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Re: Blowing up ProRes 422 to create a CU - any way to do this without losing resolution? - 11 years agoI have a somewhat related question: if I have footage shot on a Sony NEX 6 (1080p, 60fps) what is the best way to resize that footage to 720p/60? When I say 'best', I mean fastest. my projects are only ever web delivered (why the rest of the footage is 720p), but we would like to incorporate some of this larger format video, IF the resizing can be done efficiently. Cheers to all, KLby Kit L - Café LA Re: Conform 60fps tp 24 fps for FCP7 - 11 years agoDennis, thank you. Understand everything you have written here, and the way forward is clear for me, OTOH, I will have to go back and see what happened with the ClipWrap 422 footage; on the particular ingest I may have forgotten to select the correct output format. Thanks for all your help; over and out from me.by Kit L - Café LA Re: New Improved FAQ Wiki - 11 years agoBrilliant: thank you all. I notice that this link seems not to work: Understanding HD (takes to back to the main page; and some of the other links in that same sections behave the same way—or are these parts not yet operational?). Is there a better place to feed this kind of info. back to the authors?by Kit L - Café LA Re: Conform 60fps tp 24 fps for FCP7 - 11 years agoDennis wrote: QuoteI would trust the eye watching footage shot at 60 fps and displayed at 24 fps, via "persistence of vision", to be less perverse than optical flow algorithms extending the same footage 2.5× for 60 fps display. Dennis, thanks sincerely: all of this is tremendously helpful. I did notice a significant softening of the images following retiming 60 fps to 24; now I undeby Kit L - Café LA Re: Conform 60fps tp 24 fps for FCP7 - 11 years agoDennis, a little update. The hacked GH2 allows true 720p/60 (59.94?), and Cinema Tools allows direct conforming to 24 or 30fps. I have been doing research on the recommended shutter speeds for best motion rendition with 720p/60, and these vary from 1/300 to 1/1000—and re-entering these kinds of figures in your formula above QuoteFor progressive video, the shutter time multiplied by the fraby Kit L - Café LA Re: Conform 60fps tp 24 fps for FCP7 - 11 years agodcouzin: perfect. I will experiment and get back here with something tangible. Sincere thanks, KLby Kit L - Café LA Re: Conform 60fps tp 24 fps for FCP7 - 11 years agoDennis, thank you for this detailed answer. Let me pose the deeper question another way: if you were shooting human-speed movement (let's use the example of shooting the action of walking, from above, in bare feet, and on rough ground; I want to show how the feet mould to the roughnesses), what settings would you recommend you start with? I am using a GH2 for the first time; it is unhacked preby Kit L - Café LA Re: Conform 60fps tp 24 fps for FCP7 - 11 years agoThanks Derek, Missed it the first time, it seems. Do you have any views on what I am trying to do generally?by Kit L - Café LA Re: Conform 60fps tp 24 fps for FCP7 - 11 years agoQuoteJon Chappell wrote We have a conform function in QT Edit. Can you elaborate? I have FCP 7, ClipWrap, MPEGStreamclip. Mac OS 10.8.2 I am shooting with a Panasonic GH2; my goal is the best slo-mo I can get. Shooting 720p/60. I could not see an app "QT Edit" on your site. A question to all: If I shoot 720p/60, use ClipWrap to convert to ProRes 422, bring into my project, uby Kit L - Café LA Re: Re.: Good AVCHD converter (Panasonic flavour) - 11 years ago@dcouzin: thanks for that—I could not find that utility despite spending an hour on Panasonic's site (and being a PASS member, too). Downloading that now. @derekmok: thanks: I bought ClickWrap in the meantime, and it works perfectly. I used its "convert to ProRes 422 LT" and it works quickly and (this is the best part), the tiny MBA with FCP 7.0.3 works perfectly. As well, a USBby Kit L - Café LA Re.: Good AVCHD converter (Panasonic flavour) - 11 years agoCan anyone recommend a good AVCHD converter, please, if no one can assist with the above problem; I need to get this footage into FCP! All suggestions very gratefully received.by Kit L - Café LA Quicktime: "cannot complete export" - 11 years agoSetup: FCP 7.0.3, MacBook Air, 8GB RAM, i7 chip, Mountain Lion 10.8, Thunderbolt to FW800 external drive A-Cam: Panasonic HMC-152 camera, record setting 720p, files recorded to SDHC card B-Cam: Panasonic GX1, 720p, files recorded to SDHC card I have used this version of FCP to transcode many hours of footage from the HMC-152 camera, from a quad-core 15" MacBook Pro, and using Liby Kit L - Café LA Re: "File error: Access denied" message on attempting to render - 14 years agoSadly, no; if only it were that simple. Just checked and all drives have that box checked. Could it just be that folder, I wonder? I will try this tomorrow. Thanks.by Kit L - Café LA "File error: Access denied" message on attempting to render - 14 years agoSetup: Snow Leopard, FCP 7.0.1, MacQuadra, &GB Ram, SSD boot drive, three internal HDs and one ext FW drive. HD (Apple ProRes 422); sequence settings 1280 x 720p 25. v. simple sequence (one clip!) and a single typewriter effect via the viewer over the clip. As a moving super, has to be rendered, but trying to render video produces this message. I have reset scratch disks so all filesby Kit L - Café LA Re: AVCHD files and FCP - 14 years agoAlexander, Thanks. Just a note: there is AVCHD and there is AVCHD! The Panasonic variety is, to my eyes, extremely pleasing, if shot at 720p. Upscaling and downscaling (for the web, for example) is computationally untaxing (this is not the case for interlaced video); the HMC-150 handles mixed light extremely elegantly; it has image