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Re: can FCP properly interlace progressive material? - 12 years agoI gotta get hip to the lingo! >Are you sure you're not just unfamiliar with the way 24p motion looks? Well, that's entirely possible I think I need to regroup my thoughts and think about what it is I am trying to figure out! I wish there was someone local (Minneapolis) I could simply invite over to my studio and show them exactly what I am seeing. Thanks for your feedback andby CaseyPetersen - Café LA Re: can FCP properly interlace progressive material? - 12 years agoOkay...getting foggy again...so in layman's terms, the purpose of doing pulldown from footage from a Canon 7D using 1080p24, is simply to make it look better when played at 29.97, say on a DVD, right?by CaseyPetersen - Café LA Re: can FCP properly interlace progressive material? - 12 years agoOk....so a better way to understand it....24p with pulldown simulates 60i? Caseyby CaseyPetersen - Café LA Re: can FCP properly interlace progressive material? - 12 years agoThanks guys...this is starting to make sense to me! So basically what I'm hearing is that you can't get a good 60i signal from 30p, but you can if you shoot 24p and use pulldown, correct? I have never used Twixtor or Alchemist...and again there, you are talking about using the 24p, not 30p, right? All I'm just trying to do is get my DSLR footage to look as good as possible on a SD DVDby CaseyPetersen - Café LA Re: can FCP properly interlace progressive material? - 12 years agoHmmm...okay.... So is my workflow of transcoding my DSLR footage (1080p30) to ProRes, editing the project and exporting to a self-contained QuickTime file, running Compressor's Best Quality for DVD preset, then burning the DVD...is that pretty typical? I know some people are shooting at 24...I've tried that with the same workflow I described, and it looks worse. I keep coming back to the sby CaseyPetersen - Café LA Re: can FCP properly interlace progressive material? - 12 years agoAndy, I have a slightly different situation, but very similar question...I have recently started shooting with Canon DSLRs, and this is my first experience with progressive material (1080p30). I have done a bit of research and reading, and I think I'm starting to grasp these concepts, but am still a little uncertain. To make progressive material look properly on a TV (LCD or CRT) when playeby CaseyPetersen - Café LA Re: capture across timecode breaks - 12 years agoI have shot with a Sony Z1U since 2005, and have never found a solution for this, trying to capture footage as HDV. Whenever I go to "non-controllable device", it won't let me capture anything. What I have to do (if I want to capture in HDV) is manually find the spots where the timecode broke (when the camera went into standby mode out in the field), and hit the capture button right aby CaseyPetersen - Café LA Re: Cropping and feathering - 12 years agoYep, I also tried the Mask Shape filter, but it wouldn't give me any feathering controls. However, I just now looked into the same folder as the Mask Shape filter and saw the Mask Feather filter there as well...one step I didn't know about At any rate...results: PERFECT. THANKS!!! Caseyby CaseyPetersen - Café LA Re: Cropping and feathering - 12 years agoClose, but not quite there. Actually, I'm dealing with a clip that had the bottom half of the picture in focus and the top half a little out of focus, which is the opposite of correct! I wanted to put a sharpen filter on the top half, and put a blur filter on the bottom half...I know it won't be perfect, but it won't be quite so obvious. I duplicated the clip to 2 tracks, blurred the bottby CaseyPetersen - Café LA Cropping and feathering - 12 years agoIs there is a way to feather just the bottom edge of a cropped clip without affecting all the other edges? Right now, it feathers all the edges, creating a vignette look on the top/right/left edges. I tried messing with gradients, but that seemed cumbersome and didn't give me the kind of control I want. Thanks! Casey Petersenby CaseyPetersen - Café LA Organizing Canon 7D footage by date/time - 12 years agoAfter seeing a recent conversation about logging software for Canon footage, I was reminded of a question I had.... Say we're shooting a wedding with 2 Canon 7D cameras, and we want to put all the footage in chronological order (or at least, the best we can do, considering some shots would be simultaneously filmed)...is this possible? Is this possible with L&T? Can this be done after theby CaseyPetersen - Café LA Re: MPEG Streamclip converting questions - 12 years agoYeah...that's my point about ProRes, it is redundant. I can put all the H.264 clips into Compressor, but then I end up with hundreds of MPEG-2 files to drag and drop onto the same track back-to-back in DVD Studio Pro. The attractive feature in MPEG Streamclip (when creating ProRes) is the ability to join all the clips together. What I have done is convert them all to a single ProRes file,by CaseyPetersen - Café LA MPEG Streamclip converting questions - 12 years agoI'm trying to figure out if it is possible for MPEG Streamclip to batch convert a bunch of video clips (say, from a Canon 7D) directly to an MPEG-2 file. I use it all the time for converting the 7D footage to ProRes, but there times when I just want to make a straight DVD of the footage, and it seems to be impractical to convert all the footage to ProRes first, then converting to an MPEG-2 fby CaseyPetersen - Café LA Hair removal - 12 years agoI recently filmed some footage with the Canon 7D and discovered there was a hair on the lens for quite a while. I tried the TMTS Hair removal filter, but it seems it would work on a still image, not moving video. I also tried doing a heavy gaussian blur, and cropping it and putting it over top of my existing clip, which is okay, but not perfect. I'm wondering if there is a good filterby CaseyPetersen - Café LA Re: Doing noise reduction on one channel = delay?!! - 13 years agoGosh, that