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CleanUp. A Voice Filter for Field Recordings - 8 years agoAn advanced filter for difficult field announcing or presenting conditions. Enjoy Kozby Kozikowski - Café LA Re: The Trouble with Dalets - 10 years agoIt's scary to think that there is no good SMPTE timecode standard for 720p59.94. I don't think I've ever seen one, but there must be, right? that's a broadcast standard. Back to the file cabinet. Kozby Kozikowski - Café LA Re: The Trouble with Dalets - 10 years agoThe Fox-11 broadcast stream is listed as 1280x720 59.94fps, so yes, they're right in the middle of that. I know it's bare-bones information, but I can find out more. So I understand, create a project at that framerate and import or convert all the assets to it. I wonder if that's what they're doing and the management system is "assuming" some other standard. I can check. Thanby Kozikowski - Café LA The Trouble with Dalets - 10 years agoHi, guys . Long time, no see. I know if you're having trouble with Dalets, you should be talking to "The Doctor," but I'm talking about the Dalet Corporation of Media Management fame. Turns out Fox Broadcasting has or is putting in a Dalet Media Management System and it doesn't get along at all well with the Final Cut 7 suites. The specific complaint is time code scrambby Kozikowski - Café LA Re: Using FCP 7 with Retina Display Macbook Pro ? - 11 years agoNope. I stopped by Macs R Us on Wilshire and poked arounde inside one of the Retina MacBook Pros. Lovely machine, but when I opened up Preferences, it only had the built-in microphone listed. I suppose had I plugged in a USB gadget, it would have listed that, too. But no more analog input ports -- short of the microphone. I think my MacBook will support that, too. Kozby Kozikowski - Café LA Re: Using FCP 7 with Retina Display Macbook Pro ? - 11 years agoActually, I'm much more interested in the missing audio ports. I use the analog Stereo Line-In a lot. This is a double-ender tape sync I did for an interview. It was double recorded, me on the Macbook Pro and a second, protection recording on a Zoom H4. That's why the shoot looks a mess. It's three people and two separate recordings on that table. So far the only comments are that tby Kozikowski - Café LA Re: Flickering/Stuttering Playback From Timeline - 11 years agoOS-X 10.6.8 2.8 GHz Quad Core Xenon 12GB RAM FCP Pro 7.0.3 AJA LHi 8.0.1 We had very similar flickering/stuttering frame problems in our FCP machine. Gritty playback and you couldn't stop it. The Canvas view is one thing, but the output serial digital video looked like that, too. It responded to a software update from AJA. We went from 8.0.1 to 10.1 and it seems all the unstable frameby Kozikowski - Café LA Re: De-3:2 - 12 years ago<<<Hi Koz... Jeepers! Is it possible to trim the file?>>> It is trimmed. The original is 50 seconds @ 1.47GB. This one is a sub sample of that, 7 seconds at 225MB. Nobody wants to use a compressor on it because of conflicting compression artifacts. "Did it fail because it's H.264, or because my tools failed?" If I go too much further down, the auto-3:2 isnby Kozikowski - Café LA Re: De-3:2 - 12 years agoI've tried the Usual Suspects. JES De-Interlacer produces an output movie, but completely scrambles the picture. If anyone could try that file or tell me what's wrong with it, that would be a good thing. There are many more where that came from and it would be good to figure out a pipeline so we don't have to do through all this again. The current pipeline is to park someone on a Flame and rby Kozikowski - Café LA Re: De-3:2 - 12 years agoI got close enough to the production machine to post a clip. It's a QuickTime with no compression and it clearly has conventional 3:2 in it, and, unless I miss my sums, starts on an A frame. Kozby Kozikowski - Café LA De-3:2 - 12 years agoMaybe I shouldn't have posted this on the Studio Pro forum... I can bore you to tears about how 3:2 works and how reversing it has occasional problems, etc. etc. But when you throw QuickTime formats into the mix, I'm less sure on my feet. I can post some of the video as well since I have my own web site. The idea is to keep as much of the quality as possible. Kozby Kozikowski - Café LA Straight "Simple" Reverse Telecine - 12 years agoHey, y'all. CineTools 4.5.1 OS-X 10.6.7 2.8 GHz Quad Xenon I have a clip that looks like this... It's textbook 3:2. and there is no compression. It was captured on a Flame from a DigiBeta playback and they got it from the original deliverable movie frames. I think I created a Project in CineTools and I put the movie in as an asset. Reverse Telecine is gray. Not a clue what Iby Kozikowski - DVD Studio Pro Re: 16-235 > 1-255 - 12 years agoI don't need to change the sequence. Just the clip. Play the movie and everything is just grand until you hit that one clip, then it's dull and pasty (wrong colorspace) and then it returns to "normal" after the clip is done. Fix the clip. We know precisely what's wrong with it. The other thing we may need to do is completely edit and produce a movie in req709, say for a BluRay,by Kozikowski - Café LA 16-235 > 1-255 - 12 years agoI can't believe this has come up again, but here we are ladies and gentlemen. One of our television graphic systems is delivering work at rec709 colourspace (16-235) and we need to export a QuickTime at basically sRGB or 0-255. I remember manually creating a gain/brightness profile or Proc-Amp preset or some such on the old machines to do this. Please tell me the conversion is a clicky nowby Kozikowski - Café LA Re: AVCHD 1080P60 Import - 13 years agoBut they might be. One of the destinations for this work is the in-house designed frame-management software. The other possible destination is Warner Brothers and goodness knows what they're going to want. We got one of the Avids to pull in the work. The latest Avid software upgrade knows how to deal with AVCHD and apparently isn't bothered by odd frame rate variations. Also, the peopleby Kozikowski - Café LA Re: AVCHD 1080P60 Import - 13 years agoD'Oh! The framerate kills me, right? 1080P60 is not a broadcast format. It does not fit. I think we can use numbered, exported frames. Will ClipWrap do that?by Kozikowski - Café LA AVCHD 1080P60 Import - 13 years agoWe have some footage shot on a Panasonic HDC-TM700 camera. We believe it's 1080P60 AVCHD. We have FCP 7.0.3 on 2.8GHz Quad Core Intel machines. OS-X 10.6.7. I need the spells. Google is no help. That returns hundreds of postings for jobs on lesser machines or other oddball characteristics. I know I've done this before on other machines, but I can't find the parchment I wrote the spells oby Kozikowski - Café LA Display Full Screen - 13 years agoI have a 1920x1080 TIF still that I use for monitor alignment. I got stuck on a machine without QuickTime Pro and QT would not display the frame in Full Screen mode. I suspect because of the TIF file type, but I can find that out later. But that brought up the question. What other program can I use to display a HiDef frame perfectly matched to the screen edges? Full Screen Mode in QT-speakby Kozikowski - Café LA Re: What video card has NTSC out? - 13 years ago<<<and awful colour reproduction>>> Oh yes we will. We use a number of Toshiba panels around the place and they come out of the box in "Sports Colour." Sports Colour is felt in the parking lot before you even get out of your car and get to the living room to watch it. It's pretty painful, but it's what's "normal" for Harry Homeowner who never touches thby Kozikowski - Café LA Re: Make the Monitors Stop! - 13 years agoThat it. The Canvas is working as expected. Kozby Kozikowski - Café LA Re: Unfound Codec Hardware..... what? - 13 years ago<<<OK. We can fix that. >>> Or maybe not. The clip is a rip of one of our older anamorphic DVDs. It's Apple ProRez 422 23.98 854x480. Sequence: DV, 720x480, Square, 23.98, DV/DVCPro NTSC compression That renders Sequence: DV, 720x480, Square, 23.98, Uncompressed 8-bit That renders Sequence: DV, 720x480, Square, 23.98, Targa That renders Sequence:by Kozikowski - Café LA Re: Unfound Codec Hardware..... what? - 13 years agoOK. We can fix that. Thanks, Kozby Kozikowski - Café LA Re: Make the Monitors Stop! - 13 years ago<<<PREFERENCE MANAGER from digital rebellion>>> We don't have anything yet. The machines are weeks old and we've only just started seriously using them. We only get stuck when the new machines do something magic that the old ones didn't do. Thanks, Kozby Kozikowski - Café LA Unfound Codec Hardware..... what? - 13 years agoFCP 7.0.3 MacPro 2.8GHz Quad Core Dual HP monitors - 1920x1080 OS-X 10.6.6 We are cutting a several-minute long piece in Apple ProRez 422 HQ, 854xx480, 29.98. The Sequence settings match and we've been doing similar jobs for a couple of weeks. The editor produced a fade-in at the front of the piece and it immediately lit up red for rendering. When we try to render we get an error messby Kozikowski - Café LA Make the Monitors Stop! - 13 years agoFCP 7.0.3 MacPro 2.8GHz Quad Core Dual HP monitors - 1920x1080 OS-X 10.6.6 We're cutting a simple show, any show, really, and we set Window > Arrange > Standard. We get the expected Bin, Viewer, and Canvas carefully arranged left to right on the left-hand monitor with the time-line on the bottom. The right monitor seems to have a mind all its own. When you play the show, the Cby Kozikowski - Café LA Re: QuickTime Emasculated - 13 years agoThat worked. Everybody's a happy camper again. Thanks! Kozby Kozikowski - Café LA Re: OT: Comcast to Wipe Out NBC logo - 13 years agoThat's the one -- but that came later. I found the write-up, but it's three pages long. Probably too long for a posting. I need to put it on my web site and point to it. Kozby Kozikowski - Café LA Re: OT: Comcast to Wipe Out NBC logo - 13 years agoI was working there when they tried to get rid of the bird the first time; first to the University of Nebraska "N" (D'Oh!), then to the red and blue "N," and then finally to the Proud N with the stylized bird over the N. The bird worked out. The older bird, first, had feet and that's how you can tell, but looked dated in the same sense you can tell when you're looking atby Kozikowski - Café LA |
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