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Re: Problem capturing footage recorded on Panasonic HVX 200 at 576i/50i in FCP 7 - 10 years agoQuoteLoren Miller Another foolproof way to deal with correct format for shot material is to start a new sequence of any kind and drag a clip into the timeline-- it'll ask if you want to conform the sequence settings to the clip format. It's amazing! Click Yes and then go into your Sequence Settings and see if they make sense. The crucial expression here is "shot material". If the cby dcouzin - Café LA the unnecessary deinterlace bug - 10 years agoIt's exasperating when you drop a clip into an empty FCP7 sequence that you know fits it, maybe the clip was exported from that very sequence, and yet there's the pop-up: "This clip does not match this sequence's settings..." inviting you to let FCP7 change the settings appropriately. You say "yes" and the 100% canvas shows a nice image as if FCP7 knew something you didn't.by dcouzin - Café LA Re: JVC GYHM100U with older FCP - 10 years agoQuotederekmok...it'd be instructive to let the students deal with Uncompressed HD clips just for funsies. It will put them straight in terms of "lossless" vs. "good-looking" codecs. One peek at 10 seconds of Uncompressed 8-bit vs. 10 seconds of ProRes 422 will give them an idea of what "uncompressed" really means. In image quality, I for one find ProRes 422 just asby dcouzin - Café LA Re: Attempting to extract 23.976p from AVCHD MFX 60i/PF24 - 10 years agoharry323, you're a victim of some horrible terminology. 60i, when it is in fact 59.94i, is sometimes called 29.97i. Since your 60i/59.94i/29.97i is PF24, you can extract 23.976p from it by a reverse telecine operation. It's among the deinterlace choices in the Compressor's Frame Controls. Reverse telecine is not at all processor intensive, not a Teranex job. Dennis Couzin Berlin, Germanyby dcouzin - Café LA Re: Problem with Color - 10 years agoQuotederekmokMost of the time AVCHD should ingest into FCP with Log and Transfer, no problem. First off, Tikicutter had only the .mts files and FCP7 needs the AVCHD tree for ingest. Second, FCP7 won't ingest 60p or 50p 1920x1080 AVCHD. They were outside the AVCHD spec in FCP7's day. @Tikicutter: Both ClipWrap and VoltaicHD do a good job with 60p and 50p 1920x1080 .mts files. An earlier poby dcouzin - Café LA Re: Multiple frame rates in an FCP7 timeline, It's export time! - 10 years ago"Screenflow" mentioned above is also screen capture software. But my experience with it was not so good. It can make a juddery mess of the picture. So be careful which screen capture software you buy. Dennis Couzin Berlin, Germanyby dcouzin - Café LA Re: FCP 7 AND MOTION 4 FADE UP AND FADE OUT banding/artifacting/CRAP! - 10 years agoQuoteJude CotterDon't go to H.264. Banding is common in lower res formats, especially in gradients. H.264 isn't a low res codec. H.264, like the ProRes and the uncompressed codecs, can be used for a range of resolutions from sub-SD to supra-HD. Nor is H.264 an unsharp codec when it is used with a sufficient data rate for the resolution. H.264 is low bit-depth codec: 8-bits rather than 10-bitby dcouzin - Café LA Re: Re installed FCP 7 Updates - 10 years agoFrancois, my computer came with Mountain Lion. I used Recovery several months ago to download and install a completely fresh 10.8.3 on a formatted volume. I worked with a clone of that volume. I installed no applications on this 10.8.3 system. Last week I used Update to download and install 10.9.2 on this 10.8.3 volume. So I shouldn't have called the 10.9.2 a fresh install. It was an updateby dcouzin - Café LA Re: Re installed FCP 7 Updates - 10 years agoPer experiment, I made a fresh install of Mavericks 10.9.2 over a fresh 10.8.3 volume. (I got to see, but not pay, Apple Store, and oh Mavericks' green and blue sheaved water is so potent, and its little tags are so cute.) Fresh installation of FCP 7 into Mavericks worked. Of course you must install QuickTime 7.6.6 (available here) too. Update to FCP 7.0.3 worked. FCP 7.0.3 seemed to work noby dcouzin - Café LA Re: Re installed FCP 7 Updates - 10 years ago@ Francois As discussed in the July 2013 strand some of us fresh installed FCS3 onto fresh installed Mountain Lion. Others of us couldn't. The difference might be due to the kind of