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Re: 16:9 DVCProHD 720p (23.98) and 4:3 DV (29.97, same disc, same menu, different tracks - 12 years ago
Loren, QuoteLoren Only one glitch thus far- the two slideshows included don't return to the layered main menu I've set for the End Jump. So when you manually advance the last slide, you're left hanging in black. Only pressing the Menu button brings us back. Does this happen when using Simulator or with an actual disc (or VIDEO_TS folder in DVD Player)? Hmm, nothing comes to mind just noby D-Mac - DVD Studio Pro
Re: FCP Matrox O2 - 12 years ago
Shane Ross Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > I'd suggest looking at gear from AJA and > Blackmagic Design instead. They are probably a > tier above Matrox in terms of SW and HW quality, > support, and higher price (to an extent). Of > course, that isn't to say that Matrox's gear is > horrible (as I have no desire to start a bickering &by D-Mac - Café LA
Re: Trouble importing a Quicktime File made in the map program of imovie 09 into FCP - 12 years ago
QuoteDoug Jones When I check Quicktime files that I have imported before they all have a DV/DVpro codec. The Quicktime file created on imovie 09 on the Macbook has a codec of H.264. I assume this is the problem. I do not have Quicktime Pro. Will buying that inexpensive upgrade allow me to convert the file so it will import into FCP 4.5 on my old Tiger OS G5? Side-stepping (or avoiding altby D-Mac - Café LA
Re: FCP Matrox O2 - 12 years ago
Just playing devil's advocate here a bit... FYI, the Matrox MXO2's feature to "calibrate" an external monitor is marketing hype. In other words, it doesn't do a proper calibration because all that is being done is (improperly) modifying the signal being sent to a monitor. The monitor itself needs to be adjusted manually (or via "high-end" hardware). The Matrox MXO2 and theby D-Mac - Café LA
Re: workflow suggestions needed- from compressor to blu ray burner - 12 years ago
Sam11115 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hi Dave- Sorry for the frustration. New terrain- > burning blu-rays. The secret is having an in house > on hand playback device- the kind but unknowing > sales people at the two places i went to to test > what i thought i burned were messing with my mind- > it turns out that in the theater last nighby D-Mac - DVD Studio Pro
Re: RAIDS - 12 years ago
grafixjoe Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > D-Mac says: > Mirrored RAIDs can fail and destroy both (sets of) > drives, in addition to single drive (or a single > drive in one part of the mirrored set) failing. > > > Aliens can swoop down and probe everyone in the > midwest...but I have not seen that happen yet and > until I doby D-Mac - Café LA
Re: RAIDS - 12 years ago
QuoteBen King Also make sure that your formatting is with Journalling off - as this can take the edge off the speed too. Actually, this hasn't been true for several years now. Journaling is pretty much a non-factor in terms of performance but can help keep your drives functioning properly in various instances (power outages, system crashes, etc.). I did a bunch of testing myself several monthby D-Mac - Café LA
Re: workflow suggestions needed- from compressor to blu ray burner - 12 years ago
Sam11115 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hi Dave- > Well, I tested my dvd in a stand alone burner. > Although the running time of my piece registers, > nothing plays. After Compressor indicates that the > burn is complete- is there a finalizing stage that > I'm not doing? > Will get one more swing at this. > thanks. You need toby D-Mac - DVD Studio Pro
Re: Video banding issue - 12 years ago
Ben King Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > There used to be a "Reduce Banding" filter in > Motion 2 but I can't seem to find it in Motion > 4... It's in the Color Correction group of filters (in Motion 4). -Daveby D-Mac - Café LA
Re: workflow suggestions needed- from compressor to blu ray burner - 12 years ago
Sam11115 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I hear what you're saying, now I won't pull my > remaining hair out and spend time figuring out > DVDSP. > > So the disc I've now got will play on a stand > alone blu ray dvd player? I don't have one here at > the office but i will test this out. > > thanks again, Dave If I undersby D-Mac - DVD Studio Pro
