Andrew Kimery
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This might sound like a lame answer but if it looks cool it looks cool. Although I think it has been abused way too much.
Like Rob, I tend to use subtle vignettes frequently to try and highlight things on an almost subliminal level but that’s about it. In most of what I do throwing a hard, cheap-adapter-on-a-skatercam-video type vignette isn’t called for.
-Andrew
3.2GHz 8-core, FCP 6.0.4, 10.5.5
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If none of the previous suggestions work try this. Put an HDV tape in the deck, hit play (make sure the playback is of footage and not of an unrecorded portion of the tape), launch FCP and choose the appropriate HDV setup. What I found to be pretty common is that since the HDV decks can send out both HDV and DV signals it’s not always clear to FCP which signal is being sent out.
We do a lot of HDV capture via FW where I’m at and we’ve run into this so often the playing the tape back in the deck before launching FCP has almost become standard operating procedure.
-Andrew
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Yeah, what Shane said.
HDV has such a small footprint that there’s no need for the traditional offline/online, IMO. Which you should be thankful for ’cause those things never, ever go as smoothly as you think they should.
Nick,
That is what I meant to say and thanks for helping out as my brain seemed to fading in and out while I posted. I blame daylight savings time.3.2GHz 8-core, FCP 6.0.4, 10.5.5
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It sounds like you come from, or the person you talked to, comes from an Avid background ’cause FCP doesn’t offer capture settings like that. First off, how much footage do you have and what format is it? Given that technology keeps getting better and cheaper the need to do a ‘traditional’ offline/online workflow.
-Andrew
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Chi-Ho Lee,
Correct, you can keep your TC if you capture that way but then you need to buy a box that can take the camera’s Firewire and/or HDMI out and turn it into HD-SDI and RS-422. Convergent Designs makes some and depending on what features you need/want they are around $1k.Michael,
I too have work w/a ton of HDV material and the biggest limiting factor mainly that it was shot in HDV, on a lower end camera in the first place. Once it’s in Color for grading, or if you set your timeline to ProRes all of the recompression happens in a much better codec than HDV.Also, another downside to capturing HDV as ProRes over FW is that you’ll end up w/a ProRes file that is 1440×1080 w/unsquare pixels (the same native res of 1080 HDV) and that’s a little screwy because, aside from this, ProRes is always square pixels. Color will accept this file fine but it will make your Color renders in 1920×1080 so they’ll have to be rendered when they go back to the 1440×1080 timeline you were cutting in. This can either be a none issue or a headache just depending on what you’ve got going on in your timeline. Finally, recapturing HDV w/frame accuracy has been almost impossible in my experience.
A lot of it also comes down to your workflow. If you shoot HDV you have master tapes you can just put on the shelf. If you shoot to cards you have to consider what your asset management solutions are going to be.
-Andrew
3.2GHz 8-core, FCP 6.0.4, 10.5.5
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Yup, known issue. Hopefully AJA can get a fix out soon.
-Andrew
3.2GHz 8-core, FCP 6.0.4, 10.5.5
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Careful guys. You don’t want to invoke the wrath of ‘new breed’ of FCP editor. 😉
Anyone remember the hornets’ nest Scott Simmons apparently poked w/a stick back in ’08 w/his “What’s wrong with the young FCP editor?” blog post:
https://www.studiodaily.com/blog/?p=466
-Andrew
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Besides rendering also keep in mind that your 2539 x 3425 source images are getting compressed down to 720×480 and some hefty DV compression (I’m just assuming you are working in an SD TV timeline). The reason they look fine in the Viewer but not so fine in the Canvas is that in the Viewer you see the files in their native format but in the Canvas you see the files after they’ve been compressed by the settings in the timeline.
-Andrew
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Like Mark said, this type of thing has happened before, it will happen again and the professional world won’t come to an end because of it.
Personally, I blame Guttenberg for starting this who democratization of media trend. 😉
-Andrew
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When I first moved to LA some of the best advice I got from a friend was that to move up many times you have to move out. I’ve found this to be very true especially w/staff positions where there is no opportunity to move up unless someone above you leaves (or the company expands) and there is usually a fixed pay structure in place as well.
-Andrew
3.2GHz 8-core, FCP 6.0.4, 10.5.5
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