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Re: Vid Rate - 17 years ago<<24p footage is not captured just like any other 29.97 DV footage.>> We're actually saying the same thing. I should have used the word "digitize" instead of "capture" to make things clearer. My bad.by JustinB - Café LA Re: Vid Rate - 17 years ago<<A placeholder would be great, and I will link to Graeme's article as well. Post it here if you like - and thank you>> No worries. I certainly feel indebted to LAFCPUG. Just as long as it's clear that I'm just some editor pointing out the basics, not an expert on the subject like a few on here. Still, I think that all most people want to know is how to capture their 24p footage thby JustinB - Café LA Re: Vid Rate - 17 years ago<<I agree. If anyone wants to write this I'm happy to add it to the FAQ. I don't understand it thoroughly enough myself to do it.>> More and more people are doing 24fps. And it's not nearly obvious enough as to how it should be handled for editing etc., IMHO. I'm seeing a 24p capture questions just about every day here. To make matters worse, I understand that Sony is introducing iby JustinB - Café LA Re: Vid Rate - 17 years agoThe first thing you need to do is to find out if your footage was shot 24p ("Normal" or 24pA ("Advanced." Normal is captured just like any other 29.97 DV. With Advanced the extra frames should be discarded upon capture, leaving you with 23.98 progressive footage. One way to find this out would be to step through your footage, looking at an NTSC monitor, checking for interlaceby JustinB - Café LA Re: Capture preset for 24 fps - 17 years ago<<So I should capture using the regular DV NTSC preset. And then use Cinema Tools after capturing or before capturing. Could you tell me how I should use Cinema Tools to remove the pulldown?>> You capture your footage first. Then use Cinema Tools to remove the pulldown, which takes out the extra fields added when going from 24p to 29.97. OT - Do any post houses do a DV dowby JustinB - Café LA Re: OT: Bare Feats wants suggestions on 8 Core FCP/Mac tests - 17 years agoApple mentioned how ProRes (and H.264) was multithreaded specifically to take advantage of multiple cores. Would be nice to see some tests confirming this when FCS2 is out.by JustinB - Café LA Re: Quicktime 7.1.6 is out! - 17 years ago<<it's the tiny TC lower left of the external window, Control Click on that to choose between "Standard" (TC starts at zero), "Timecode", or "Frame Number" which is a frame count. >> Well it's a step in the right direction.by JustinB - Café LA Re: PCI EXpress G5 ATI - 17 years agoFYI, this is available from the Apple online store.by JustinB - Café LA Re: Help with FCP and DVX 24p - 17 years ago<<The Converted PAL footage is fine. The problem is when there is motion in the NTSC footage. When I click through the frames in FCP, I can see blurry lines every few frames where the action is...maybe I need to de-interlace that footage...>> Blurry or interlaced? 24fps especially you're going to see blurs during motion. But that's different than interlacing. What is the settby JustinB - Café LA Re: POLL : Virus infection and Mac - 17 years ago1. About 8 years 2. No 3. No 4. No 5. Ran Virex for a while but nothing now 6. No. But I've had crippling adware/spyware maliciously installed 7. Yup I don't use PCs at all anymore. For a while I did for HTPC and occasional gaming but it wasn't worth the pain.by JustinB - Café LA Re: Capture device for 24Pa - 17 years agoDoesn't matter. Just choose the advanced pulldown setting in FCP.by JustinB - Café LA Re: Using 3rd Monitor w/FCS 1 - 17 years agoIf you have a PCI (or PCI-X) machine, you should be able to add at least one other monitor using this Radeon 9200 PCI card. Assuming you have an open PCI slot. I'm not sure there is a similar option yet for the PCI-Express Macs. EDIT: PS this IS a painless procedure. Just drop in the card and connect a DVI or VGA monitor. ADC monitors require an adapter thingy. You can do VGA to DVI or Aby JustinB - Café LA Re: Editing in MP4 format possible? - 17 years agoDVCProHD 720 via Compressor would be my suggestion. The preset default for that is 59.94 so change that to 29.97p.by JustinB - Café LA Re: Capturing 24P in anamorphic with pulldown Removal??? - 17 years agoI would duplicate the Advanced Pulldown capture setting, select the Anamorphic checkbox, and call it "advanced Pulldown Anamorphic" or whatever. You'll also want to do the same to your sequence setting (23.98 anamorphic.) Alternately, you can just capture advanced pulldown and then in the browser later check the box for