Aaron Neitz
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After Effects Coin
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Really? That’s what those large moving images are: video?
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I would REALLY like a way to adjust the interface colors…. instead of trying to see the dark scratches with a bloom of light around them, I want to see the pertinent info the one emitting light. It’s like looking at a light bulb that’s turned on to see the wattage decal.
you can invert everything with Universal Access… and it looks a little more like the greys of Avid… but it obviously inverts EVERYTHING which makes it useless.
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Well, one thing to give a go: 30fps edl from FCP, translate to 24fps EDL with Cinema Tools. Have DI house load at 2K with 5 frame handles. There will be little gaps and problems with the 24edl, but nothing should be more than a frame or two out. Take an extra day to go through the 2K conform and niggle the clips until they sync to sound and feel good.
The big problem is that Timecode on the 29.97 fps tape will never resolve right in 24fps land. The only burn in frames I would trust is at the top of the second (:00).
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Long post award!
What refresh rate is the LCD at? sounds like a totally decent idea to me.
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No alpha channel in your 640 footage? thinking maybe a stray alpha channel that ends up cutting it?
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On another note: we’re idly talking about getting a big plasma for 1080p display over the HDlink with HDMI. Anyone delved into that?
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pretty useful I’d think. Too bad I really just hated Motion since day one…. think it was too much of that “Apple” looking interface.
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That wasn’t what I was asking. Please read carefully.
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“Here is the process:
FCP timeline with DV/NTSC and 10bit Uncompressed material
Export hi res 10 bit uncompressed quicktime
import QT into DVDSP (make sure encode option is set to lower field)
Burn disk”So you’re exporting a hi res 10 bit regardless of the codec in the timeline?
Just to be clear, it doesn’t matter what codec your media is in. What’s fouling up the MPEG-2 is the frame size. Typically it would screw up with 720×486 material, but be good with 720×486 material (since DVD needs to be 480).
I have never had a problem with 10 bit 720×486 -> export QT reference movie -> take into Compressor -> Duplicate MPEG-2 60 minute fast encode -> set fields to Lower First -> run Compressor – > resulting m2v and ac3 file into DVDSP.
Name: mpeg2_lower
Description: No description
File Extension: m2v
Type: MPEG-2 video elementary stream
Video Encoder
Format: M2V
Width: 720
Height: 480
Pixel aspect ratio: NTSC CCIR 601/DV
Crop: (L: 0, T: 4, R: 0, B: 2)
Frame rate: 29.97
Frame Controls: Off
Aspect ratio: 4:3
Field dominance: Bottom first
Average data rate: 5 (Mbps)
1 Pass VBR enabled
Maximum data rate: 7.9 (Mbps)
High quality
Best motion estimation
Closed GOP Size: 15, Structure: IBBP
DVD Studio Pro meta-data enabledLike Steve asked, does it flickr on a monitor when you’re playing back in FCP? It could be that the fields got re-ordered from Final Touch. Some machines lay back to digi lower field first, some do upper field first. Also the Digi may have been set to edit on the wrong field. In this case, the Shift Fields filter should help.
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This thread has hurt my brain.
It totally sounds like the PT computer is re-adding a pulldown when he’s bouncing you AIFF files. PT took real-time audio in, but it was marked for 29.97, so subsequent playback in the studio will be slower than real-time. And when he bounces that audio out it’s miscoding as if it were 24.0 frames audio… so it’s getting double slowed down. 100.08% falls perfectly into the math if real-time audio is slowed down to 23.976 TWICE. Dig?
It would have been better for him to record at true 30fps timecode 48.0khz audio. And then you could have 99.92% that stuff in FCP for editing. it sounds like you were shooting a band in their studio? that’s why you need to get back to the PT for a 5.1?
Edit Doctor gave you super suggestions. You might also want to try: get some WAV or SD2 from the PT guy. FCP can read them fine. Maybe it’s the transcode to AIFF? Have the PT guy re-conform all the multitrack the audio to 24.0 fps/48.048 khz and THEN give you aiff files.