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Flipping P2 Footage
I’m working with an project where the footage has been flipped vertically because of a 35mm lens adapter used during shooting. I have a few hundred clips taken from P2 cards that all need to be flipped.
I’ve experimented with Premiere’s flip effect but this only effects clips nested in timelines, so when everything in the source monitor is still upside-down. Additionally I get a single vertical line of color distortion on the far left of the frame. I figure I should solve the problem once and for all, so I’ve brought the P2 footage into After Effects, flipped it and rendered it out as QT uncompressed. The problem is that these .MOV files are massive compared to the original .MXF files and I lose the metadata associated with the .MXF files.
Any advice on how to do this more efficiently is greatly appriciated!
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I had to deal with M2 footage once and I just ended up flipping the extenal monitor upside down. Then, all you have to do is flip the final nested sequence.
The only other option I can think of if what you did, and yes, it’s a pain.
The new version of both major lens adaptors no longer require flipping, so it’s unlikely Premiere will ever provide a function for it…
Vince
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Thanks for the info.
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There is also one more option I should have mentioneed, though I’m sure you are way past this stage, and that’s to capture using OnLocation, as it provides realtime image flip on capture.
Vince
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