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Your basic troubleshooting and discussion forum for all things Final Cut Pro X. If you are having issues with FCP 7 and below, post it in Cafe LA.
Re: 60fps Interlaced to 30 fps Progressive - 19 years ago
60i or 60 interlaced fields per second and 30p, or 30 progressive frames per second are really just different ways of looking at 29.97fps NTSC video. They both have the same frame rate, but in 60i, each field that makes up the image is from a different point in time, 1/60th a second apart, but in 30p, both the fields that make up a frame are from the same instant in time. This gives 30p and 60iby Graeme Nattress - Café LA
Re: Porn Color Attributes - 19 years ago
Koz, email me some footage, or stick it on an FTP for me, PhotoJPEG75% codec for small size and good quality and I'll write a funky chroma v and h offset filter for you. Graemeby Graeme Nattress - Café LA
Re: Alarming download policy from Apple! - 19 years ago
Indeed they should not use a Dongle. Pirates don't have to worry about loosing dongles or that kind of thing - real, legit users do. I remember waiting a month for a new After Effects dongle from Adobe on upgrading my mac from ADB to USB ports. In the meantime I used a crack so that I could continue to use my legit software. Every review I wrote of AE I mentioned the stupid dongle, that was crackby Graeme Nattress - Café LA
Re: How to Uninstall Tiger and return to my normal enviroment - 19 years ago
We've all been broke at one time or another. I certainly have sympathy for that situation, but your friend made an informed choice to use pirated software, full well knowing that there could be consequences for that action. There are plenty of people who read and help others on this forum who can't even afford a G5 with Panther or Tiger, who are running on old hardware and would dearly love to beby Graeme Nattress - Café LA
Re: How to Uninstall Tiger and return to my normal enviroment - 19 years ago
Use credit card to buy legit FCP. Or buy it for him. You won't get flames here, just a polite answer - we don't help pirates in any way shape or form. And that's the same response you'll get on any of the major FCP forums too. Graemeby Graeme Nattress - Café LA
Re: How to Uninstall Tiger and return to my normal enviroment - 19 years ago
John, I think it's time for him to go to the local computer store, and spend the cash on FCP. If he's working on a job, he should be using legit software. You wouldn't steal a computer to do a job with, so why should you steal the software. Your friend will not get any sympathy on this forum. Graemeby Graeme Nattress - Café LA
Re: Orange Pixelation - 19 years ago
"does it mean worse colour response?" No. Only lower chroma resolution. "less faithful reproductions of what was shot?" Only in terms of detail, not in the colours themselves. "Does it mean a narrower range of colours?" Not at all. Just detail. What effects the colours themselves is the 8bit v 10bit, where 10bit cameras like DigiBeta can record a wider dynamicby Graeme Nattress - Café LA
Re: Orange Pixelation - 19 years ago
No, what you're seeing is DV chroma sampling. Read this for more info: Basically, it means it may look bad in FCP, but if you view it back through your deck or camera into a monitor, it will look fine. Graemeby Graeme Nattress - Café LA
Re: FCS HDV XSAN - 19 years ago
But he wants FIVE computers to access the media. That's a perfect place to put in Xsan. Yes, you need a separate GigE network for your metadata. That leaves you with basically airport / wireless or a second ethernet network for internet connection / normal file sharing etc. HDV is the same data rate as DV, so 5 users should be fine, but I'd be thinking about another XSR if you want to take it anby Graeme Nattress - Café LA
Re: cutting 24p on FCP HD - 19 years ago
Your capture settings are wrong. There's a preset for 24pAdvanced, which is what you should use for 2:3:3:2, and then you need to make sure the pulldown gets removed and the media is now at 23.98fps and then you need to make sure you're editing on a 23.98fps timeline. For more info. Graemeby Graeme Nattress - Café LA
Re: Stills on Final Cut Express - 19 years ago
And FCP5 solves any aliassing issues you may have once saw, and for downscaling, having the correct amount of gaussian blurr added (in FCP <5) works just as good. Graemeby Graeme Nattress - Café LA
Re: Jump To Uncompressed... - 19 years ago
But FCP is fairly clever. Even if you've got nested edits and lots of filters on many clips to make up en effect, there's only ever one decompression (for each piece of media) and one recompression back to the timeline codec. You can't really get much better than that for native editing. Graemeby Graeme Nattress - Café LA
Re: Jump To Uncompressed... - 19 years ago
Rendering DV as uncompressed can reduce damage, but you don't have to capture the DV uncompressed to render it uncompressed. Graemeby Graeme Nattress - Café LA
Re: Jump To Uncompressed... - 19 years ago
Clay is right. There's zero advantage to uncompressed capture unless you have the money for a deck with SDI, a SDI capture card, big drives and don't have time to render the DV as uncompressed with a smoothing filter on it at the end of production. A smoothing on the chroma is indeed the only difference you'll get from an uncompressed SDI capture over a firewire one. For 75% of video, it's probabby Graeme Nattress - Café LA
Re: more good things in FCP5... - 19 years ago
