[Adam Taylor]

the trouble is there are no filters in use. The bottom track has gaussian blur – but track is only visible at the extreme edge of frame, to hide a reframing issue caused by repositioning an old packshot for new brand graphics.

the only other filters are two 4pt garbage mattes. I can’t see how they could cause the problem

rgds
adam

Editor/Mixer
Character Options Ltd
Oldham, UK

[Adam Taylor]

David, i see what you mean…i shall try that.

Rafalaos, i’ve tried the nesting and it made no difference. the timeline is 10bit uncompressed 422 pal.

I think the easiest way, although it doesn’t solve the underlying problem, is to digitize the material out to digibeta, re-digitize it and do a freeze on the new import. That is something i have had to do in the past and works perfectly everytime!!

adam

Editor/Mixer
Character Options Ltd
Oldham, UK

[Adam Taylor]

looking at the problem through a scope – it looks like the gamma drops by about 5% between the video and the freeze.

adam

Editor/Mixer
Character Options Ltd
Oldham, UK

[Adam Taylor]

Hi David,

no – no colour correction on any of the tracks. 1 video track has a gaussian blur, and the two graphics tracks use 4 point garbage mattes but those are the only treatments used.

adam

Editor/Mixer
Character Options Ltd
Oldham, UK

[Adam Taylor]

rtfm….

page 98….

“to import pictures from the computer to your camcorder.
In the HDV format –
set [VCR HDV/DV] to [HDV] (p.71) and
[HDV-DV CONV] to [OFF] in [i.LINK CONV] (p.74)”

you need to have the camcorder connected via I.LINK / Firewire.

hope that helps

Adam

Editor/Mixer
Character Options Ltd
Oldham, UK

[Adam Taylor]

thats what i was thinking Ben.

Its probably something to do with the options in Mpeg Streamclip. None of its available options seem to account for 16:9 sd.

rgds

Adam

Editor/Mixer
Character Options Ltd
Oldham, UK

[Adam Taylor]

i’ve not tried this but it might work….shoot the location on clean plates, then shoot the actor in front of a black curtain.

Colour correct to crush the blacks on the actors footage, and try comping the layers by experimenting with transfer layers and opacity levels. That would you you the option of adding other effects to one or more layers rather than being tied down to an in-camera effect.

Would be worth trying both methods if you have the time/budget.

adam

Editor/Mixer
Character Options Ltd
Oldham, UK

[Adam Taylor]

If you have the money, the Sapphire Plugins from Genarts are pretty darned good.

adam

Editor/Mixer
Character Options Ltd
Oldham, UK

[Adam Taylor]

ah – grow bounds? that sounds promising….i shall go look for it. Thanks Steve

Its not a pre-comp problem aaron. There are several pre-comps already in the project. The problem with shrinking a precomp remains – that onscreen you see a truncated edge all around showing the original framing.

Editor/Mixer
Character Options Ltd
Oldham, UK

[Adam Taylor]

Winston,

I can thoroughly recommend buying Volumetrix – its a really useful and easy to use plug-in.

And no – i am not affiliated with Peter in any way…I just bought it and have used it on several projects and have been extremely happy with what i cann achieve very quickly with it.

adam

Editor/Mixer
Character Options Ltd
Oldham, UK