FCS3 install discs used. Dennis Couzin Berlin, Germanyby dcouzin - Café LA Re: Battery backup - 10 years agoThirteen months ago, after reading this post from Loren Miller, I hurriedly installed an Eaton 5110 UPS. It works, now that I've tied the cabling into it, but I wonder each day whether it is more reliable than having no UPS. My building's power hasn't failed in the eight years I've been here. What is the total-failure-without-warning rate for this inexpensive UPS? Loren's earlier post remindby dcouzin - Café LA Re: Blu-Ray Authoring/burning - 10 years agoThe simplest, menu-less Blu-rays can be made entirely with FCP7 as described in this strand. By taking advantage of Compressor you can produce high quality Blu-rays that way. Making five separate 3 minute Blu-rays, even if the cheapest solution, is pretty weird. Menu making requires software such as Toast 11 (plus the HD-Blu-ray-Disc-Plugin). For burning I've had good experience with theby dcouzin - Café LA Re: Canon mark iii Raw footage workflow. - 10 years agoWatch 5:45 to 11:00 in vimeo.com/73771825. Hacks are for hackers. Dennis Couzin Berlin, Germanyby dcouzin - Café LA Re: Multiple frame rates in an FCP7 timeline, It's export time! - 10 years agoIt's unclear from your post what exactly is wrong in the export. Sync issues. This could mean the picture comes out wrong, the sound comes out wrong, or both come out wrong. If it's just the sound, try exporting the sound direct from the playback with such software as Screenflow. I wouldn't trust Screenflow for the picture however. Have you fully rendered before attempting export? Discaby dcouzin - Café LA Re: P2 720 to 1080 - 10 years agoVPiccin: Yes and no. People who watched movies mostly on 60i television correctly distinguished a "film look" in the 2:3 telecine material versus a "TV look" in the true 60i material. There was no 24p display available for comparison. Now there is, and digital home theater connoisseurs recognize that 2:3 telecine looks less like film than honest 24p does. Still, 2:3 teleciby dcouzin - Café LA Re: P2 720 to 1080 - 10 years agoLet's try to make some sense of this confusing discussion of 2:3 pulldown and judder. QuoteWikipedia article entitled "Telecine" has a slight bit more judder than [2:3]. So 2:3 pulldown is juddery. QuoteWikipedia article entitled "24p" ...the aesthetic of 24p motion is retained So 2:3 pulldown is not juddery. QuoteVPiccin (January 15) In 60Hz countries we have sby dcouzin - Café LA Re: Syncing up 30fps & 60fps on a timeline? - 10 years agoAssuming your 30 fps is 30p, take it to Compressor and in Inspector > Encoder > Video > Settings > Motion > Frame Rate, set to 60. Skip Frame Controls. Compressor will double every frame and output a 60p .mov file that will sync and intercut with your 60p. Dennis Couzin Berlin, Germanyby dcouzin - Café LA Re: black and white question - 10 years agoSetting saturation to 0 in the Color Corrector 3-Way filter will remove all residual color. There are other FCP filters that do this, but Color Corrector 3-Way is a wholesome filter. It's probably OK to wait till you're finished to remove the residual color, but if it annoys you, or if you're very cautious, you can apply the filter early, and even reapply it after some effect reintroduces colby dcouzin - Café LA Re: Re installed FCP 7 Updates - 10 years agoLoren: though it worked for me, fresh installation of FCP 7.0.3 onto Mountain Lion doesn't work for all. The July 2013 strand was inconclusive about causes. "Francois' problem is unsolved." QuoteFrancois, 24 July 2013Bottom line ... I keep a separate boot with Snow Leopard for Fcp legacy use. Why the rush to Mavericks? Though I've installed FCP 7.0.3 onto Mountain Lion, I usuallyby dcouzin - Café LA Re: Re installed FCP 7 Updates - 10 years agoQuoteFrancois But you'll never be able to make a fresh install of Mountain Lion or above and install correctly FinalCut Studio (Legacy) on that boot. You reported that in a July 2013 strand, where others agreed and disagreed. I'm one of the disagreers, who has now fresh-installed FCS3 (with FCP7) on two new (fresh) Mountain Lion systems. It required preinstalling QT 7.6.6, but no other effort.by dcouzin - Café LA Re: Questions about editing with canon 5dmark ii footage on FCP7 - 10 years agoAccording to Apple, RT Extreme concerns