Andrew Rendell
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Well, if you’ve got 24 frames in a second and you make them into 25 frames you are either creating blended frames somewhere or its repeating one, which would be noticeable. I don’t really worry about blended frames per se myself, but rather whether it looks good or not (which I know isn’t a particularly helpful thing to say at this point, sorry).
I’m not sure what to suggest for software as I use a facility (or occasionally a broadcaster’s mastering suite) when it comes time to deliver stuff, so I have access to their scopes, etc, which is the expensive stuff. I’ve seen a couple of things, but I don’t know them thoroughly so I’m not comfortable making a recommendation. Anyone?????
It has worked for me to do a technical test involving a facility to establish settings, then I’ve gone away to do the processing on my own kit (that was a job where I delivered some items for broadcast as IMX files over ftp).
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or bring up the Trim Edit window and click on the side that you want to extend, then it’ll shove the other side along the timeline to make room (I think that’s what you’re after)
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It’ll work but it’ll slow down your system, so it’s certainly a bad idea. Whether it’s a REALLY bad idea is down to whether you’re the kind of person who’ll smash his own brains out against the wall when you get frustrated…
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Re: One addition – when converting the 25fps 720×486 video to 25fps 720×576, I did use Compressor’s Crop function to take off the top 2 and bottom 2 lines (as they had video not needing to be shown).
Did this create an issue?
Hard to say, but probably not in regard to the field dominance thing.
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I suspect you’re going to have to do the conversion again. I don’t understand why your going from 29.94fps to 23.98fps before going to 25fps. Every change in frame rate adds errors, so why do it twice unless it’s absolutely necessary? Do you actually need to have a 23.98fps version (and if you do, why not do it as a separate thing)? Regarding the specific field dominance problem I guess that in going through so many steps, it’s got mixed up somewhere along the line, so I’d check the last one (the one you deliver) then check the previous step, then the one before that, etc, until you find where it went wrong.
Another thing – if you’ve got a lot of this to do, I’d suggest getting some proper conversion software (as a stand alone or a plug-in) to do the job as it’ll save a lot of time and technical headaches in the long run. Ask around or search the forum for advice on which to get, I’m sure it’s come up before…
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I would have lined up the clips on a timeline as Brian says, then made three (or four if necessary) multiclips that have the angles in sync for as long as they stay in together, then typed the V1 timecodes that they stay together for into a Comments column and then chosen whichever multiclip was a appropriate one as source going down the track. That would mean that you could always get back to the original digitised clips, but actually, I think Brian’s solution is probably better.
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I really like The Guerilla Film Makers Handbook. Not necessarily best for some specific things, but great all round information. (The original edition was really aimed at low budget film making, but the more recent updates are much more general).
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I was surprised to see that the current macbook doesn’t have firewire, which would be a problem. I used to have a slightly older macbook which did have a firewire connection and that would run FCP 5 but not FCP 7 (something to to with vram IIRC).
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There’s not really any such thing as basic SD, but a DV file would only have half the colour resolution that Beta SP has (and once it’s gone, it’s gone).
So…. what David said.
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I’ve run some hardware monitoring and I seem to be using up all my RAM (which is, I’ll admit, just the 4GB) but hardly ever getting the CPU anywhere near the top of the scale.
I’ll also admit that “editing = rendering” isn’t the way that I look at it, I’m much more of the “computer and technical stuff is important because of what it enables me to do, but it’s not what the job is fundamentally about”. Mind you, I also think of speed in terms of how much I can get done in a day…