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Some of my Nattress film filters act wonky when rendered
SD 10-bit footage, shot in wide mode on a DVC Pro 610 in DVC 25 anamorphic mode to get a wide screen look. I’m trying to apply some of the Nattress Filmlook filters using the G film presets explorer. All seem to work fine on a parked still, then I render the clip and on playback, the entire frame turns a harsh green and it’s x-y position seems shifted over to the right as if displaced by a DVE move, or at least masked by a big black square on the screen left side. Any ideas? You guys have been batting .300 lately, and I could use the help. Workflow has been: import using AJA IO with 10-bit SD anamorphic preset for import, then render footage on timeline to see it in correct letterbox/ wide version, then start applying Nattress filters to that. Will listen to alternate suggestions for flow.
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It seems that there’s some serious 10bit bugs still in FCP. Which version of Film Effects are you using as I was sure I’d squashed them all!
Also, if you’re shooting DV25, there’s no real benefit to an SD 10bit capture anyway….
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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Well now, THAT’s customer service!!!:-)
We got G film presets V2.1 and associated filters when the system was purchased (knowing someday we’d actually need to use them and that day is today), hadn’t touched them until now. This problem first occurred when I wanted to apply the Warm Diffusion combination to the anamorphic video. Some of the filters go nuts, some don’t, I’ll have to stick around after hours (someone else is on the system now) and try them all if you want a detailed list of the problem ones, or maybe you want to take this off to private email.
G, are you telling me I should do everything in 8-bit? What is going on is, I’m trying to match up the anamorphic DV25 footage from the Panasonic DVC Pro 610 to look as similar as possible to the film-look we are getting out of the Panasonic HVX-200, shooting 1080i, 30P, with letterbox and their “cine-d” setting. I got close the other night after a couple hours with the effect explorer, but keep running into this bug, whatever it is.
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Email me graeme@nattress.com and we’ll get you 2.5.2 which will probably work. If in the meantime you need things to work, try 8bit for the timeline and that should work just fine.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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Thanks!
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are the 10-bit bugs in ProRes as well?
That would suck bigtime.
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Hi Graeme.
I’m just getting ready to install FCS 2. I have version 2.5.1 of your filters. Is 2.5.2 for FCP6 or have you even officially releases it yet. Will 2.5.1 behave OK with FCP 6? Just wondering before jumping into the wonderful world of Final Cut upgrades this weekend.
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2.5.1 is fine, but email in and we’ll get you the upgrade. Fixes a couple of bugs. Just need enough info for us to find you in our database.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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