was a while ago. I probably just exported the single channel into a separate file, and then did the NR. Caseyby CaseyPetersen - Soundtrack Pro Re: Batch filter disable/enable - 13 years agoThanks everyone! Jude -- the Play Base Layer Only option would work for me sometimes, but not with the transitions, which is one of the things I'm checking. Andy -- the Render Controls option didn't work for me from the User Preferences, however, it does work from the Sequence Settings...sometimes I needed to close and reopen the sequence for it to take effect, but that is exactly what I'mby CaseyPetersen - Café LA Re: Batch filter disable/enable - 13 years agoThat EditMule program is similar to what I want to do. I don't want to "Remove Attributes" because I don't want to lose them...I just want to disable them temporarily to make it easier to edit with sometimes...and then enable them when I've finished. I'm just looking for another little thing to make my life easier. Perhaps this should go in the Feature Request forum. Thanks! Caby CaseyPetersen - Café LA Batch filter disable/enable - 13 years agoHere's a good question for you guys: I was wondering if it were possible to take a bunch of clips with different filters on each clip, and somehow disable them all at the same time without having to go into the viewer and unchecking each filter. Obviously, the paste/remove attributes function would not work since each clip has its own filters (for example, they all have 3-way color corrector,by CaseyPetersen - Café LA Re: Boris Title 3d -- Justification issues - 13 years agoInteresting...I may try that for crawls someday. I'm not using crawls in this case, so doing all these in Photoshop would be a pain as well. Caseyby CaseyPetersen - Café LA Boris Title 3d -- Justification issues - 13 years agoI have been using Boris Title 3D for years and have gotten increasingly frustrated with it. On one hand, I like how it always centers the text vertically on the screen. That way, I can move all my titles (closing credits, actually) into the lower third and they will all be centered. However, if I ever try to get them locked to the bottom of the screen, or try to lock the left edge, it alwaysby CaseyPetersen - Café LA OT: Printer recommendation for DVD covers - 13 years agoI know this is a little bit off topic, but I need help here. I have a printer that I use almost exclusively for printing my DVD covers. I have been using Epson for nearly 10 years because I like the quality, and I have been able to get by pretty well with using generic inks since the printer gets regular use. Well, my printer just died (Epson R340) and my boss' home printer is a newer Epson,by CaseyPetersen - DVD Studio Pro Re: Boris Calligraphy 2.2 - 13 years agoHas worked fine for me for several months...no problems, but I don't see any real changes either. Caseyby CaseyPetersen - Café LA Is it possible to play a sequence while using another application? - 13 years agoThis should be an easy one. I know that when I am playing a sequence and I try to switch to another application, the playback will stop. I'm wondering if this were possible to work around. I'm not interested in doing this while printing to video, but rather just when I'm listening to hours of interviews and I would like to take some notes, or do some Photoshop work while I'm listening forby CaseyPetersen - Café LA Re: Using 24p correctly - 13 years agoHere is the link to download my HDV DVD test I made last year. I actually had to trim the clips down to be a reasonable size for uploading, so there may be a little glitch where I made my edit, and there is no audio, either. The first one is Compressor Top, which when you look at the clip's inspector under Native Field Dominance, it says Top (which it is supposed to be, since it is 1080i60 --by CaseyPetersen - Café LA Re: Using 24p correctly - 13 years agoStrypes - the shutter is 1/50 dcouzin - very interesting...I will look into that. Hopefully sometime today I can post my sample DVD of the HDV test using different encoding methods. Thanks! Caseyby CaseyPetersen - Café LA Re: Using 24p correctly - 13 years agoNope, this wasn't an Apple store...this is a pro video support company that is also an Apple dealer. I saved a sample DVD I made a few months ago. I'm kind of busy with actual work stuff now, but I can try to get an image file of that sometime. It was a side by side comparison with different workflows with Compressor and also with my DVD recorder. This existing DVD was not intended to beby CaseyPetersen - Café LA Re: Using 24p correctly - 13 years agoStrypes...what is dpx? dcouzin...I am playing devil's advocate for the lowest common denominator...I don't know what all of our customers have, but yes, tube TVs are on the way out. Interesting theory with Motion...I'll have to try that tomorrow, perhaps. I have had issues with Compressor in the past with going from HDV to DVD...the quality is better if I master to HDV tape and roll the footby CaseyPetersen - Café LA Re: Using 24p correctly - 13 years agoWell no...but I would think that it would look better than a cheap film effect. Is that what's making the significant difference here? I suppose if the problem is only when it's on standard def DVDs, then I suppose that would be the process in question. What are other people using to get better results? I suppose the price range is pretty steep for the stuff hollywood is using. Maybe mby CaseyPetersen - Café LA Re: Using 24p correctly - 13 years agoI uploaded a short sample of a DVD that I made that shows my attempt at 24p. It looks like it's in slow motion, but it isn't. It's 45mb and you can download a ZIP file of my VIDEO_TS folder here I would appreciate it if someone would burn it to DVD, look at it on a tube TV and tell me what I'm doing wrong. Thanks! Caseyby CaseyPetersen - Café LA Re: Using 24p correctly - 13 years agoI need to be applying motion blur?! Like in the Motion tab? Is that the secret?by CaseyPetersen - Café LA |
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