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Re: Final Cut spot for on air - 14 years agoSD 4x3 conversion to 1080 is about the worse up conversion you could do. At least if your DV source was anamorphic, it might look "passable", but taking a 4X3 low end, highly compresed SD signal to 1080 16x9 is going to look awful, I agree with all of the others here. You need to speak with an engineer at their station, explain what you have and ask if they can accept a 4x3 SD masteby Dan Brockett - Café LA Re: Can't get video into FCP from Panasonic 170 HELP !!!!! - 14 years agoWhat happens if you try to load those 170 files using P2 Log Pro or P2CMS? You need to establish of the files themselves are viable or if you are just having an import issue. Try to play the files in question in P2CMS or P2 Log Pro. That will tell you if the files are viable or if you are doing something incorrectly in FCP. Also, if you can load those files using P2CMS or P2 Log Pro, you could thby Dan Brockett - Café LA Re: OT: Media Composer 5 - 14 years agoI thought you could integrate the Matrox MX02 Mini though at least for monitoring? Not bad if you don't need to final output to tape. The last few traditional on-lines I have been involved in, I would rather bring a QT file to a Point 360 or Dubbs Inc. on a pocket drive and let them mess with HDCAM SR decks, tri-level sync generators and a bazillion menu items and things that can and do go wrby Dan Brockett - Café LA Re: 24PN for Broadcast - 14 years agoThat would be my first question, will this be a standalone piece or will it integrate footage from other sources? If it is standalone, 720 24pN would be fine, assuming the client likes the motion and spatial characteristics of that look. I am shooting a PBS special next week and the good people of this board, the client and I have all decided that the most practical format to shoot is 1080 60by Dan Brockett - Café LA Re: Can't get video into FCP from Panasonic 170 HELP !!!!! - 14 years agoAre any of the clips spanned? Also, which version of FCP? Are trying to bring in more than one card at a time? If they were all shot sequentially, you should be. Danby Dan Brockett - Café LA Re: OT: Media Composer 5 - 14 years agoNice move AVID! As much as I love FCP and feel as if it is part of my body, if AVID were price competitive with FCS and had the ancillary programs that are the rest of FCS, I would consider moving to AVID. Unless Apple spends some serious effort and development on improving the underlying architecture and code for FCP, I think a lot of us would consider a jump to AVID. It would make running a TVby Dan Brockett - Café LA Re: Can't get video into FCP from Panasonic 170 HELP !!!!! - 14 years agoWhich version of FCP? Have you ever brought P2 media into FCP before? If you are pointing log and transfer to the wrong level of folder, you will get this error, you need to be pointing it at a folder that contains a folder that is labeled "Contents" and a TXT file labeled LASTCLIP.TXT. If you are pointing log and transfer anywhere else, you are doing this incorrectly. If eitherby Dan Brockett - Café LA Re: OT: Arri Alexa records to ProRes - 14 years agoMike Curtis over at the PVC was there, he has some good random meeting notes from the presentation. Check out the Pro Video Coalition site. Nice that more and more devices (Aja KiPro and now this new Arri) are shooting ProRes. Cuts out the middle man but kind of sucks if you are editing on AVID. Danby Dan Brockett - Café LA Re: Reassure Me Please! - 14 years agoThanks for the discussion guys, I appreciate it. I agree, I have never personally favored 30p but the client specifically mentioned it. I copied some of your better soundbites to the client and I heartily recommended that we just be done with it and shoot 60i. We did our last PBS special in 60i, the archival material is all 60i, I think it will be better. We know it will work well and I will avoiby Dan Brockett - Café LA Re: Reassure Me Please! - 14 years agoHi Jeff: Thanks for replying. I don't think I communicated my main concerns very well from my post, judging from your reply. 1. Are you positive that 30p means psf in the DVCPRO HD codec? This is from the AG-HPX170 specs from the manual: Recording Format DVCPRO HD: 1080/60i (30p over 60i, 24p over 60i, 24pA over 60i) 2. Have already shot tests. 60i and 30p look best for the type andby Dan Brockett - Café LA Reassure Me Please! - 14 years agoHi all: Need an editor to help me wrap my head around this. I am shooting a PBS special with the AG-HPX170. I will not be editing this project. Am I correct in thinking that if I shoot in 1080 30p, this footage will cut okay with a lot of archival footage that has been telecine transferred to 1080 60i. They will using FCP 6.04, I believe. I know that normally it is a no-no to mix native progreby Dan Brockett - Café LA Re: OT: March 24 lafcpug meeting maybe the last one - 14 years agoMike: No going back to the LA Film School? I take it not, but just asking because as a venue, it wasn't bad. Danby Dan Brockett - Café LA Re: using AE in FCP Studio - 14 years agoAssuming you have FCS, you already have Motion so I would play with it and see how you like it. Then you can always make the move to AE as soon as you are ready. It sounds like based upon what you want to accomplish, much, if not all of it can be accomplished in Motion. Motion was designed for L3s, opens and closes. AE can do all of that easily but AE has more plug-ins, effects, etc. available thby Dan Brockett - Café LA Re: using AE in FCP Studio - 14 years agoFilmman: If you have the time to devote to learn AE, it is probably the most powerful single application for video/film outside of FCS and AVID. I personally don't know AE very well but I was producer on an animated series and had six AE artists working for me for two years and I shared my office with an AE guru who writes a lot of the manuals and training for Adobe. So while I don't know howby Dan Brockett - Café LA Re: For the AVID Users Here... - 14 years agoI guess the bottom line is that AVID, at some point, will have to