Re: workflow suggestions needed- from compressor to blu ray burner - 12 years ago
QuoteSam11115 Hey Dave (or anyone else out there reading along)- I'm at an impasse- I seem to have everything plugged in correctly- after I put my sequence into compressor at the H.264 for Blu Ray settings- the process completes and indicates that a burn was successful. Using a "Create Blu-ray" template does what you've described. It transcodes your source file and makes a BD dby D-Mac - DVD Studio Pro
Re: Logging Software for Canon 5D - 12 years ago
Andreas, Thanks for the additional info. In Preview, the Inspector window shows a ColorSync profile of "Dell 2408WFP," though it doesn't matter (all parts of the image would be changed similarly). So, yeah it is pretty clear that the differences are actual, or possibly due to conversion settings and proper/improper metadata, or lack thereof, in the resulting files, as well as howby D-Mac - Café LA
Re: Logging Software for Canon 5D - 12 years ago
QuoteAndreas I've uploaded a compare picture to From 1-4 of the columns 1) FCP L&T 2) Compressor automatic gamma 3) 5DtoRGB no gamma 4) 5DtoRGB gamma 1.8 Are the portions of the comparison image all take from within one application? For example, is this a composite image saved from within FCP, etc.? Or, is this a composite image where the portions are taken from different aby D-Mac - Café LA
Re: DVD to FCP - 12 years ago
Quotederekmok What DVD is it? If it's a commercially produced DVD, like a studio-released feature film, I'm afraid we can't help you, as that would be copyright violation. That statement isn't entirely correct. In the second half of 2010 (not sure exactly when), the U.S. Copyright Office granted documentary filmmakers an exemption to the DMCA, allowing filmmakers to "rip" exerptsby D-Mac - Café LA
Re: What video card has NTSC out? - 12 years ago
QuoteBen King SD is only hanging on in low income homes and trailer parks because the coupons haven't been redeemed or received by the vast majority unable to afford to upgrade to HD. (if you are able to upgrade but haven't shame on you! ) Not only is this comment rather classist/elitist, it is quite inaccurate (unless most people, at least in the U.S., live in low income homes and trailer paby D-Mac - Café LA
Re: QuickTime playback framerate artifacts - 12 years ago
I may have been a little lax in my Nyquist statement, but the idea behind it still applies. Taking photos as you did is almost certainly not a valid way to test the display performance. Signal scopes, and other test equipment, are the proper way to do it. Quotedcouzin As explained in a previous post, I think it is essential to be able to verify that what you see is really 60p, etc. The technby D-Mac - Café LA
Re: Custom size/Frame Rate MPEG 2 TS - 12 years ago
Lee, Pardon my previous suggestion. I must be losing my mind... I did a test (created a sequence in FCP and exported it). I can verify that Compressor doesn't like the custom frame size, nor does MPEG Streamclip. I didn't have a problem with the frame rate but only the frame size. QuoteLee 65" Plasma with programmed delivery from solid state video box in permanent visitors cenby D-Mac - Compressor - Media Compression and Conversion
Re: The frame dimensions of DV Anamorphic are... - 12 years ago
Thanks to everyone for giving me a headache...by D-Mac - Café LA
Re: XDCAM EX 1080i60 footage is jumpy - 12 years ago
Quotecoachjb2u At first I thought he was just a bad cameraman, but How is not knowing your camera settings a good thing? Thanks for the post. Good info about camera settings that a lot of people miss. People should always get in the habit of restoring factory defaults on cameras and then setting them up properly prior to use. Not doing so is just asking for trouble... -Daveby D-Mac - Café LA
Re: Dropped Frames/Stuttering with HM100 footage - 12 years ago
FEDFiLM Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > hmm.. well can I get an answer to this? > why does the footage play back perfectly in the > Quicktime program, but not in final cut? It probably doesn't play back properly in QuickTime Player. QT Player drops and blends frames to maintain playback speed. Quality is also reduced to maintain playback speed.by D-Mac - Café LA
Re: QuickTime playback framerate artifacts - 12 years ago
