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monitoring woes, etc.
Hi there.
I posted this in one of the Blackmagic forums and I thought I might give it a shot and post it here as well.
I’m currently working on a feature in a post facility that can best be described as “the worst place I’ve ever worked at in my life!” Anyway, here’s the problem:
I’m working in FCP v6.0.1. The material was shot on HDCam at 24p, digitized at 24p into the photo jpeg codec with a Blackmagic Decklink. So far so good. I’m using the Blackmagic HDLink box connected to an Apple 23″ HD Cinema Display for full screen monitoring, and THIS is where I’m having terrible trouble.
Sometimes the image and the cuts seem as smooth as they can be, and then other times, those same images and cuts look as though they were digitized with the wrong field dominance. I even see lines that indicate interlaced video – but it was shot at and has been digitized at 24p (I even checked in the format tab)!
The tech guy here says: “Oh, that’s normal, they always do that,” (They do???) but since I’ve been combing forums for any mentions of this strange phenomenon and have found nothing, my guess is that it’s not normal. Also, I think I want to smack the tech guy, but that’s for another forum somewhere.
Any ideas as to what’s going on here with the monitoring?
Another wacky problem I’ve been encountering is that when I add a simple dissolve, first of all, the effect isn’t real time, but more importantly, the dissolve appears to affect the gamma of the shots from the in to the out points of the effect. In other words, on frame 1 of the dissolve, everything pops in brighter and stays that way until the last frame.
Hmmmmm…
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