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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: Uncompressed 10-bit SD file - 15 years ago
I've never found it matters too much where it comes in the stack. Just having it there really help though! Graemeby Graeme Nattress - Café LA
Re: Uncompressed 10-bit SD file - 15 years ago
Useful thing to remember though is that if you can make the titles look good in DV, they'll stand up to practically anything. On the other hand, design them in an uncompressed environment, and you may get the shock later on when you see it on TV, or on DVD, or a web movie, that the titles just don't work... Think about it... Graemeby Graeme Nattress - Café LA
Re: Pal to NTSC - 15 years ago
The CT trick works great. Just be sure to de-interlace your 50i PAL to 25p if necessary first, then you'll get a practically perfect, if 4% too slow 23.98fps movie on the output, and it's fast, as it's just adjusting a bit of quicktime metadata. For music videos or sound pitch conscious material, you may have to re-time the audio so that it does the same 4% too slow, but without altering the pby Graeme Nattress - Café LA
Re: Uncompressed 10-bit SD file - 15 years ago
Yes, doing a chroma smoothing on 4:1:1 DV will help because DVD is 4:2:0 and those two clash horribly if you don't help it along a bit. Graemeby Graeme Nattress - Café LA
Re: OT: When RAID 5s aren't safe... - 15 years ago
That's not a Graemeism, but it could be. The appropriate Graemism is "A backup in time saves the hard drive". Just been copying my Drobos over to a bunch of hard drives, then mirroring those hard drives.... Multiple copies, multiple redundancy. Graemeby Graeme Nattress - Café LA
Re: Moray Effect on still images with motion effect - 15 years ago
Re-sizing the images before-hand to make them "just" big enough for the level of zoom you're going for really helps. FCP doesn't cope well scaling down very large images to SD rez. If that's still a problem, pre-blurring the images really helps. Again, just enough to remove the problem in the end results. Remembering the SD video is interlaced, putting a flicker-filter on the end toby Graeme Nattress - Café LA
Re: Final Cut Studio (2009): Frakking Documentation... - 15 years ago
It seems strange that you'd change from something that works, like pdf, to something else that is fraught with issues. Apple have a very good pdf reader in "preview" too. Boggles the mind... Graemeby Graeme Nattress - Café LA
Re: New Final Cut Studio released - 15 years ago
Can finally do 4k end to end with your RED too...by Graeme Nattress - Café LA
Re: Transcoding red files - 15 years ago
And to add to that excellent answer: Demosaicing (or debayering) is done in camera, but only for monitoring purposes, so you can see what you're shooting. Because we record the raw sensor data, compressed through REDCODE which keeps the data in it's raw Bayer pixel format, we get a few advantages, not least in file size, but flexibility in how to treat the data afterwards. You can also extrby Graeme Nattress - Café LA
Re: Transcoding red files - 15 years ago
Jeff Harrell Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > R3D files are 12-bit linear with raw > sensor data, while ProRes is 10-bit linear YUV. I don't disagree with the advice here - RedRushes is probably the best way to make some 720p editing clips. But, just as an FYI, codecs themselves don't dictate the linearity or otherwise of the data stored in them. A cby Graeme Nattress - Café LA
Re: De-Interlacing - 15 years ago
Yup! Been chaos here with the new little one, but website update and new installers are first on the list. And if you need dmg or zip, I can always email them. Graemeby Graeme Nattress - Café LA
Re: De-Interlacing - 15 years ago
My Standards Conversion filters do a remarkably good job of 60i to 24p, in a 24p timeline, and rather faster than Compressor too.by Graeme Nattress - Café LA
Re: OT: "All Tapes Blank?" paranormal activity - 15 years ago
Another important point is that analogue tapes are much easier to wipe than digital ones. The digital recording heads use a lot stronger magnetism to record the data.by Graeme Nattress - Café LA
Re: Converting HD footage shot with HVX200 to PAL - 15 years ago
Use Cinema Tools to "conform" from 24p to 25p. Graemeby Graeme Nattress - Café LA