include some sort of PT Light version with Media Composer, just to be competitive with FCS and Adobe. I personally see that traditional off-line/on-line model sort of fading away as budgets shrink, although I know AVID still needs to push it so that they can sell Nitris on-line systems. The production company I used to work forby Dan Brockett - Café LA Re: For the AVID Users Here... - 14 years agoInteresting. FCS has Soundtrack Pro 3, the Adobe bundles include Soundbooth CS4. Makes sense from a business standpoint, I guess that AVID is probably less used by the all-purpose utility editor and more by pros who are immersed in a workflow that typically would include a sound editor using ProTools. But from a feature comparison standpoint, kind of a big hole in the Media Composer package wby Dan Brockett - Café LA For the AVID Users Here... - 14 years agoHi all: I know some of you regularly edit with AVID as well as FCS. For those of you familiar with the current AVID MC 4 bundle (I think, the production suite?) does the bundle include any audio application or plug-ins that allow audio restoration/noise reduction or is the only piece of audio-oriented software included SonicFire? Nothing included like STP 3 or Adobe Audition or Soundbooth?by Dan Brockett - Café LA Re: OT: Canon officially announces frame-rate firmware for 5D - 14 years agoThis will be great for those of us who use the 5D MKII. The only slight disappointment is the lack of 720/50/60p, which was shown in some earlier Canon presentations by reps. 720 60p would be very handy to have around but I can survive without it. This update is also increasing the audio sampling rate from 44.1Khz to 48Khz and adding manual audio level control. Also live histogram in Live Vieby Dan Brockett - Café LA Re: Uh Oh! Not Good... - 14 years agoHoly Crap Jeff: You weren't on the debate team in college, were you? You are either a really fast typist or just spent your entire dinner hour typing this. I won't be nearly as thorough. 1. I agree, to a point, with what you say about the Mac Pros. But as we know, computing in general is going much more toward small, portable systems like laptops, iPads and iPhone type devices eventually. Bby Dan Brockett - Café LA Re: Uh Oh! Not Good... - 14 years agoAs I have been using FCP since V1.0, training with Steve Martin at the Apple FCP Bootcamp back in the day, I definitely have an emotional attachment to FCS, it has been a companion to me in all of my media adventures over the past decade and change. I hope that this rumor isn't true but it does seem to go with the trend over the past few years at Apple that Pro Apps and Pro computers are slowlby Dan Brockett - Café LA Uh Oh! Not Good... - 14 years agoIt is a rumor but it is a scary rumor and will not be good for us if it is true... Danby Dan Brockett - Café LA Re: map with travel path - 14 years agoiMovie '09 has a kick ass map generator built-in Danby Dan Brockett - Café LA Re: What would you choose? NTSC SD or PAL HD for 23.98 1080p project - 14 years agoJust make sure that they use 1/50th of a second shutter speed and you should be fine. I shot with my NTSC HPX170 and my 5D MKII in Europe a lot last year and 1/50th is the magic number over there for 24p. Danby Dan Brockett - Café LA Re: Video to Film - Is it still being done? - Sony EX3 / PWM350 etc - 14 years agoI would love to see what kind of transfers $125.00 an hour gets you. If you research it, video to film is kind of going out, it is not nearly as hot as it was just a few short years ago. There are still places that do it but as others have said, most festivals can now screen video so there is rarely a pressing need to generate a 35mm print for film festivals these days. The EX3 not beingby Dan Brockett - Café LA Re: Best reliable Internal HD recommendations? - 14 years agoMy Frys must have had the tag on the display wrong (Oxnard) because even the person who helped me find them said one per person. Sounds like MicroCenter would be the best deal anyway, that is really cheap. Thanks for the heads up Loren. Danby Dan Brockett - Café LA Re: Best reliable Internal HD recommendations? - 14 years agoI just picked up two of those Frys 1TB Hitachis. You should know that it is limit one per customer but the girl at the register still charged me the sale price on two of them, which was nice. Other Frys may have sharper cashiers though that may enforce the one only at this price rule. Danby Dan Brockett - Café LA Re: Did you see? - 14 years agoI have been speaking to Tim Dashwood and most of the other big players in 3D production and post this week and believe me, what is revolutionary about this new Panasonic is probably not apparent to most non-3D shooters. Do you realize that with dual camera 3D rigs like everyone is forced to use right now, you basically cannot zoom, must recalibrate both cameras as far as interocular distanceby Dan Brockett - Café LA Re: Did you see? - 14 years agoThanks for verifying what I had thought when I saw the images yesterday. I was thinking it looked exactly like a doctored up HMC150, which is not a bad camera for the money. Yes, AVCHD is a prosumer kind of low end format, basically a better, more efficient, solid state version of HDV. The prototype 3D camera that Panasonic showed at NAB 2009 did have a different lens array and did have an AVC Ulby Dan Brockett - Café LA Did you see? - 14 years agoDid you guys see this today, announced at CES, shipping this Fall? As someone who has been researching and learning all about the immense challenges of 3D production with current dual camera rigs, this camera promises to change the game, even as the game is currently being written in digital 3D production. Danby Dan Brockett - Café LA Re: Any 3D Post Experts Out There? - 14 years agoHi Mike: Just had a nice call with Tim and his business partner Paul. Really nice guys and very knowledgeable. If you work in entertainment, time to get up to speed really quickly. As the economy recovers, the 3D Tsunami is going to hit big time. Danby Dan Brockett - Café LA |
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