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Re: Anyone onlined DVCPROHD with Firewire? - 18 years agoIs that true, Guy? You can render DVCPROHD as uncompressed and you would get the same quality as if your captured uncompressed? Somehow that don't sound Kosher.by Mitch - Café LA Re: Touting Standards Conversion - 18 years agoI love using Natress Film Converter to turn 23.98 material into 29.97 with the proper AA BB BC CD DD interleave.by Mitch - Café LA Re: RAID for DVC ProHD? - 18 years agoI've edited two feature films shot DVCPRO HD 720p24 (varicam) and I used ordinary off the shelf FW 400 drives with no issues whatsoever. Use the 1200 deck to load via firewire and you're fine. No need for a raid at all.by Mitch - Café LA re: How to approach DVCam clones of DVCPro HD 720p24 masters? - 18 years agoA couple of things to keep in mind: The 'A' frame is not an issue at the online. If you are editing 23.98 on FCP, you will want to online from the HD tapes. The EDL from FCP will be a 24 frame EDL that matches the HD tapes. (Cinema tools changes the t/c from 30 to 24 when your reverse telecine.) But if you want to online from the NTSC downconverts (why you would do that, I don't know), you wby Mitch - Café LA Re: Uncompressed Video Playback Question - 18 years agoThat's what I thought - thanks for confirming.by Mitch - Café LA Re: Uncompressed Video Playback Question - 18 years agoSource material is Digibeta.by Mitch - Café LA Uncompressed Video Playback Question - 18 years agoWill one internal SATA drive in my G5 be fast enough to capture and playback uncompressed video through a Decklink card? Or do I need to have several SATA drives and raid them for faster performance? Thanks. Mitchby Mitch - Café LA re: How to approach DVCam clones of DVCPro HD 720p24 masters? - 18 years agoHD footage shot at 24 or 23.98 goes through a 3:2 interleave when downconverted to NTSC just as film does in telecine. So, A-B-C-D on an HD tape gets turned into AA-BB-BC-CD-DD on NTSC tape. If there is no burn in data to help you determine the A frame, you can single step through a clip in Cinema Tools and look for a BC frame. You can usually see a BC frame quite easily - it literally is 2by Mitch - Café LA re: How to approach DVCam clones of DVCPro HD 720p24 masters? - 18 years agoThis should be relatively straightforward - no need to make this so complicated, unless I'm missing something. Your DVCAM tapes are simply NTSC downconverts. So ... 1] Capture DVCAM tapes as you would normally - at 29.97 through firewire 2] Use CT to reverse telecine each take - use default settings to wind up at 23.98 (since there is no ALE file, you'll have to manually determine the 'A' framby Mitch - Café LA Re: 24>30 My Workflow - Is there a better way? - 18 years agoHmm - let me check out my workflow. Maybe I am missing a step. I'll post back later today. OK - it's now later today - yes, you can do it in one export - takes a few more steps in my workflow: 1] Nest 23.98 sequence 2] Apply t/c reader filter to the nest for 24 fps tc 3] Create new empty 29.97 sequence 4] COPY AND PASTE (do not drag and drop) 23.98 nest into 29.97 sequence - this getsby Mitch - Café LA Re: Film Rate or Video Rate? - 18 years ago23.98 is not the same as 24 in FCP. And 29.97 is not the same as 30 in FCP. 24 is true film speed, 23.98 is pulled down to video rate. 29.97 is video rate - 30 is considered pulled up. I think you can just drop your 44.1 wav files into the timeline - I believe FCP will play it in sync. It just has to work harder to resample it on the fly to 48. I could be wrong. If it is widly out of syncby Mitch - Café LA Re: 24>30 My Workflow - Is there a better way? - 18 years agoYou can do it all in one render - I've done it before: 1] Nest the 23.98 sequence 2] Apply the tc reader filter (24 t/c) 3] Create an empty 29.97 sequence 4] Drop the 23.98 nest into the 29.97 timeline 5] Apply another tc reader filter (30 t/c) 6] Export You may want to look into Natress.com - he has a 23.98 -> 29.97 filter that creates a perfect translation. You get AA BB BC CD DD insteadby Mitch - Café LA Re: Film Rate or Video Rate? - 18 years ago23.98 is equivilant to 29.97 and therefore referred to as video rate. 24 fps is film rate.by Mitch - Café LA Re: Cinema Tools Workflow for TV - 18 years agoIf you do reverse telecine, the clips will have their timecode changed to 24 fps from the 30 ndf. That way, your EDL from FCP 'should' already match your HD tapes without having to convert it in CT.by Mitch - Café LA Re: 24fps to 29.97 VHS approval - 18 years agoCan your composer work from the QT files?by Mitch - Café LA Re: Narrative features cut with FCP - 18 years agoI've cut 3 feature films on FCP: Mind The Gap (35mm) How You Look To Me (Varicam HD) Her Best Move (Super 16mm)by Mitch - Café LA Re: Importing and Syncing Audio - 18 years agoFCP can't do pulldown. Before I answer the DAT issue and pulldown, if you haven't started shooting yet, I'd strongly suggest recording to a hard disc recorder instead of a DAT. Record at 48.048 with a 48K time stamp. This way your sound recordist can deliver BWF files with time code in the header. Use Sebsky Tools to convert BWF to QT with t/c. Drop the files into FCP and instant pulldown.by Mitch - Café LA Re: Pro Tools to FCP? - 18 years agoThanks TC. We will probably wind up going the traditional route - have the sound editor do a temp mix on the soccer scenes. I'll recut with the temp mix and then unfortunately when we lock picture, the sound editor will just have to conform his tracks by eye and change list. Thanks for your input. Mitchby Mitch - Café LA Re: Pro Tools to FCP? - 18 years agoNick, I hear you - and it's being discussed. Mitchby Mitch - Café LA Re: Pro Tools to FCP? - 18 years agoTC, I'm working on a feature film and we're still in the process of picture editing. We have quite a few soccer scenes and they need to be worked on by our sound editor for our upcoming screening. So, I would like to have him do the sound effects work on his PT, but then export his tracks so I can bring them into FCP. That way as I continue to edit, I can use his tracks, and then I'd be ableby Mitch - Café LA Re: Pro Tools to FCP? - 18 years agoThanks, Nick. I'll look into that. Also, this is for a 24 frame project which doesn't seem to be suported by the duck when going back and forth between FCP and avid, but is supported going FCP to PT.by Mitch - Café LA Pro Tools to FCP? - 18 years agoI know that you can convert a FCP sequence to a Pro Tools sessions using either XML-Pro or Automatic Duck, but does anyone know if it is possible to go the other direction? Take a Pro Tools session and convert it to a FCP XML file, bring it in to FCP as a sequence with all the Pro Tools tracks showing up on the FCP timeline? I haven't come across any such product, but does anyone know if anythiby Mitch - Café LA Re: Cinema Tools Please help - 18 years agoTelecine film to NTSC, capture 23.98, or capture 29.97 and then reverse telecine to 23.98. Edit 23.98 most definately. Use DVDSP to author your DVD screeners. Use CT to make your negative cut list. I have done this on 5 feature films - works like a charm.by Mitch - Café LA |
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