playback without fcp

[Michael Pruitt-bruun]

“Even Quicktime has an “Enable Final Cut Studio Color Compatibility” preference.”

maybe yours does. but i imagine you have FCP installed.

[Craig Seeman]

Quicktime 7.6.2
Quicktime Player/Preferences (not to be confused with Quicktime Preferences under the same list)
General Tab look all the way at the bottom. I’m not sure when that was introduced but it wasn’t there with older version of Quicktime.

[Michael Pruitt-bruun]

yeah, that would be the part not available to me. 😉

[Craig Seeman]

Have you updated to Quicktime 7.6.2?

[Michael Pruitt-bruun]

yes.

[Craig Seeman]

I guess you’re right if you don’t see that option it must require FCP.

[Greg Booth]

“i assume there is some compromise in picture quality inherent in these methods that wouldn’t be present working with these files in fcp.”

Hi,

Using our plugins – there should no compromise in picture quality – we do have some Gamma Options that you can tweak but that won’t affect any of the noise you are reporting.

I also saw your posts on dvinfo.net

“well, that works. oddly, the raw dv looks about the same as QT (and VLC, etc) playback of the mp4 or mxf.”

It seems that viewing XDCAM EX MP4 files using our plugins in QT, VLC, XDCAM EX ClipBrowser, and DV MOV in QT downconverted via XDCAM EX Clip Browser from a MP4 – all show the same noisy footage, correct? If so, it might be then that the footage you are attempting to view is noisy. You can email me at info@calibratedsoftware.com and I can give you our ftp info and I can look at a MP4 file if you want.

Also, our free Calibrated MXF QuickStat application isnt a plugin or application to play MXF files – it’s just an application that lets people see the properties of a MXF file.

Cheers,
Greg

[Michael Pruitt-bruun]

thanks again for your help, Greg. here and elsewhere.

it’s true, the footage certainly points out some things to pay attention to with the camera. i’ve never seen a screen crawl so badly. i wasn’t using any gain, and this looked bad. it certainly didn’t look like that on the external monitor coming out of the camera though.

i’ll have to do some more tests. usually in the past, with my own or rented tape-based cameras, i really never got to see my work. i’m not an editor, so like many shooters i hand off the tape and that’s it. with this camera and the different work-flow and equipment, it’s easier for me to follow up and check results. hence my interest in adequate viewing of the files.