[Andy Mees]

If you just want to feather a specific edge, or adjust feather controls independently, then you should check out Alex Gollner’s handy and free Crop Filter:
https://alex4d.wordpress.com/2009/08/24/alex4d-crop/

[Andy Mees]

Tel / Harriet

If you do have any problem then try using the Deckink’s composite output for sync into the SP deck’s Ref In.

Best
Andy

[Andy Mees]

[Pradip Patil] “I got another solution from net. It says to remove distort attribute by selecting all the clips.

Is it the same thing as conform to sequence?”

Yes sort of. “Remove Attributes” was a great trick for fixing these kinds of issues but “Conform to Sequence” is not a trick at all, it is a function designed specifically for this situation. You need to remove scale, distortion and the shift fields filter if and where applied inappropriately …thats exactly what “Conform to Sequence” will do in your case.

Hope it helps
Andy

[Andy Mees]

the burden of scrolling back might be alleviated somewhat by just pressing the up arrow on your keyboard … there are some good macro apps out there too if the extra keypress is troublesome

[Andy Mees]

[Dennis Radeke] “You can edit Pro-Res inside of Premiere Pro with no problem (which is what FCP converts XDCAM to)”

An old post Dennis, but as it been refreshed then its worth clarifying that FCP does not convert XDCAM to ProRes … FCP imports and edits XDCAM formats in the native recording codec (it simply rewraps those clips as quicktime movie files, doesn’t transcode anything).

[Andy Mees]

>I tried changing the sequence settings to that of HDV sequence but then the video resizes and in motion tab it shows size at 50.
>And when I resize it to 100 it is distorted.
>Also it ads a field shift filter.

You’re almost there … you’ve changed your sequence to HDV so that ot matches your sources yes? So now just select all (with timeline active, press Cmd-A) … then choose Modify menu > Conform to Sequence … everything should be fine after that.

Best
Andy

[Andy Mees]

Hey Jessica

> I don’t know how to make PP recognize the .mov clips that came with the project. Will they have to be re – outputted from FCP with the export tool you mention above?

If the clips you’ve been provided with are XDCAM EX .MOV files then you could buy Calibrated Software’s XD Decode quicktime component for your Premier Pro machine .. that component will allow you PP install to directly read the .MOV files without conversion.
https://www.calibratedsoftware.com/QXD.asp

If that’s not an option then yes, you’ll need to get the clips rewrapped as MXF or MP4 files before you can work with them in PP.

Best
Andy

[Andy Mees]

Do yourselves a favour and check out your Automatic Duck based options, also Calibrated Software’s XD Decode quicktime component.

[Andy Mees]

[David Roth Weiss] “Well, the MXO is the exception. As Shane stated, the original MXO is designed to take the standard computer display output through the DVI port and filter it through the MXO electronics in order to create a signal that closely emulates a true video signal when it is displayed on a computer monitor. It isn’t perfect, but it’s close enough for most — so think of it as tricky way to get around the need (and the expense) of a real video monitor. “

For what its worth, I don’t believe this to be correct. My understanding is that the original MXO does not take the standard computer display output through the DVi port … at least not in the sense that is partially implied. It can do that, yes, and is exactly what it does in “Presentation” mode, whereby it functions as a traditional scan convertor. However, in Mastering mode, my understanding is that its driver is actually interrupting the normal operation of the DVI video out and subverting its purpose so as to provide an uncompressed YUV or RGB output over that connection. It is by doing this that it is able to provide true uncompressed output (not “emulated”) to its SDI, Component and Composite spigots, and further to that to filter that signal through its own electronics, as noted above, in order to emulate a broadcast quality representation on an (optionally connected) computer display.

As far as I can tell, it is this low level graphics system hack (for want of a better word) that is unique to the MXO and is its great strength and simultaneously its great weakness. A strength because its frankly pretty awesome as an 8 bit output device, a weakness because any and every time Apple fundamentally change the graphics handling code, or the graphics hardware itself, then the MXO is at risk of being left high and dry,

Just my 3c
Andy

[Andy Mees]

Double click the freeze frame to load it in the Viewer window, then choose File > Export > Using Quicktime Conversion… and select Format : Still Image, press the Options button and choose JPEG then click OK, then Save.

Hope it helps
Andy