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Re: Slightly OT: Linear Gamma - 15 years agoFCP doesn't really have the GUI controls to do a really nice curve editor. Well, you could with FXPlug but I had to write a custom GUI, which isn't too bad, but then you can't use the keyframing stuff, or something like that... I remember there being some gotcha. Why off colours in super-white? Well, your camera is probably close to clipping. Clipping can look ok as long as R, G and B clip togby Graeme Nattress - Café LA Re: Technical question about 23.98 to 29.97 - 15 years agoAs far as I know, the Kona can be set to add 3:2 pulldown in real time upon output. Graemeby Graeme Nattress - Café LA Re: OT: D-SLR Movies... - 15 years agofor footage. Doesn't stand up as well when it's full size. The compression is quite artifacty. For jello: Anyone tried to colour correct this h.264 stuff yet?? Is it as bad to do so as we'd guess? Graemeby Graeme Nattress - Café LA Re: Making a 23.98 progressive SD DVD from an original QT file - 15 years agoThere is n 24p standard for DVD. There is 25fps for PAL, and 29.97fps for NTSC. That said, there is such thing as a 24p DVD, but it's just a special case of 29.97fps where, upon compression for MPEG2, the 24p media gets compressed to MPEG with special field repeat tags added to the MPEG stream so that the 24p gets compressed as is for efficiency, but it remains 29.97fps compatible. It's thoseby Graeme Nattress - Café LA Re: OT: Pink Floyd founder Richard Wright dies - 15 years agoI like all their solo work, but yes, they really all shined together. Both in solo and group form, they make music that has enough depth to not just survive, but thrive on repeated listening. Graemeby Graeme Nattress - Café LA Re: OT: Pink Floyd founder Richard Wright dies - 15 years agoAnd Rick Wright's solo work was great too! He was awesome on the latest Gilmour concert DVD that I just watched last week. He's going to live on for a long time through his music, but he'll be surely missed. Graemeby Graeme Nattress - Café LA Re: does anyone... - 15 years agoKernel Panics can be software also. There's an issue with hard crashes when you send a lot of data over a wifi airport link, for instance, that can cause a hard crash. Nasty. Graemeby Graeme Nattress - Café LA Re: Nattress Plug-ins - 15 years ago/Library/Application Support/Final Cut Pro System Support/Plugins Graemeby Graeme Nattress - Café LA Re: Nattress Plug-ins - 15 years agoemail me? I'll send you versions that might work better. DOn't double click on them though - just copy them into the FCP folder. Double clicking brings up that message because FCP doesn't use them that way. Graemeby Graeme Nattress - Café LA Re: OT: D-SLR Movies... - 15 years agoYup, big jelly. RED is more of a video DSLR than this is, as, of course, the D90 doesn't do RAW. Times are a changing... Graemeby Graeme Nattress - Café LA Re: (OT) Forget RED, use webcam to shoot impressive footage - 15 years agoYou love render times eh? And what happens when you get an actor in shot? Graemeby Graeme Nattress - Café LA Re: Using UK mac book pro in Canada? - 15 years agoCanada electricity is same as USA. Macbook power adapters work internationally. I've used UK macs in Canada and Canada macs in UK. All you need is a plug adapter to change the size and shape of your prongs. You can get a simple cheap adapter (usually available at the airport if you can't find one locally) or fancy Apple ones that plug into your power adapter. Graemeby Graeme Nattress - Café LA Re: PAL Capturing - 15 years agoI know when switching between PAL and NTSC, a good reboot of FCP and / or the deck is sometimes needed. But you're not switching PAL and NTSC, just over from HDV to DV. Go to the easy preset - check that that is correct. That's the first place. Graemeby Graeme Nattress - Café LA Re: OT: anyone have a good wrist brace to recommend? - 15 years agoI use a wacom for everything (other than the odd game on a mouse). I use it for everything you'd normally mouse for - email, word processing, programming, editing etc. etc. etc. Graemeby Graeme Nattress - Café LA Re: OT: anyone have a good wrist brace to recommend? - 15 years agoPretty quick, actually. Wouldn't be without one now. They go down to the size of a mousepad, so I don't find they eat desk space too much. Graemeby Graeme Nattress - Café LA Re: OT: anyone have a good wrist brace to recommend? - 15 years agoGet a wacom tablet. You won't regret it. Worked great for me for mousing pain. Graemeby Graeme Nattress - Café