[Andres Baez]

thanks for your responses,
Rafael,
How do I reduce the size of the picture and keep working on HD ?
How do I render to an 8b codec without affecting the quality of the picture?

thanks

[Andres Baez]

I have not been able to set final cut to be able to edit this material in 24p. i think I’m going to edit on a 29.97 timeline.
When I see the footage and I go frame by frame, in some frames I see a halo specially when the actors are moving. Is there a way to solve this issue? My understanding is that even though I shot at 1080 24p with the HVX200, the footage is not progressive but interlaced. Is this correct?

thanks

[Andres Baez]

Any advice on this?

[Andres Baez]

Thank you guys for your advice, I’m gonna go with P2 cards

[Andres Baez]

Thanks Ron,
I am working without external hardware. I have all P2 material on an external hard drive. As far a sequence presets I found a “1080 24p” option so I’ll use that one. there is a capture preset (1080 pA 24) but since I’m not really capturing but transfering then I guess I don’t have to worry about this. In the Log and Capture window preferences there is a “Remove Advanced Pulldown and Duplicate Frames” option… do i need to check or uncheck this box ?

I have the feeling I should’ve used the “1080 24pa” when shooting this project. For future projects, should I use that setting instead of the 1080 24p ?

thanks for your help,

[Andres Baez]

I do have a regular (standard) tv set as a monitor.
I have been tryng all but it’s the pixels in the background colors of the image the ones that come out not as clean as in the HD source. (let’s say the background of the image is blue and because of the lighting it looks like it fades to black. But in the standard tv set you can see the lines that separate the different tones of that fade to black. And it’s suppose to look smooth, clean. I’m talking about the background screen of this music video.

[Andres Baez]

Ok here is the deal.. I used compressor and when I put the new 10bit uncompressed clip into a new sequence it squeezes the video to fit the 4:3 ratio. Is there any way (cause this is a music video) I could just keep the 16×9 format ? I dont mind the black bars at the botton and top of the video. I did try modifying the sequence settings and clicked on the anamorphic option but that changed it in my final cut Canvas window but didn’t change at all in my output monitor..

[Andres Baez]

The main HD quicktime clips I have them in the internal hard drive. I’m going to try to make it a 10bit to see what happens… Is it 10bit only or 10bit uncompressed?

[Andres Baez]

You mean dropping the HD quicktime movie into a SD timeline ? I could do that but what settings should I use for that SD timeline ? I’m gonna create it and the I’m going to Sequence settings and there are a lot of options : I think here is where I should be very carefull:

– what Frame size ? Aspect Rsadio ?

– Pixel Aspect Radio ?

– Field Dominance ?

– Editing Timebase ?

– Quicktime video settings/ Compressor ?

Is there any website where I can learn more about working with HD in Final Cut Pro ?

thanks

[Andres Baez]

It’s a Blackmagic extreme card. And I’m using the component inputs cause I,m using a Betacam SP deck (PVW-2800). How do I set it up to do the realtime downconversion? I think I was doing it right but I really dont know.