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Re: PAL-to-NTSC - 15 years ago
Ben King Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- Especially if you tend to look with your peripheral vision which is more sensitive to changes in luminance and motion. Peripheral vision is most sensitive to flicker: the 50 Hz vs 60 Hz matter. This has nothing to do with motion perception: the 25 fps vs 30 fps matter. I failed to make my point, but OK, THANKS TO Benby dcouzin - Café LA
Re: PAL-to-NTSC - 15 years ago
PAL is 50 half-fields, 25 frames, per sec. NTSC is 60 half-fields, 30 frames, per sec. The difference isn't insignificant, but no wise so significant as Koz wrote. Standard motion pictures are 24 frames per sec, each projected twice, 48 Hz. This is well tolerated by most viewers, while some require the 24 frames per sec each projected thrice -- three blade shutter. This is a matter of flicby dcouzin - Café LA
Re: PAL-to-NTSC - 15 years ago
Thanks for the link to Anton Linecker's explanation. So I am using the "traditional method". Surprisingly it is taking about 1 hour to convert 1 minute of PAL footage. My Mac Pro with two 2.66GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeons is half as fast as Linecker's dual-2.5GHz G5. I'm puzzled by Linecker's description of the Slow-PAL method. If one first converts from 25 fps to ~24 fps (using Cinemby dcouzin - Café LA
Re: PAL-to-NTSC - 15 years ago
Many thanks. I'd never used Compressor before but followed your instructions and it's rolling. Will let you know what emerges in ... 74 hours. Dennis Couzin Berlin, Germanyby dcouzin - Café LA
Re: PAL-to-NTSC - 15 years ago
Thanks Josh and Ben. Sounds scary. On reflection, even the 25 fps -> 30 fps conversion can't ever come out perfect. I think this project shall remain a PAL project, and so-called international festivals like DOXA in Vancouver which demand NTSC entries will have to miss it. Dennis Couzin Berlin, Germanyby dcouzin - Café LA
PAL-to-NTSC - 15 years ago
Can I hope to do a decent conversion of my DV-PAL project to NTSC, as a .mov file export, using FCP 5.1? A first attempt was disaster. Some, but not all clips, got black edges left and right. Motion zigging was extreme. The DV-PAL project has even field dominance, etc. How should the system settings be for this export? Dennis Couzin Berlin, Germanyby dcouzin - Café LA
Re: differences between QT movie export and QT conversion - 15 years ago
I did first trash all the render files and re-render with system settings for 10-bit uncompressed 4:2:2. 4:2:2 is already a kind of compression; it's not 4:4:4. If you think about it, the 4:2:2 must be constructed from the 4:2:0 provided by DV PAL scratch file. I think this construction is unambiguous. But I think that undoing the other aspects of the DV compression require more creativitby dcouzin - Café LA
differences between QT movie export and QT conversion - 15 years ago
We use FCP 5.1. It is DV-PAL project but with lots of effects and titles so we were interested in trying a 10-bit uncompressed export. We did it two ways: #1: the project was rendered with 10-bit uncompressed chosen in sequence>settings. Then export>QT movie. Made a 123 GB .mov file. #2: export>using QT conversion. Select 10-bit uncompressed. Made a 123 GB (extensionless) file.by dcouzin - Café LA
Re: From FCP to Toast 8 - 15 years ago
Is what jdburris calls "Final Cut Pro Self Contained Movie" the same as what I make by choosing File>Export>QuickTime Movie? Also the QuickTime Movie made, which Toast then must interpret, depends on the Sequence>Settings. There could be something funny set there. Dennis Couzin Berlin, Germanyby dcouzin - Café LA
Re: Simple DVD in DVDSP - 15 years ago
It's even easier to use Toast8 with FCP: Make QuickTime movie from the FCP project. Drop that icon into the Toaster. Press red button of Toaster. The problem with using Toast8 is lack of control of DVD formating. Also there seems no way in Toast8 to save the .dmg-like file for later quick burns. Dennis Couzin Berlin, Germanyby dcouzin - Café LA
sharpening - 15 years ago
The unsharp mask filter is more powerful, with its three parameters, than the simple sharpen filter, with its one. However, the sharpen filter sometimes does a nice job. I'm curious whether the sharpen filter is equivalent to the unsharp mask filter with the latter's parameters set in certain ways or whether it works by a different principle. Dennis Couzin Berlin, Germanyby dcouzin - Café LA
Re: updates sequential? - 15 years ago
Thanks, I will look into that. Dennis Couzin Berlin, Germanyby dcouzin - Café LA