The new scaling is what FCP should have been using from day one! And we've only had to wait, how many years is it now, for it :-) Graemeby Graeme Nattress - Café LA
Re: Canon XL2 vs. Panasonic AG-DVX100A - 19 years ago
A real B/W viewfinder is sharper, but these days you've got a colour & B/W viewfinder, which really offers no higher resolution in B/W than it does in colour. Nobody puts CRTs in viewfinders anymore... So that's one to watch out for. As for the PDX10 - great little camera, super widescreen, very nice picture, but poor low light. If you don't need the low light and can get a good price on it,by Graeme Nattress - Café LA
Re: Stupid mistake with LP mode - 19 years ago
That's why I said "practically" identical. Tracking IS and issue with LP (and why they even put it on even semi-pro cameras I don't know) and should never be used. I think if you can get the same camera back and dub to DV SP, it should play back great and you should not loose any quality. Graemeby Graeme Nattress - Café LA
Re: Stupid mistake with LP mode - 19 years ago
A DV over firewire LP to SP dub will in fact look practically identical. As Koz points out, LP playback may be problematic without playing it back on the original camera. The deck in this just doesn't support LP, hence it's lack of playback. You should be able to get a dub done to tape in SP to use as your new master, and you should be able to get a clone timecode too if needed. Graemeby Graeme Nattress - Café LA
Re: DVD player auto-set - 19 years ago
I guess what I'm getting at is that if they've ever played a Hollywood DVD correctly, then their player is set correctly for anamorphic playback. I don't feel that you should be spending extra time rendering when the player itself will letterbox or pan and scan (centre crop) the image for you at the preference of the viewer. I'd be very curious to hear how you do get on if you try your experimentby Graeme Nattress - Café LA
Re: 16:9 issue needs demystifying. - 19 years ago
If they don't see it correctly on their old TV, then it's only due to a mis-setting in the DVD player that they own, not in your authoring. All Hollywood movies that are widescreen as encoded anamorphically. Graemeby Graeme Nattress - Café LA
Re: Need to output to Beta! - 19 years ago
If the effects and lower 3rds etc. look bad on DV, then they'll look bad when broadcast even if you render them uncompressed out to DigiBeta. If they don't look bad on DV, then there's no harm in getting the DV dubbed to BetaSP. The only way you can really preserve 99.9% of the uncompressed quality is to go direct out to Digibeta, or to preserve 99%, go out to DVCpro50. Graemeby Graeme Nattress - Café LA
Re: Cheap prices on Cinelook? - 19 years ago
Why not try my Film Effects plugins for FCP instead. They'll do everything that the others you mention do, but at a fraction of the price. There's a free demo at www.nattress.com If all you want is grain though, just put the noise generator on a layer above your video and set a blending mode. Quick, easy and free. If you want a much more realistic 24p look, download my plugin and see. Graemeby Graeme Nattress - Café LA
Re: Distributed Encoding? - 19 years ago
That's good info to know. Thanks. I find the FW networking is great for linking two machines together to copy files, especially as a lot of older machines didn't have gigE. Graemeby Graeme Nattress - Café LA
Re: Distributed Encoding? - 19 years ago
You could also put a firewire cable between the macs and use that as a network - it's as fast as GigE. Graemeby Graeme Nattress - Café LA
Re: after effects workflow - 19 years ago
Animation codec is only lossless RGB 4:4:4 when set to 100%. Any setting less than that will introduce artifacts. Uncompressed 4:2:2 works great, and is Y'CbCr native, although After Effects isn't. PhotoJPEG100% is 4:4:4 RGB, and is lightly compressed, making it a very useful codec as the quality is awesome, but the file sizes are small. PhotoJPEG75% is 4:2:2 Y'CbCr, lightly compressed, again,by Graeme Nattress - Café LA
Re: NTSC to PAL - 19 years ago
Yes, you've got to convert from NTSC to PAL before you can make a PAL DVD. take a look at my converter at www.nattress.com Graemeby Graeme Nattress - Café LA
Re: looking for new dv camera & projector - 19 years ago
PD170 also records DV, so that's 60 minutes of recording identical quality to DVCAM. If you need longer, get a DSR11 or DSR25 and plug it into the camera over firewire, and record miniDV onto a big DVCAM tape for hours and hours of recording.... Graemeby Graeme Nattress - Café LA
Re: Film Look? - 19 years ago
Thanks Geoffrey! Any chance of sending me so images from what you're working on so that I can see them. I always like to see what users come up with. Graemeby Graeme Nattress - Café LA
Re: Capturing: Does it take a big one? - 19 years ago
The MPEG2 used in HDV is about 2.5 times as efficient as the DV codec, but it's compressing 4 times as many pixels. This means you get high def, but if you look at the image too closely, it's actually lower quality than DV, but because it's high def, any artifacts appear 4 times smaller, so are a lot harder to see unless you blow it up really big, which would be bigger than you can blow up DV becby Graeme Nattress - Café LA
Re: Film Look? - 19 years ago
You don't need to look any further than my Film Effects plugins for Final Cut Pro. You can check out the free demo at www.nattress.com. You'll get the best tech support in the business and really enjoy them. Graemeby Graeme Nattress - Café LA