dcouzin, For all of your reading on this general subject, you mentioned but dismissed some key points. If a monitor (pretty much all of them under $1000, or even more) can't display a full gamut for video, then nothing you do will make it do so. And, cheaper monitors can't accurately reproduce colors even within a limited/reduced color gamut, regardless of the calibration tools used. Then,by D-Mac - Café LA
Re: Custom size/Frame Rate MPEG 2 TS - 12 years ago
Lee, In Compressor use the "Transport Stream" preset (you can type "transport" in the search field of the Settings window. Then, you can go to the "Geometry" pane of the compression settings window and adjust the frame size to the new dimensions. In the "Frame Control" pane, you could leave it as is (automatic) and see how the result looks with a smalby D-Mac - Compressor - Media Compression and Conversion
Re: "Reverse Telecine" 24+1 back to true 24 - 12 years ago
Sorry, Nick, but I haven't used that particular plugin... I'm sure that Graeme will help you figure things out. -Daveby D-Mac - Café LA
Re: workflow suggestions needed- from compressor to blu ray burner - 12 years ago
Sam11115 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hi Dave- I just ordered the OWC Mercury Pro 10X > Blu-Ray+Super-MultiDrive Burner External > Burner (I've had trouble with LaCie products > also)- Hopefully I just plug it in- and then i can > burn right from Compressor, correct? Or do i need > anything else in the middle. I really appreciate >by D-Mac - DVD Studio Pro
Re: General question re: horizontal motion and stuttering/skipping/jittering/etc - 12 years ago
mark@avolution Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Flicker filter might help in FCP I tried this filter and it seemed to work the best out of a few "deflicker" filters I tried (I had to use the maximum setting to get rid of all of the flickering). I did notice that your clip had no interlacing field order set (it seemed progressive?). Did you setby D-Mac - Café LA
Re: workflow suggestions needed- from compressor to blu ray burner - 12 years ago
Sam11115 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > That's helpful Dave, thank you. Can you suggest > any models other than the LaCie 301906U d2 Blu-ray > 12x External Drive that supports MAC? I noticed > some of the less expensive external drives are > only PC supported. Having been burned by LaCie quality issues in the past, I won't buy anything froby D-Mac - DVD Studio Pro
Re: workflow suggestions needed- from compressor to blu ray burner - 12 years ago
One option would be to use Toast with your H.264 file and author the BD from there (and then burn it). Toast can also encode the video file (not sure how the quality compares with that of Compressor). Final Cut Pro can create a BD using the Share menu (FCP 7) and the current version of Compressor has a BD template. You wouldn't need Toast in these cases. You can get an external BD drive thaby D-Mac - DVD Studio Pro
Re: "Reverse Telecine" 24+1 back to true 24 - 12 years ago
Nick Meyers Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > i have captured a film from a PAL Digibeta > Master. > > the film had been telecined at 24fps to the 25fps > tape. > so what happens is that every 12 frames an extra > field is added. > > this gives you 12 "true" frames, and 13 "merged" > frames every second,by D-Mac - Café LA
Re: General question re: horizontal motion and stuttering/skipping/jittering/etc - 12 years ago
clay Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sure, it's 314mb, but here you go: > > > v Thanks. DL-ing now. You could also try a couple other things (still downloading)... Enlarging the graph paper background should help with the thin lines. You could also consider rotating the graph paper a bit in the x-y (viewing) plane, or even tilt it in 3-by D-Mac - Café LA
Re: General question re: horizontal motion and stuttering/skipping/jittering/etc - 12 years ago
Clay, It does no good to furnish us with a progressive and possibly resized version, and in a highly compressed delivery codec (H.264). That conversion itself might mask some of your observed behavior. Could you post a clip in the native size and format? (You could try the following suggestion first and see if that helps.) I looked at the clip that you posted. Even with the progressive H.by D-Mac - Café LA
