hard to read and looks like you're shouting. I would think it's possible to put the drives from the 400GB version into the 250GB version, but I've not heard of 1GB drives - I don't think they're made that big, and I have no idea about them needing to be "special" drives or not. I think, for cost effectiveness and relby Graeme Nattress - Café LA Re: cliche "flash" transition - 18 years agoThere's a great film flash transition as part of Film Effects www.nattress.com - I think you'll like it. Graemeby Graeme Nattress - Café LA Re: using an EDL for other purposes... ?? - 18 years agoI was just about to recommend them! Great stuff at spherico. Graemeby Graeme Nattress - Café LA Re: Viewing HD on an SD monitor possible? - 18 years agoYes, blacks are not the best on LCD, but blacks on CRT suffer when there's an abundance of highlights on the screen as they bleed over. I guess what I'm getting at is that all monitoring technologies have their weak points - you've just got to use what is best for the purpose. As for the manufacture of CRTs - A Sony manager told me they are not making any more at all. Any in the supply chain andby Graeme Nattress - Café LA Re: Interlacing issues - 18 years agoThere's probably nothing wrong. Computer monitors are not interlaced, video monitors are. When you view the edit back through your camera and to your video monitor it should look great again. Graemeby Graeme Nattress - Café LA Re: thank you graeme - 18 years agoThanks guys. Your words are much appreciated. Graemeby Graeme Nattress - Café LA Re: Viewing HD on an SD monitor possible? - 18 years agoI must admit that I also detest plasma displays. They seem to be the worst of the bunch for picture qualilty, and they completely exaggerate any artifacts in the signal and add their own on top. Ouch. Graemeby Graeme Nattress - Café LA Re: Viewing HD on an SD monitor possible? - 18 years agoDLP is for general viewing, movies, seeing how effects work on the big screen for my scaling R&D, things like that. I try to use a multitude of display technologies for watching my algorithms to make sure they don't clash. I must admit, that I used to love CRTs, but I'm really going off them. I keep seeing all their geometry problems, flaring highlights etc, and for HD, they just look soft aby Graeme Nattress - Café LA Re: OT 4K Digital Projector - 18 years agoThe 4k demonstation Sony had running at NAB was very impressive indeed - but then again, so was the 3D HD stuff Panasonic was showing. But quite frankly, around here it's hardly worth going out to the cinema due to the bad quality of film projection. I just wait for the DVD and watch it at home on my DLP projector and 80" screen - that's nice. And no noisey kids behind you, although Megan iby Graeme Nattress - Café LA Re: Viewing HD on an SD monitor possible? - 18 years agoWell, I'm using a small CRT, 80" 16:9 screen from a DLP projector and LCD over HDLink. It's pretty hard to compre them all - they're all so different. Graemeby Graeme Nattress - Café LA Re: Graphics Card Question - 18 years agoX800 is great. Really enjoying it. Graemeby Graeme Nattress - Café LA Re: OT - 24p versus 29.97? - 18 years agoNattress Film Effects does two main things - convert 60i video to 24p (so if you shoot 24p you don't need this bit) and it does tonal corrections to make it appear more filmic (which works on all video). Graemeby Graeme Nattress - Café LA Re: Steve and Jill Martin welcome Baby #4 - 18 years agoExcellent news. Congrats to all! Graeme, Wendy and Meganby Graeme Nattress - Café LA Re: 10bit 720x486 to DV NTSC 720x480 - 18 years agoMake sure you check the "motion" tab and make sure it's not shrinking the video - you should just be loosing the 6 pixels, not squashing them in to fit. Graemeby Graeme Nattress - Café LA Re: Viewing HD on an SD monitor possible? - 18 years agoThe Decklink cards will do that great. I'm using the component output in parallel to the HD output which is going to the HDLink to a 23" Cinema Display. Working great. Graemeby Graeme Nattress - Café LA |
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