anamorphic. Ultimately you're capturing the same thing, but youby JustinB - Café LA Re: Over clocking CPU's - 17 years ago<<Have a look at The ATIcellerator II is a software GPU Overclock that doesn't need you to flash your GPU ROMs. >> Does it make your GPU fan run louder?by JustinB - Café LA Re: Final Cut Studio 2 questions - 17 years agoPaul, Thanks for all your answers. Much appreciated obviously. I'm curious about how Open Timeline will work. Specifically, after you're locked and have fully rendered it, how will it look? How does FCP 6 handle say PAL and NTSC in the same Open Timeline when it's time to output? Forgive my ignorance but I've never worked like that before, even with other NLEs that do that. It sounds a bby JustinB - Café LA Re: Over clocking CPU's - 17 years ago<<but if I own a G5, would it render faster?>> I'm sure it would, when set to unlimited RT, But NOT a good idea though. G5's run hot enough as they are.by JustinB - Café LA Re: ProRes 422? - 17 years ago<<I highly doubt it. Final Cut Server is very much based around the idea of using low res proxies on Windows rather than the full res clips. That way the lack of DVCPROHD, HDV, DV50 etc QT codecs on Windows ceases to become a problem.>> Yeah that sucks. <<Why on Earth would ProRes not be available as any other codec in QuickTime, and thus available to any QT capable applby JustinB - Café LA Re: ProRes 422? - 17 years ago<<It was then that I learned that Apple will not be making the codec available outside of FCP.>> That sucks. Maybe as a workaround Final Cut Server would bring the ProRes 422 codec to Windows machines? Just a hopeful guess.by JustinB - Café LA Re: Nattress and HD - 17 years ago<<This is the single best thing about buying Nattress. The attitude and willingness.>> Very true. Gotta get me that Box of Tricks now too.by JustinB - Café LA Re: ProRes 422? - 17 years ago<<I thought we were having an intelligent exchange of thoughts here? When did it turn into a hissy fit?>> Sorry you're right.by JustinB - Café LA Re: ProRes 422? - 17 years ago<<Cerrtainly MPEG2 was originally conceived as a delivery codec. But with brains and budgets far bigger than ours behind it, it seems to be makng leaps and bounds as a production frmat too.>> Well then you keep shooting in silly GOP formats. Not as if even Apple is addressing this with ProRes. To sum up: MPEG2/GOP formats are only to be shot by news people, High School students,by JustinB - Café LA Re: ProRes 422? - 17 years ago<<he he. don't worry J. there will be "new" bothersome issues by then ;-)>> Whatever you say dude.by JustinB - Café LA Re: ProRes 422? - 17 years agoThat's pretty much what XDCAM was designed for AFAIK. Quick ingestion with low data rates. Network capable. Why shoot GOP if you have a choice? MPEG2 is a delivery codec.by JustinB - Café LA Re: ProRes 422? - 17 years ago<<i am not seeing many hd jobs. i may have worked in hd 2x in 5 years.>> You will. Commercials want to be HD. Indie films want to be HD. More and more broadcast shows need to be HD. The HD DVD format war is a problem. But for broadcast or projection, HD is here now.by JustinB - Café LA Re: ProRes 422? - 17 years agoXDCAM is an MPEG2 based GOP codec. Maybe good for ENG. Not good for anything else.by JustinB - Café LA Re: ProRes 422? - 17 years ago<<it would seem to me that they are wasting a lot of time to create hd editing miricles without a standardized hd format.>> I hear ya. I felt much the same way a couple of years ago. 95% of what I worked on was SD. But now it seems that HD is really starting to gain steam in "the real world." About 40% of the projects I work with now are HD, and by the end of next yearby JustinB - Café LA Re: ProRes 422? - 17 years agoThanks for your thoughts and observations Shane. There's nothing like a first hand look. It seems at the very least ProRes will be a great offline codec, especially for HD. I'm re-reading the White Paper and it seems its' realtime playback performance is far better than even DVCProHD. I'm also interested in the dedicated ProRes chip AJA mentions as being in the IO HD. Getting a little fantby JustinB - Café LA Re: ProRes 422? - 17 years agoMy main question is if this can be used as a "good enough" online format for some HD projects. For example, if I'm taking in footage from D-5 HD or HD Cam, ProDV HD is a pretty good offline format. Using ProRes 422 would be an improvement it looks like. But will it be enough improved that for some projects I might just want to stay ProRes all the way to tape? Hrmmm...by JustinB - Café LA |
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