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Re: 7D or 5D - 13 years ago
I own a 600D (t3i) which is the latest from Canon. Unlike its predecessors it does not overheat. Like its predecessors it has a lousy kit lens which is borderline unusable. I find the 600D handy for getting shots in very confined spaces and where one has complete control over DOF. But do not consider any of these cameras to be movie cameras. And I advise against the 7D or the 5D because whby harry323 - Café LA
Re: HDV=quality loss - 13 years ago
Indeed, strypes, I have seen many photos of gear-heads proudly brandishing 1/3" cameras with these massive railed "rigs" groaning under the stress of supporting those DOF adapters, but I have never heard of anyone ever shooting anything of substance with them. And they aren't cheap. Harry.by harry323 - Café LA
Re: HDV=quality loss - 13 years ago
Hi there, all you HDV haters. I'd like to mention that, despite the common loathing for HDV, the Canon XLH1 series produces an excellent image, largely due to the Canon glass - or so I imagine. I've shot boatloads of stuff on an XLH1 at 24f 1080 and I have never - that's never - detected any of the artifacts (that I have seen illustrated by other HDV cameras) messing up rapid movement andby harry323 - Café LA
Re: Mixed Media Disaster - 13 years ago
Hi Jeff, If cadences are off on the master those QC guys will kick it straight back at you with a six page report detailing how horrified they are. And cadence issues get a level 3 tag. Any "3" is an automatic fail. I've had QC fail me on a feature where a PA had left a radio headset in frame - even though the headset was lying around next to some stereo equipment set dressing.by harry323 - Café LA
Re: recovering corrupt FCP files? - 13 years ago
Whenever I get that blood chilling message and prior to going to the autosave vault, I make a duplicate of the FCP project file. On more than one occasion simply making a copy has cleaned it up. Don't ask me why. Harry.by harry323 - Café LA
Re: Cinema Tools batch conform problem - 13 years ago
Brilliant idea. Thanks. Harry.by harry323 - Café LA
Re: G-Raid drives? - 13 years ago
I used to buy G-Raids when they were based in Santa Monica. I think they've gone downhill in recent years. Harryby harry323 - Café LA
Re: Cinema Tools batch conform problem - 13 years ago
Ha! You're right. Media is H.264. So I guess I'll have to ProRezzify it and then try again. Thanks very much. Best, Harry.by harry323 - Café LA
Cinema Tools batch conform problem - 13 years ago
Good afternoon, Happy Editors. I have a bunch of B roll shots at 30fps. I want them to play in my 23.98 timeline without frame skipping - so they will play smoothly, but with slight slow motion. So I go into Cinema Tools, File > Batch conform > choose one shot within my folder of original material and hit OPEN. Cinema Tools then operates for about a second. And when I go to my oriby harry323 - Café LA
Re: Corrupt HDV file - recovery? - 13 years ago
They're very good, but I'm too stingy to pay the fifty bucks or whatever. I've used them before. I'll just have to dig out the camera backup tape. But thanks for the advice. Harry.by harry323 - Café LA
Corrupt HDV file - recovery? - 13 years ago
I have an HDV camera file shot on a Canon XLH1 and recorded to a Firestore Drive which doesn't want to want to open. I've got the Digital Rebellion package, but they don't support HDV recovery. Does anyone have any bright ideas? I do have the camera's internal tape recording as backup, so it can be rescued that way. But it's a drag to wade through the tape to find the right bit and I hoped thaby harry323 - Café LA
Re: Compressor vs. MpegStreamclip - 13 years ago
Thanks very much for the input, Derek and Jude. I currently have a ton of stuff to convert from 720i at 30 to 1080p at 24. I take it that you have done all the testing and that Compressor is the way to go? What a pain. MPEG is so quick and easy, but if you're saying that it's not up to par I will take your advice. Best, Harry.by harry323 - Café LA
Compressor vs. MpegStreamclip - 13 years ago
Lately I've taken to using MpegStreamclip to do conversions rather than Compressor. The quality appears to me to be the same when converting from, say, HDV to ProRes, or when converting to H.264. Am I missing something? I just find it quicker and simpler. But is there a downside that I don't know about? Many thanks, Harry.by harry323 - Café LA
Re: SD Card recovery advice needed - 13 years ago
Thanks for the advice. I managed to recover the data through a $20 program called "Klix" which worked just fine. Harry.by harry323 - Café LA
SD Card recovery advice needed - 13 years ago
I have a 32 gig SD memory card which has an hour or so of H.264 1920x1080 on it recorded on a Canon Rebel 3ti. It refuses to mount on my Mac. So I have downloaded the demo version of something called "AppleXsoft Photo recovery" and it is currently chugging through the recovery process. Every now and then the program throws up a dialog box which says something about the files beingby harry323 - Café LA