effects playback. With "Safe RT" render settings, any H.264 clip, containing no effects at all, gets a red bar if the sequence settings have a codec other than H.264. But there's no render bar for that H.264 clip if the sequence settings have codec H.264. PCP7 is sometimes thoughtful about its red bars. Even changing the parameters in aby dcouzin - Café LA Re: Questions about editing with canon 5dmark ii footage on FCP7 - 10 years agoYou can throw a bit of everything into the FCP7 sequence, and FCP7 will then put either a red (needs render) or dark green (doesn't need render) bar onto anything whose codec differs from the one in the sequence settings. (I'm assuming resolution and framerate already agree with the sequence settings.) When H.264 is in the sequence settings all the non-H.264 clips get red (at least with my rendeby dcouzin - Café LA Re: Questions about editing with canon 5dmark ii footage on FCP7 - 10 years agostrypes: Thanks for this information. So Premiere has a different idea of sequence settings than FCP7 has. In Premiere, as I understand you, when a clip with or without effects is playable, it plays. When it is unplayable, then it must be rendered to one or another chosen "preview format". In FCP7, a H.264 clip with some or no effects in a H.264 sequence plays. But change the sequeby dcouzin - Café LA Re: Questions about editing with canon 5dmark ii footage on FCP7 - 10 years agoQuotestrypesTest it out then. Most of us are quite happy with the performance of H.264 sources from DSLRs in Premiere that we see no benefits in transcoding. QuoteJude CotterH.264 is stable in Premiere. You can cut and manipulate it as if it were any 'proper' codec. I don't have Premiere. It might be enough to find out what bit rate Premiere uses for its "native" H.264 when it rendby dcouzin - Café LA Re: Video image control filters not working. - 10 years agoMaybe your FXScript filters have crapped out and the FXPlug versions still work, or vice versa. If the Gamma filter didn't work, try the Gamma Correction filter, or vice versa. Also there is Compressor's Gamma Correction filter to try. They're somewhat different. Concerning 10.9, don't go there. I recently had to buy a MBP and paid extra to get one with 10.8, and then killed Notificationby dcouzin - Café LA Re: mts to fcp - 10 years agoIf your 24p footage has really become that, throughout, then it can be fixed. You need to examine one more detail. Study it for more than 200 frames. Are there no additional doublings? Does it keep to the pattern? What you describe is a crude conversion from 24 fps to 30 fps. The similar conversion to 29.97 fps would be slightly different, requiring 200 frames to show this, and the fix woulby dcouzin - Café LA Re: mts to fcp - 10 years agoMichael: Examine your 29.97 thing to see what you've got, and then change it to 24p. It is probably 59.94i. Choose some action, set the FCP canvas to 100%, and step through the thing frame-by-frame. Do you see one frame two times, the next frame three times, etc.? Do you sometimes see one frame interlaced into another? What do you see? Whatever your thing is, if you have Compressor asby dcouzin - Café LA Re: FCP7 - FCPX - 10 years agoLoren, thanks for correcting my weird misreading of "added about 8 transitions at the same time". Dennis Couzin Berlin, Germanyby dcouzin - Café LA Re: Questions about editing with canon 5dmark ii footage on FCP7 - 10 years agostrypes: I always convert H.264 footage to ProRes HQ before editing. At worst, this is unnecessary work and expense. A test can determine if Premiere's direct editing of H.264 is as good as editing by the indirect route. The test should include complex time effects, layered. We already know that HQ is solid for this, so differences between the two outcomes will point to weaknesses in the direby dcouzin - Café LA Re: P2 720 to 1080 - 10 years agoQuoteShane RossThe Kona and other hardware add proper 3:2 pulldown on output. FCP does not, thus why you see judder if you do this on the timeline. I don't know or care what FCP does in this case. "Proper 3:2 pulldown" is illustrated here. (The picture actually shows 2:3 pulldown, which makes no difference.) Notice how frame A is split into two fields; frame B is split into 3 fieldsby dcouzin - Café LA |
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