[Alexander Serpico]

No i am referring to the new SD to SD ability.

[Alexander Serpico]

Can you export a still of the image and post it for us to see it.

Curious, did you make this still from the viewer (source clip) or from the canvas (sequence)?

[Alexander Serpico]

Deinterlacing is a terrible idea since it will reduce your image quality greatly, and should never be done to your final picture.

If it is the feel of a filmic frame rate you are looking for, nattress.com…. but given the nature of your camera, this all seems unnecessary.

Can’t you just shoot in the camera’s

[Alexander Serpico]

(the effect was not called flange, it was called “bender”)

[Alexander Serpico]

correction, the app was “SoundEdit

[Alexander Serpico]

This is something that has been quite a thorn in my side…

Way back when in OS8~9 time… there was an application (which i vaguely recall as) “Sound Edit Pro”.
This sound editing app did 2 things which were amazingly useful…
and probably the most useful features of any sound editing programs in existence.

#1. It had the ability to time compress a piece of audio to whatever length you choose,
without affecting the pitch whatsoever (and the end result sounded flawless).

#2. It had the ability to pitch bend. You could set one key frame as the start and one as the end point, and your audio would perform a pitch bend exactly as you asked it to.

This has been a post which i have been meaning to make for over two years, and an issue which i have found dumbfoundedly maddening even longer. Please fellow Studio users, don’t even try to say that STPro can do this…. because it simply cant or wont give the same quality result as this old and outdated little application once did.

Time stretching is a vital asset to (and specially important to commercial) production. Yes you can sort of do it in Soundtrack now, but A) going out of FCP is inefficient when editing audio that is supposed to sync up to picture, and B) the time stretch ability…. well… pardon my french, sucks… sucks quite poorly…. (it riddles you audio file with distorted glitches and or distortion which is unexceptable in a professional environment or for broadcast finishing.

I am curious why Sound Edit Pro vanished off the face of the earth (so if anyone knows why, i would love to know… a quick google search gives me the idea that it became a Windows only App), but those two very important functions have been left as considered non essential and second rate as features by Apple staff for our current FCP Studio setup… I do now see that “Flange” is available in STP, but i have not tried to use it yet. But again i must insist, filters like that and especially time compression are those which are most effective (and i say that with kindness to apple since they make you step out of FCP to do this) in your sequence in FCP.

hopefully this message will encourage other pro/former avid editors to encourage, no, DEMAND that these two features be brought to internal plugins to final cut.

if Apple respects the potential power of FCP, and actually wants it to succeed in the high end pro finishing market, they should really listen to their pro users….. ( as there are a stack of other issues which are still yet to be delt with.}

[Alexander Serpico]

Now that i try and recall, i think this was a layered psd file also that caused the problem. Does anyone know what technically is going wrong to cause this? Rendering in RGB is potentially a big problem on things which color accuracy is crucial. Going back to the other problem with reds looking terrible, what is causing that? I’ve noticed this also with red graphics created in Live Type or Motion. I might be remembering incorrectly, but i think i’ve even tried to comp them together in Shake, but the problem persisted.

[Alexander Serpico]

I’ve as well noticed that fcp has this problem with reds. They seem as if they are rendered in DV, even though my sequence and render settings are set in 10Bit Uncompressed. I too switched to RGB rendering to “solve” the problem in a bind. i also got strange artifacts around imported graphic elements while in 10Bit. I’ll post a still of this artifacting on monday once im back at work.

[Alexander Serpico]

>to do a proper online with FCP you really have to be a creative-workflow-jimmy-rigger and super quick on your technical feet.

you speak the truth. its never straight forward and always complicated, but in some strange way i get personal satisfaction from being able to perform that balancing act…

[Alexander Serpico]

i’ve done this countless times for client reels, ad agency rips, and even big budget commercials for air (in which case the footage has been legally cleared for use).

when coming from non encrypted dvds: copy the video ts folder locally and use Mpeg Streamclip to convert to your codec of choice.
with encrypted dvds: first process the disk with an application such as Mac The Ripper, and then convert with Mpeg Streamclip.

it works wonderfully, and in some cases often processes faster than the time it would take to digitize in real time.