Re: Stabilization filters - 13 years ago
Try Lock&Load. It does stabilization and has an anti-jello feature too. I think I paid maybe $150 or $200 for it. I forget. Best Harryby harry323 - Café LA
Re: ProKit issue? - 13 years ago
Have you read this? It's a sticky from this board. I don't have the same configuration as you, but I did experience multiple mega crashes which were cause by a recent ProKit update (6.02 I think). I followed the advice in the sticky and my problem was solved. Hope it works out. Best Harry.by harry323 - Café LA
Will FCP 6.0.6 work under Lion? - 13 years ago
Will FCP 6.0.6 work under Lion? I am not going to install Lion until it has gone through a couple of updates, but I do not own FCS 3 and never wanted to spring for it because I didn't see anything in it that I needed. Any thoughts would be welcome. Best Harry.by harry323 - Café LA
Re: Producers that don't pay!!!!! - 13 years ago
Although it's a tempting idea to create a list of deadbeats, the list creator would almost certainly face libel problems. There's also the issue of people like me slapping a client on the list because I didn't like him/her chewing bubble gum. So the whole thing becomes risky and difficult to police. But, if it were possible to overcome those points ... Harry.by harry323 - Café LA
Re: Quicktime Reference file question - 13 years ago
Got it ... apparently FCP will not make a reference movie from HDV. WTF? I just tried some ProRes and it did it just fine in a couple of seconds. Ah well, thanks for the help, strypes. Harry.by harry323 - Café LA
Re: Quicktime Reference file question - 13 years ago
Codec is HDV 24p. Could it be wacky ol' HDV messing me around? H.by harry323 - Café LA
Re: Quicktime Reference file question - 13 years ago
No rendering necessary. I mark appropriate in and out points and, for good measure, I highlight the portion to be exported. I turn off unwanted video and audio with the green button on the left. And - yes - I'm exporting as "current settings". I don't get it. Harry.by harry323 - Café LA
Re: Quicktime Reference file question - 13 years ago
Thanks for the reply, strypes. I normally do export self-contained, but simply to conquor this multicam thing and because I understood it to take very little time, I thought I'd try a "reference movie". But it's simply not making a reference movie. It's making a full on self contained movie. I don't get it -- I go to EXPORT > QUICKTIME MOVIE, then I un-tick "Make movie self cby harry323 - Café LA
Quicktime Reference file question - 13 years ago
I've just bought Pluraleyes. In order to make Multiclip-able files, Mr. Pluraleyes, Bruce, suggests making a QT Ref File for each video angle. OK. The overall length of my Pluraleyes sequence is about 90 minutes - that's the A CAM, if you like, to which B and C cams have been successfully synched already. The B CAM has about 20 shots which are spread over that 90 minutes. Each shot averby harry323 - Café LA
Re: Producers that don't pay!!!!! - 13 years ago
Wow - Shane. That's a bad one. I'm currently pursuing a mere $3,000. I have, in the past, found that these people respond to a piece of paper which trumpets the words "YOU ARE BEING SUED" which is, apparently, what you first see when you open a letter from Small Claims Court (under $7,500 as I recall) Unfortunately the charity (yes) that owes me $3,000 is registered in New York Stateby harry323 - Café LA
Re: Importing from a Canon Vixia. - 13 years ago
Derek, Thank you so much for coming, once again, to my rescue - and so promptly. You are quite right - it imports through FCP Log and Transfer, although it seems to be taking a hell of a long time to do so. Many thanks again, Harry.by harry323 - Café LA
Importing from a Canon Vixia. - 13 years ago
I have a folder of material shot on a Canon Vixia. It's AVCHD. 33 gigs of it. I can't seem to get anything to open and convert the media. Have tried MPEG Streamclip, FCPX and FCP 6.0.6. Have also tried Canon's EOS Utility. In the camera's manual they also mention an application called IMAGEMAKER 3SE, but the supplied disks are for PC and I'm on a Mac. There are several folders which came wiby harry323 - Café LA
Re: re: Mac OS 10.6.6 UPDATE (ProKit 6.0.2) - 13 years ago
Do not install ProKit 6.0.2.by harry323 - Café LA
Re: HDV and ProRes mixed -> best workflow? (Output: SD-DVD and HD file) - 13 years ago
Thanks very much for the replies, one and all. It's so good to know that I can scream for help from my acquaintances on this board and confess. I'm not going to edit anything in H.264. The idea is to transcode the H.264 to HDV and use that HDV for my cutting copy timeline. So I then have a totally HDV cutting copy which includes real HDV files. I then edit - brilliantly. When I finish -by harry323 - Café LA
