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  • way to flip clips before dropping them in timeline, working with footage shot with a red rock lens adapter

    Posted by Chad Pearce on October 30, 2009 at 6:25 pm

    I am wondering if there is a way to apply an effect to my clips in the bins to flip the image before I add anything to the timeline. I’m working with footage shot with the red rock lens adapter, and all the footage is inverted (upside down).

    Michael Hancock replied 16 years, 9 months ago 6 Members · 8 Replies
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  • Gustavo Colasuonno

    October 30, 2009 at 7:07 pm

    In the bins, no. You can apply the effect in the timeline and if you want to add another fx, just nest it.

  • Marcello Mazzilli

    October 30, 2009 at 7:23 pm

    FIRSTLIGHT from Cineform does it.. but you need to be working with footage in one of Cineform’s formats

    siRoma di Marcello Mazzilli
    Corporate video productions in Italy
    http://www.siroma.com

  • Marcello Mazzilli

    October 30, 2009 at 7:45 pm

    I think he needs to do some batch before to all the clips.

    As I said you if you happen to use Cineform you can use FIRSTLIGHT that will flip all the clips instantly without re-rendering.

    If you don’t use Cineform you have to re-render. You can use MPEG STREAMCLIP (both on MAC and PC) to re-render all the clips in batch. Remember that re-rendering affects quality so you should use some quality codec like Cineform on PC or Pro-Res on MAC

    siRoma di Marcello Mazzilli
    Corporate video productions in Italy
    http://www.siroma.com

  • Michael Hancock

    October 30, 2009 at 8:08 pm

    Easiest way is to feed your system to a broadcast monitor and turn it upside down. Otherwise, set up your timeline like this:

    V2: Flip effect
    V1: Footage

    The Flip effect goes on all of V2, so it will flip anything on V1. Your source monitor will still be upside down, but at least your timeline will be rightside up. Plus you can make a sequence with all of your shots on V1, Flip effect on V2, and load that into your source monitor and cut from it.

    Michael

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  • Matt Mullen

    October 30, 2009 at 8:12 pm

    YOu could cut the footage into a timeline, apply the flip, render, mixdown, and sub-clip.

  • Michael Hancock

    October 30, 2009 at 8:18 pm

    [Matthew Mullen] “mixdown, and sub-clip.”

    I wouldn’t go that route. You lose timecode info when you mixdown so you can’t recapture if you mixdown.

    Just make a sequence of your shots, add the flip to either V2 or directly to your clips, and load that sequence into your source monitor. You can always subsequence it out into individual shots, too.

    Michael

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    I’ll be working late.

  • Job Ter burg

    October 30, 2009 at 9:02 pm

    Turning a broadcast monitor upside down will cause severe damages to the monitor. The power supply will probably unsolder itself, and if that doesn’t happen, the rest of the monitor is likely to fry because of wrong heat dispersion.

    I had a similar situation a few years back, and got a cheap LCD computer monitor in order to put that upside down. That went just fine.

  • Michael Hancock

    October 30, 2009 at 9:22 pm

    [Job ter Burg] “Turning a broadcast monitor upside down will cause severe damages to the monitor. The power supply will probably unsolder itself, and if that doesn’t happen, the rest of the monitor is likely to fry because of wrong heat dispersion.”

    I never considered that. Sounds like a cheap LCD would be the way to go then.

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