[Austin Reedy]

i.link conversion was on. problem solved. thanks a lot! what exactly is the i.link conversion option for?

Austin

Austin Reedy
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[Austin Reedy]

the easy set up is this:

format: HDV
Rate: 29.97
Use: HDV – 1080p30 FireWire Basic

does that seem right? i looked at the other fire wire options and they’re obviously incorrect. somehow its capturing it as widescreen DV…853×480.

if it is downconverting somehow i’m not sure how to fix that…not my deck and it is confusing to operate as is.

Thanks for your help

austin

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[Austin Reedy]

Hi Gareth,

Thanks for the detailed response. I followed your instructions and still have no results. My text/image was this:

and when I applied the stencil alpha to the text layer the result was this:

As you can see my blend mode is normal except for the text is stencil alpha, and i’m getting just black. Does this make sense to you? Any ideas?

At this point I’m dealing with an older Imac and i’m worried my video card is struggling with graphically intense things. Maybe i should change motion’s settings to give me playback in poor quality?

Thanks

austin

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[Austin Reedy]

thanks

i’m about to check out the tutorial you posted to learn about the masks, because i did try what you said and now all i’m getting is the white text itself goes missing, but the background stays intact. i have both background and white text in their own groups, text over the background. BG layer and group are set to normal, text is stencil alpha and its group is normal also. totally confused.

ill check out the masks in the meantime. thanks!

austin

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[Austin Reedy]

I’m just trying to figure out a worst case scenario work flow I think. If for some reason someone can’t give me any information about what I’m working with. Do I just need to train my eye to recognize the differences in proper and improperly captured stuff, do capture tests and go from there?

I have been told that if I capture 24pA stuff wrong, at 29.97, there is something I can do without recapturing. Is this true? Do I need to run it through cinema tools and apply the 2:3:3:2 pulldown, or is the problem only fixed by capturing right the first time?

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[Austin Reedy]

Understood. Yeah I think I need to take this learning experience and recognize these issues BEFORE I even start. Always ask if not told about these details so its not an issue I feel responsible to fix. I just wish there was some way to find out without having to ask people to provide info they may not have….have been given stuff to capture and the operator didn’t know what they shot…and while i know they should…I just want to figure out a way to do it right without relying on someone who may not know the details i need. thanks for the advice, i gotta be more proactive i guess!

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[Austin Reedy]

I’m not sure I know what you mean. Looking at 24pA stuff through a deck or camera shows up as 29.97, so how do i know by looking at it that i need to do the pulldown…or not if its just regular 29.97?

I can see when there is the problem after the fact, but would love to avoid having to see it done wrong and recapturing to fix it rather than just knowing i’m doing it right to start off.

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[Austin Reedy]

ok, that’s what i’ve been hoping to hear. i assumed it was a frame issue because it almost looks like certain areas have frames slightly apart, but its a good chance it just looks bad i suppose. it looks that way when viewed through the deck, although that’s not a good option because everything looks bad that way. i’m going to pump out a test dvd soon to see how it looks after getting it out of fcp, and hope that some of the issue is resolved that way. otherwise its just got weird color bleed and so it goes…

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[Austin Reedy]

some additional information:

I’ve been trying to read other posts on this topic to figure it out. I’m reading a lot that the camera changes the cadence when the TC changes/jumps. So the shoot was done set on time of day TC so that it would be easier to sync. there are also LOTS of stops in the play, which incidentally causes lots of jumps in TC. So I can see how periodically I would end up with clips that were 29.97 instead of 23.98. Now i’m wondering if even some of the clips that were 23.98 are screwy just because the camera stopped so often. If this is possible, and the only way to really get this to work is to capture batch, that doesn’t really work because there are just so many stops…any ideas?

Austin Reedy
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[Austin Reedy]

ha! well, after the past year of assistant editing with dv project i’m sold. bought a tapeless camera a few months ago and not regretted it.

Austin Reedy
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Austin, TX