Adam Smith
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If nobody’s tested it by 6pm pst I can do it.
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[Burt Holland] “It’s not playing back overcranked. Audio sounds normal, speed is normal. I don’t know whether its adding frames in the viewer, or subtracting frames in the composition. I’ll try running it through compressor.”
Sorry, I guess I’m confused. What is the problem you’re trying to correct again?
You wanted 60p footage but seem to have shot it in 24p? If so, are you working in a 720p60 project with sequence and AJA output set to match?
Do you have any way to view the MXF files in quicktime, frame by frame just to see exactly what you have without FCP’s help?
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[matthew gellert] “when I shoot in 720/30p and capture with the pulldown applied the footage when played back via fcp or even quicktime player is out of sync with the audio and the video appears to be running slightly faster than it should. If I capture without the pulldown applied, it captures and plays back at 60 and it looks and acts like it was shot at 60, ie very fluid.”
Question – you’re working in a 720p60 project and matching sequence, right?
I don’t know how you’d manage to see 60 chronological samples per second if it was recorded at 720p30. I can imagine shooting 720p30 with the variable Frame Rate set to 60 – but then you’d have no audio at all and the footage would be double-speed.
720p30 should require NO pulldown removal. It’s intended to ride in a 60p signal. I’d pass it through compressor and output a DVCProHD 720p30 file even tho that’s what you’re supposed to have already.
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[Mike Edge] “I’m planning on shooting 720pn/30 at 30fps using DVC PRO HD”
Are you shooting 30p for a certain look, or thinking it’s more compatible with NTSC? If it’s the look you want, you might try 720p24 instead – more filmy and less noticeable combing on horizontal motion. But if you want the final product to have the smooth motion ‘video look’ then shoot at 720p60 – it downconverts nicely to 480i60.
I’m no pro at FCP yet, but I’d consider downconverting your footage through compressor before you edit as opposed to just scaling it to fit in an NTSC timeline, but others who know more may know better.
You can certainly shoot SD instead of HD, but if the settings on the HVX200 match my HPX500, you have 3 options:
SIDE CROP – chops off the sides of the 16×9 image to fill a 4×3 frame. Fine, but effectively makes your lens less wide-angle horizontally.
LETTER BOX – does the same as above, then also covers up the top and bottom of the image with a letter box. So you lose the sides AND space at the top and bottom. This further limits the wide-angle end of your lens – it may be no issue at all depending on what you’re shooting, but to me it’s annoying that you wind up with a 16×9 image that’s been chopped out of the middle of a much larger 16×9 image.
STRETCH – full 16×9 image distorted to fit within a 4×3 frame. You get the full content of the image, but I’ve not worked in this format before so not sure how you’d deal with it in FCP for final delivery. I’d suppose you could simply scale the footage down until it’s standard letterbox sized, right?
Whichever way you go, I’d certainly test the whole workflow ahead of time.
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Ok – if you had the Recording Format set to 720p60 but Frame Rate changed from Default to 24, then you’ve shot overcranked and your footage is 250% slow motion, correct? It was recorded at 60fps but is being played back at 24fps. Can you confirm that there’s no audio?
Try running the footage through Compressor and outputting as a DVCProHD 60p movie. You’ve got all the frames there, it just needs to know to play them back at 60 instead of 24. I’m not sure if the Panasonic Frame Rate Converter would do the same thing.
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I use Raylight now, but when I was importing via Log and Transfer I don’t recall any issues with 30p footage.
If you shot 30p then the footage should work just fine in a standard 720p60 sequence… but of course it should have the ‘look’ of 30p over those 60fps.
Are you seeing the smooth motion of 60p, or noticeable (sub-optimal) pulldown frames?
You did not shoot 30pA, correct?
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Not sure from your description what exactly happened on the shoot…
Did you shoot 24p (over 60) so it has the look of 24p but with pulldown to fill out the standard 720p60 signal?
Or did you intend to shoot 60p but the variable frame rate was set to 24 and you wound up with slow motion footage? Do you have audio?
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The extended warranty is free, you just have to register the camera on the Panasonic site.
You should have papers that come with the camera that tell you where to go register. It took probably 3 months for my certificate to show up.
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You sound really focused on chromakeying, but I strongly suggest that after you shoot on the green screen, throw up some white sheets or a paper backdrop and shoot it again. Expose for the subject.
You will have a much better chance of success if all you have to do is some color correction and to blow out the whites with maybe some soft matte work, versus trying to pull a usable first-time key from an unlit set with a DV camera.
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[Nate Stephens] “That is the Barry Green, hack… It might be found on DVXusers.com sometime in late June / early July ’08.”
Yup I know he originally came up with it, just wasn’t sure if the post I copied for my own reference a while back was actually in his own words or another person’s recap/review of the steps.
Either way, I’ve never gotten around to trying it out on my ‘500, but I hope to sometime soon.
-Adam
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