LA Re: "COLOR" VS DA VINCI - 15 years agoThe main difference would be real time performance. Actual colour correction is probably identical in "quality". Graemeby Graeme Nattress - Café LA Re: Filter/Effect to Soften Look of Video? - 15 years agoMy Film Effects isn't free, but would surely help. The "free" things that work well are deinterlacing, placing a blurred copy of the video over itself and blending it back in with, say, screen blending mode. Also, a bit of 3way color correction can work wonders - try crushing the blacks just a little bit.by Graeme Nattress - Café LA Re: high gain-visual noise problem - 15 years agoMy noise reduction plugins for Color can also work well for this.by Graeme Nattress - Café LA Re: Want to make 24p slo-mo from 60i footage. - 15 years agoThanks Shane. Always glad to explain what hidden features are in there! Graemeby Graeme Nattress - Café LA Re: Want to make 24p slo-mo from 60i footage. - 15 years agoI have a plugin, G Map Frames that is designed for this. It's part of Standards Conversion. Basically, it extracts each field, and plays it out to a full frame at whatever speed the timeline is set to, so 60i goes to 24p with a 40% slowdown. The end results can be very good indeed. Cinema Tools won't help here. It will take your 60i to 48i, but then you're still stuck with the fields needingby Graeme Nattress - Café LA Re: export 1080i for the web - 16 years agoFor 1080i for internet, I'd de-interlace then scale it down in FCP. If you see any aliasing / edgyness, do a very small gaussian blur before the downscale to help it. Darker images tend to look more saturated, so if you're monitoring in FCP and watching elsewhere with a different gamma, you may notice the slight darkening as a boost of saturation. Graemeby Graeme Nattress - Café LA Re: DVC Pro vs Mini DV - 16 years ago4:2:0 is not compression per se, but just reduction of resolution. I'm saying that: say we have a 1920x1080 image, in Y'CbCr, you should get a better image by compressing the chroma 4 times as much with your lossy compression than reducing it's resolution by a factor of 4 by going to 4:2:0. Both should produce the same data rate, but I'd think the first option would look better. However, it miby Graeme Nattress - Café LA Re: Graeme Nattress' conversion software HD to PAL - 16 years agoThanks for the info! Graemeby Graeme Nattress - Café LA Re: DVC Pro vs Mini DV - 16 years ago4:1:1 is a better choice for interlaced material than 4:2:0, but PAL has a lower vertical chroma resolution because of the PAL method of maintaining colour fidelity over broadcast, making 4:2:0 a more perceptually relevant method. For progressive video, 4:2:0 is superior to 4:1:1, but 4:1:1 is much less prone to bother on interlace material. Of course, these days, there's no need for 4:x:x atby Graeme Nattress - Café LA Re: PAL-M in Final Cut Pro? - 16 years agoAFAIK, just as all production work for SECAM is done in PAL, all production work for PAL-M is done in NTSC. I don't think SECAM or PAL-M "exist" in the digital world. Graemeby Graeme Nattress - Café LA Re: To dV or not to dV - 16 years agoDV keys badly not because of the chroma sampling, but because the chroma is most often not reconstructed "properly" but left looking boxy. That is the "fault" of the codec. However, it will help the DV codec have better generational quality. Graemeby Graeme Nattress - Café LA Re: To dV or not to dV - 16 years agoChroma subsampling notation is indeed relative, and there are "gotchas" like HDV luma resolution being 1440x1080 and DVCproHD being 1280x1080, and HDCAM being 1440x1080, but HDV is 4:2:2, DVCProHD 4:2:2 and HDCAM 3:1:1. It's now a totally abused notation. It's also not a "colour space". Please don't say 4:2:2 colour space. It's not, never has been, never will be. Please.by Graeme Nattress - Café LA Re: How do you upscale (slightly) your SD ? - 16 years agoYou know, the in-built scaling (if you set it to high quality) in FCP isn't that bad at all..... Graemeby Graeme Nattress - Café LA Re: DV NTSC proportions..... - 16 years agoYou should keep DV 480 as the only way to get it to 486 is by putting black pixels top and bottom, which FCP will do for you if you put DV in a 486 timeline. Be careful not to let it get scaled to fit as this ruins quality. If you're doing work on it in Color, say fixing the chroma sampling, there's a benefit to outputting uncompressed, also to avoid codec recompression. However, I don't see aby Graeme Nattress - Color |
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