Andy Schroeder
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Thanks for your reply, I tried dumping the preferences but it’s still having the same problem. It’s only on the freedraw mask option. If I’m adjusting points on a mask that is already created I don’t have the problem. Like I said, on freedraw mask the trackpad and mouse both do the draw immediately, just not the pen tablet. But on other functions it seems to work fine. I wonder if it’s because the files I’m working on are in ProRess HQ? But doing multiple effects on one shot, I don’t want to be in a low quality codec.
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More frames per second equals smoother more “realistic” motion in a movie. DVD’s, Blu-Rays, YouTube, and yes even broadcast TV can handle any of the frame rates that camera shoots. Most big budget TV shows and films are shot on film at 24fps. If you want to get a cinematic look use this frame rate. If you want it to look more like TV, 30fps will give you a smoother look.
Broadcast TV that is shot on video cameras is shot at 60 interlaced fields per second. But the fields are only half the frame resolution(you only ever see either even or odd numbered scan lines at a time.) So you get smoother motion but at a lower resolution because you lose half of each frame. 60fps at 720p (which some DSLR’s can shoot) can often mean the full progressive frame and is useful for capturing fast action like sports, or filming at “high speed” so you can slow down the footage later on but keep the smoothness and full resolution while in slow motion.
Whether you want to use that camera for home or professional use the frame rates that it shoots are all valid and can be shown on almost any video players. -
If you shoot at 30p then import that footage into a 23.98 timeline and set it’s speed to 80% you can get frame for frame full resolution slow motion from the DVX100. It looks really smooth, but it’s not as slow as you want some of the times, cause your really only locked into that one speed to be able to keep the resolution.
As for converting 60i to 23.98 with software or just shooting 24p Advanced, you’ll save yourself the headache of waiting for the software to process it if you just shoot 24p Advanced to start, and the software I’ve seen doesn’t look as natural as the in camera, because the DVX100 literally shoots at 23.98 fps in that mode and it’s just encoded into 29.97 to fit the DV codec. If you remove the extra frames on import you get the exact same 23.98 fps that you shot and not some interpolation of what it could have looked like.
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In FCP you could always import the squeezed footage as 4:3 (which is how it is stored on the tape anyway) and after it is imported go to clip properties and check the “anamorphic” box which will then change that clip into 16:9 for editing and export.
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Not a good deal. The DVX’s are great cameras in my opinion, as long as HD isn’t a big deal for you. For me it’s not, my main video output is the web. I bought a DVX100b last year along with a good tripod, camera case, tapes, few filters got it all NEW for under 3000, so 2000 for a used version (that’s not the latest version the B model has upgrades over the A) is not a good deal. You may want to look at Panasonic’s new solid state cameras that can record HD video to SD memory cards. I bought my camera before that was available, but those aren’t much over 3000 I believe and it’ll have a longer shelf life for your investment.
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Thanks for the advice, as I also said to chadwick, this sounds like the right solution for my issue. The extra pointers you added on are also on a post-it on my monitor now.
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Thanks for the response. This sounds like the answer I needed for my problem. Of course I won’t get to try it out till I wrap shooting in a couple weeks, but that’s one less thing I need to worry about now.
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If you export from Motion, the clip will probably be in the Animation codec and will need to be scaled and rendered to DV anyway so you gan little except having the clean version out of Motion.
Firstly, thanks for your input. But – I also tried this on that last project (as well as having the quality settings in FCP set to “Best”) and found that when FCP goes to render it back into DV I once again get that heavily compressed look (which worsens when you recompress for DVD) and that leaving the motion clips unrendered (and in animation) gave me a less compressed looking final output to DVD and Quicktime. The “exporting” method essentially looked the same as the unrendered .motn file and played choppy on unlimited RT.
If I do transcode the DV to a different format, I thought I might get better looking compression (for the effects and color correction), along with non-choppy playback since the file compressor will then match the sequence compressor. Or does that logic not hold up? And if it does, is there a codec you would suggest using? I think ProRes might be a bit much for my CPU from what I understand of it. -
Thanks for the advice, I’m eagerly awaiting your DVX DVD that I recently ordered.
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“I’ve hoped to lobby Apple on this issue so that they might include a warning pop-up in FCP giving notice that 23.98 FPS capture will result in improperly digitized DVX100 footage but haven’t made any headway and Panasonic hasn’t been able to either- maybe you can help with that.”
I know these questions get asked a lot but I don’t think I’m repeating anything I’ve seen, so I hope you don’t want to kill me for asking; In FCS 2, on capture it has the option to choose “DV NTSC 48Khz Advanced (2-3-3-2) Pulldown Removal.” Doesn’t this automatically dump the extraneous frames on import?
When I use this setting for capture from my DVX100b and then drag said files into the timeline FCP informs me that the file (23.38) has a different frame rate than the timeline (29.97) and changes the timeline to match for me so that I can edit the captured 23.38 footage in 23.38. It looks correct to me, the link below is a recent example of using this capture setting, editing in the FCP suggested timeline of 23.38, and outputting through compressor to a 23.38 quicktime file.
https://www.atomicfury.com/movies/rocknrollos.mov
If something seems amiss with this I would greatly appreciate your input.
Thanks,
Andy