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Editing SD footage from Z1U in cineframe30 mode
I recently had a chance to spend a day w/a videographer who’s work I greatly admire. He shoots SD widescreen w/the Z1U’s in cineframe30 mode for a unique look. He edits w/Premiere on his laptop. I was astonished when watching this, because when he applied slow motion to a clip (about 40%) it looked amazing. When I tried the same thing in FCP, it looked like crap… very jittery. Why is this? Is there a different codec I should be using that will interpelate between the frames better? I am just editing in the “easy setup NTSC DV anamorphic” setting.
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[scalvidgal] “I recently had a chance to spend a day w/a videographer who’s work I greatly admire. He shoots SD widescreen w/the Z1U’s in cineframe30 mode for a unique look. He edits w/Premiere on his laptop. I was astonished when watching this, because when he applied slow motion to a clip (about 40%) it looked amazing. When I tried the same thing in FCP, it looked like crap… very jittery. Why is this? Is there a different codec I should be using that will interpelate between the frames better? I am just editing in the “easy setup NTSC DV anamorphic” setting.”
Good story…
My company has shot many hunting shows with the Z1U for the past year. We shoot in HDV Cineframe 30 and edit DVCProHD. The program airs in SD on the Outdoor Channel. As a matter of fact, the Golden Moose Award that we recently won was for a goose show shot outside of Katy, Texas using the Sony Z1U cameras entirely. The Cineframe 30 setting is wonderful but I will say that the image is lessened by the fact that the resolution is cut nearly in half. But this doesn’t seem to affect us that much since we are downconverting our HD signal to SD for broadcast. We are looking at replacing our Z1U cameras with the V1U so that we can shoot true 30p footage without the lose of resolution. Other than that, the Z1U footage is absolutely stunning.
As for your issue with slo-mo, FCP has never been able to produce a nice slo-mo with progressive frame footage. From what I have recently understood, the only decent method of slo-mo for FCP is to use Shake, of which, I still haven’t perfected the art of the slo-mo but I know it can be done. My suggestion to you is, do you have AfterEffects or Shake? I do know that AfterEffects can do a beautiful slo-mo but it is an extra step that you have to do when editing.
Oh well, hopefully the next version of FCP will have improved slo-mo capabilities.
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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions
http://www.schazamproductions.com
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