[Alexander Feichter]

i’m using version 6.5

you klick on a layer and have to remain there for a little while until it does kind of a little borderflash – if you move away too fast the layer will be reordered.

[Alexander Feichter]

thanks,

i work within every application with a tablet – so switching back to mouse is really not an option.

the issue appeared on 4 different macs (dual 2, dual 2.5 and dual 2.7) with intuos 2 and intuos 3

greetz!

[Alexander Feichter]

why you would do this? this means you loose all of your realtime effects.

i would be happy if yours would be my problem, not viceversa. i get the “sluggishness” if i want to see my effects in realtime.

greetings

alex

[Alexander Feichter]

are you sure, or is it maybe the other way round? like on mine and many other machines…

there’s a long threat about this “issue” on the apple forum. somebody thinks it has to do with the “new” realtime engine in final cut, but there’s no official statement from apple about it.

greetings

alex

[Alexander Feichter]

hi

that SHOULD – but it doesn’t….
it even changes the colors – the face gets more magenta
on 10bit there is no color change, but the luminance gets affected.

final cut/quicktime does something on conversion that does not happen if the source files were uncompressed (i did a series of tests with uncompressed 10 bit sd footage).

the current project is kind of a research project on how much can you get out of that hdv stuff.

conclusion at this time:
– surprisingly good base for grading
– high resolution
– many artifacts but in practice they are mostly ingnorable – you don’t notice them on playback
– quite noiseless (z1)
– well, forget about keying…

what i would do better next time:
– don’t edit natively if there is some (external) vfx to do
– realtime converter from hdv to hd-sdi should resolve the problems mentioned
– or – if possible – capture via component-hd directly on the set (probably the best way at all)
– buy an array 🙂

as if i did not know since a long time: uncompressed rulez! 😉

greetings

alex

[Alexander Feichter]

hi,

thanks for your suggestions.

cannot really edit in uncompressed mode because of the missing fast array.
but i would have nothing against setting the timeline to uncompressed at the end of the work and then render all effects again – to avoid recompression in HDV.

also i would go in “uncompressed mode” through external applications.
but. if i export from this project in whatever format i’m not able to get the clip back without having some luma/gamma/whatever change.

if someone of you exports true uncompressed hd-footage and reimport it – what says your waveform?

greetings

alex

ps: under http://www.schallundrauch.tv/exchange there’s a .psd with exporting examples.

[Alexander Feichter]

within fc you could do it this way:
put your DV-material into a new sequence that has the same settings as your destination timeline.
render the new sequence and use it as a nested clip instead.
after putting the nested seq. to your timeline open it’s properties and set the alpha to ignore and adjust eventually the field order.

greetings

alex

[Alexander Feichter]

thanks!

tried them out – they crash anytime on 5.0.3 (tiger)

[Alexander Feichter]

Thanks for all your answers!

Well, Film Effects is very powerful(respect), but i simply prefer curves. 🙂
With them i exactly know what I’m doing, mainly if i have to match shots together.

I even tried to put the Curves from After Effects into the plugin folder of FC – Error: “Unable to find Curves….” :-p

I’ve never tried out FXBuilder, but there is no ‘curve’ under the inputs, so no possibility to build my own curves with – right?

Hmmm. Has anyone of you tried out the Essential Effects – stable?

Sorry for boring anyone with my ‘curved’ head 😉

Greetings

Alex

[Alexander Feichter]

🙂 thanks, man

ok, i have to clarify: dv-footage and scene detection. fc generates markers without leading zeros…

did you know that on the avid the subclips are sorted in the right order? 😉