Re: OT: "All Tapes Blank?" paranormal activity - 15 years ago
According to WHO, a TV emits around 2.5 to 50 micro-Tesla at 3cm: (that's 2.5 to 50 millionths of a Tesla) 1 Tesla is 10,000 Gauss: ) A degausser for video tape is from 2200 Gauss to 3700 Gauss, a lot less than 1 Tesla. Now, monitors do have a degauss pulse when you switch them on. I don't have any figures on the strength of that. The purpose of that pulse is to remove the residual effeby Graeme Nattress - Café LA
Re: OT: "All Tapes Blank?" paranormal activity - 15 years ago
A broadcast monitor is no-where-near strong enough to degauss a DV tape...by Graeme Nattress - Café LA
Re: h264 vs X264 - 15 years ago
x264 is just an open-source h.264 encoder. It produces standard files that can play back on anything that can play h.264. It's very good. What you're seeing is that it's somehow avoiding the gamma bug of Quicktime with respect to it's h264 encoding.by Graeme Nattress - Café LA
Re: RED camera footage on FCP5 and G5 Mac - 15 years ago
Offline workflow is easiest just to edit with the low rez Quicktime reference movies direct in the timeline. For that you need an intel mac. Even converting the files needs an intel mac. Sorry. Graemeby Graeme Nattress - Café LA
Re: Nothing about the Supermeet? - 15 years ago
I just keep wearing my NAB badge so people can recognize me. Graemeby Graeme Nattress - Café LA
Re: Nothing about the Supermeet? - 15 years ago
Gobsmacked indeed! I still reckon my best gag was telling Ben about the new Apple "i" app for Geordies, the iGobshite. Graemeby Graeme Nattress - Café LA
Re: Nothing about the Supermeet? - 15 years ago
Was great to see you all there, especially Michael, Jerry, Ben. Thanks for coming along to the REDuser event also. Just got to say we have the best bunch of people here! Graemeby Graeme Nattress - Café LA
Re: Converting 60i to 24p - 15 years ago
My Film Effects www.nattress.com should handle the first part, taking the 60i to 24p. However... If you shot 24p normal, and are editing in a 29.97fps timeline, then all should be good. However, if you shot 24pA and are editing in a 24p timeline, you need to actually convert the 60i to 24p, not just make it look like it. That is more fiddly, and my Standards Conversion pack does do that, butby Graeme Nattress - Café LA
Re: SHOUT OUT: WHO'S COMING TO NAB & SUPERMEET??? - 15 years ago
It's either scotch or nothing...by Graeme Nattress - Café LA
Re: SHOUT OUT: WHO'S COMING TO NAB & SUPERMEET??? - 15 years ago
Te he. That'd be funny...by Graeme Nattress - Café LA
Re: SHOUT OUT: WHO'S COMING TO NAB & SUPERMEET??? - 15 years ago
Yeah, I should be making it.by Graeme Nattress - Café LA
Re: getting started - 16 years ago
Well, that sounds awfully dodgy to me.... Buy direct from a good dealer or Apple and then you're safe and sure. Graemeby Graeme Nattress - Color
Re: OT: Canon EOS 5D - 16 years ago
Max fps of the sensor is somewhat related to the speed of the read/reset time that influences image skew. RED One is a 60fps sensor with a fast read / reset time. The residual skew has been vastly reduced over firmware builds to it's present very low level, which will be reduced still further for future cameras. Because a mirror shutter spins at a finite speed, film cameras also exhibit skew.by Graeme Nattress - Café LA
Re: OT: Canon EOS 5D - 16 years ago
All Canon have to do is figure out how to read the sensor at full speed without skipping 2 out of every 3 lines. What this means is their CMOS technology is really about 10fps. They've got a fair way to go before they can get the speed needed.by Graeme Nattress - Café LA
Re: OT: Canon EOS 5D - 16 years ago
Sounds interesting, but 3264 x 1840 does not scale nicely to 1920x1080. Indeed, that's also the issue with the 5D2 which appears to skip lines on readout and do some less than optimum scaling to produce it's "1920x1080". Graemeby Graeme Nattress - Café LA
Re: OT: Canon EOS 5D - 16 years ago
Yeah, right. I'm with RED for the long haul. I'm not about to jump ships! One issue Canon have, is that there are many h.264 decoders, and all will decode the image differently. They've basically handed over a critical element of image quality control to 3rd parties. Look at how recent Quicktime changes effect level mapping from their h.264 files.by Graeme Nattress - Café LA