Re: updates sequential? - 15 years ago
Then does 5.1.2 include 5.1.1? Dennis Couzin Berlin, Germanyby dcouzin - Café LA
updates sequential? - 15 years ago
Can fcp update 5.1.2 be applied to fcp 5.1 without first applying update 5.1.1? Dennis Couzin Berlin, Germanyby dcouzin - Café LA
Re: 20 inch Dell? - 15 years ago
Aha! Soon this will change. Toshiba announced a 3840x2400 pixel 22" monitor. Dennis Couzin Berlin, Germanyby dcouzin - Café LA
Re: 20 inch Dell? - 15 years ago
grafixjoe Wrote: > They're not. The new MBP has a 17" screen with 1920x1200 option This confirms my point. This is another laptop screen with pixels about 0.20 mm x 0.18 mm. What free-standing monitor screen has pixels smaller than 0.25 mm square? I think I must give up looking for a 2560x1600 monitor and settle for a 1920x1200 monitor with about 23" diagonal so it fits oby dcouzin - Café LA
Re: 20 inch Dell? - 15 years ago
Why are high pixel count monitors so very large? For example, I want to use FCP on a single monitor, so I'm looking for a 2560x1600 pixel monitor which my video card supports. I can find none but 30" (26"x16" ). TOO BIG. These monitors all have 0.25 mm square pixels. At reading distance, our eyes can utilize detail in much smaller pixels than that. My laptop screen has 0.2 mby dcouzin - Café LA
Re: color correction plugins for fcp 5.1 - 15 years ago
Thank you for revealing the treasures below the little black triangle. Dennis Couzin Berlin, Germanyby dcouzin - Café LA
Re: export QT movie vs. export using QT conversion - 15 years ago
Wow! That was it. When the High Quality box is checked, both exports look identical. Strangely, the QT conversion export didn't change when the box was checked while the QT movie export did. Now I must set up a better display to look for subtle differences. THANKS FOR YOUR HELP. Dennis Couzin Berlin, Germanyby dcouzin - Café LA
Re: export QT movie vs. export using QT conversion - 15 years ago
Why then do the subtitles look ragged when I export as a Quicktime movie but look sharp when I export using Quicktime conversion? (Perhaps you read the opposite of what I wrote.) What happens is opposite to what should have happened. Dennis Couzin Berlin, Germanyby dcouzin - Café LA
export QT movie vs. export using QT conversion - 15 years ago
My project is DV PAL but I will export is as 10 bit uncompressed. By this I'm hoping to improve the quality of the subtitles and possibly some of the FCP effects. Anyhow I made the sequence setting 10 bit uncompressed 4:2:2 and rendered the project. Then I tried two kinds of export: "export QT movie" (using current settings); "export using QT conversion" (specifying 10 bitby dcouzin - Café LA
Re: mpeg-2 plugin for fcp - 15 years ago
Aha! I also have an "old" G4 running FCP4, and will try that. Dennis Couzin Berlin, Germanyby dcouzin - Café LA
Re: mpeg-2 plugin for fcp - 15 years ago
Koz, Thank you for the info. BitVice sounds perfect, although pricey. Dennis Couzin Berlin, Germanyby dcouzin - Café LA
Re: .mov files in HD won't open in QT/FCP - 15 years ago
Have you tried importing it into fcp5 rather than dragging it? Dennis Couzin Berlin, Germanyby dcouzin - Café LA
Re: color correction plugins for fcp 5.1 - 15 years ago
Not cheap, but perhaps necessary. Dennis Couzin Berlin, Germanyby dcouzin - Café LA
Re: color correction plugins for fcp 5.1 - 15 years ago
Great thanks for these answers. Dennis Couzin Berlin, Germanyby dcouzin - Café LA
mpeg-2 plugin for fcp - 15 years ago
I am using fcp 5.1 without compressor installed and wish to export quicktime movies with mpeg-2 codec. Can anyone recommend a good but inexpensive mpeg-2 plugin for fcp? Dennis Couzin Berlin, Germanyby dcouzin - Café LA
Re: .mov files in HD won't open in QT/FCP - 15 years ago
It's not a file integrity problem. I saw and heard the same white window with my fcp 5 recently. I believe the trick for you is to view it in your fcp 5 not with QT. Drag it into fcp or import it if necessary. I've since upgraded to fcp 5.1 and this somehow upgraded my QT so I can now view the same QT file residing in the same LaCie. Dennis Couzin Berlin, Germanyby dcouzin - Café LA
color correction plugins for fcp 5.1 - 15 years ago
I have fcp 5.1 so I don't have the supermarvelous fcs Color application. Yet I want to do color correcting beyond what the fcp 3-way filter can do. For one example, I'd like to be able brighten highlights without brightening the whole upper third register. (For some uses the 3-way filter is perfect; for others it's as crude as a 3-band graphic equalizer would be.) Someone here mentioned a pluby dcouzin - Café LA