stabilisation AND auto focus; see this image (screen grab of aby Kit L - Café LA Re: AVCHD files and FCP - 14 years agoI have a Panasonic HMC-152 camera that records AVCHD on SDHC cards, and IMHO, the quality of the video is excellent. I shoot at 720p/25. Transcoding takes about 30% of real time (compared to DV, this is delightful). Uncompressing increases file sizes by a factor of two or more, depending on content. FCP handles the data files perfectly via FW 800. A plus for me. No dropped frames...by Kit L - Café LA Re: keyboard shortcut to toggle sequence tabs in the timeline in final cut pro - 14 years agoTom I am a bit slow today ('flu). "Cmd-Shift-[ and ]" what is the [ and ] key? cheers, klby Kit L - Café LA Re: Log & Transfer Question - "Audio Mixed Down to Stereo" - 15 years agoThanks Tom; that adds to the knowledge base. A Q., if I may: when you say "5.1 surround" do you mean the AAC compression that this codec uses, rather than the multiple inputs that 5.1 uses? I ask this because the 150, like most of the rest of them AFAIK, only record a maximum of two tracks into the camera. My recollection is that this camera records its sound at the highest comprby Kit L - Café LA Re: AVCHD workflow and ERROR MESSAGE - 15 years agoThis might sound basic, but if this happened to me, I would carefully clean the card contacts, and carefully try again. If you follow the AIC route, and then go to prores 422, I think that there would have to be a loss in that process. This is not my workflow, so someone else will comment, but AFAIK, all you need to do is set up a new sequence, using the apple pro res 422 setting, and drag theby Kit L - Café LA Re: Log & Transfer Question - "Audio Mixed Down to Stereo" - 15 years agoI have a similar setup; Panasonic HMC-152 and I always shoot 720p25 or 50 too. The default "Audio Mixed Down to Stereo" is a misnomer, in my view: if separate tracks are recorded, separate tracks are brought in in the transcode process. The tracks do come in as linked pairs. hth, klby Kit L - Café LA Re: Recommendations for Mic Preamp - 15 years agoTwo suggestions: an MBox2, or a Wendt X2. I have both; both are excellent, IMHO.by Kit L - Café LA Re: NTSC to PAL conversion issue - 15 years agoNick, Only Australian and NZ DVD players will play both standards natively unless you pay quite a lot more for a dual standards player in other parts of the world. This is why, going the other way, for my DVDs I have always had a standards conversion house (Video8 in Sydney) convert all PAL material (old SD days) to NTSC, because NTSC will play everywhere, including Australia and NZ. The reverby Kit L - Café LA Re: I have a love/hate relationship with DVDs - 15 years agojjnap, will this method and software work for PAL mpeg2 footage as well? I have been asked to edit a short program for a local community center, and they have the "original" footage on DVD... In any case, I will download that software and have a play. Thanks for the post. Cheers, klby Kit L - Café LA Re: Firewire 800 Drives, which is a good one? - 15 years agoI have ~4Tb of FW drives; 400, 800, and the new 3Gb/s eSata dual-platter Raid 0 drives. This last type I have found perfectly satisfactory for editing 720p25 and 50. Most are LaCie; no problems with any of them. Of course, I have multiple redundancy built in to my workflow, so even if one fails, no problems. YMMV, of course, and I have seen many passionate comments re. this manufacturer. I gueby Kit L - Café LA Re: OT: It's time to start paying attention to iMovie - 15 years agoQuoteI wouldn't object to having the Browser having a combination of the look & some of the functionality of Final Cut Server plus skimming. Could not agree more, and for doco-style filmakers (100s of hours of footage), very useful. I like the skimming feature, too. Cheers Mike, klby Kit L - Café LA Re: Studio Design and ergonomics - 15 years agoFor me the most important aspect is arrangement of sound and vision monitors: I have a 23" above a 30"; the sound monitors arranged in an equilateral triangle to the sides. Deck to hand on a return to the left; papers/notes on a return to the right. My studio has blackout windows (I find this essential for CCing) and high ceilings and a big air volume for good sound. The desk is 2 meby Kit L - Café LA Re: The classic PAL doubts... HDV is NTSC or PAL? probably none... - 15 years ago@ strypes These cameras have a "synchro scan" (or similarly named) mode that allows small adjustments of shutter speed; watching the image on a decent monitor on location tells you when the rolling or flickering stops. Very Very helpful.by Kit L - Café LA best way to connect an AJA HD-SDI/SDI to DVI-D converter - 15 years agoI am used to using a DSR-11 for logging, and the outputs for monitoring (via Sony PWM 14" studio monitor and KRK audio monitors). Now that I am stepping into HD, the question of monitoring arises. If using one of the converter boxes, what is the standard way to connect to (in this case) an Apple 23" cinema HD display and audio to keep sync? I have a quad G5, a 30" and anotheby Kit L - Café LA Re: HAPPY HOLIDAYS to all on the LAFCPUG!! - 15 years agoAnd to you all. Nice work Ben!by Kit L - Café LA Re: back from the wilderness, and a slightly OT question to the experts - 15 years ago(slaps head): Indeed. $1,000?2,000 USD is the range; when I bought the GY-500 and the Canon 1/2" mount lens, I remember there wasn't much change from $12,000 AUD?all the AV gear is cheaper now (for a particular image quality, I mean). I am considering the Canon HV30; I was considering the JVC HD6, but its files need converting to use in FCP?AFAIK. The Fujinon HD lens on it looks goodby Kit L - Café LA |
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